Burgie Awards

Join me Saturday November 19th at Magic City Casino for the 3rd annual Burgie Awards. Well known food blogger Burger Beast will be handing out over 20 awards for the best comfort food in the South Florida area. Add to that over 40 food trucks from South Florida, Orlando, Tampa and Ft. Myers; it’s sure to be a fun filled event! Also some of South Florida’s best burger restaurants will be working hard serving up some of the best burgers in town. The festivities start at 5pm with plenty of parking… see you there!

Burger Restaurants:

 Burger & Beer Joint (South Beach)

Charm City Burger Company (Deerfield Beach)

Georgie’s Alibi (Wilton Manors)

Gilbert’s 17th Street Grill (Ft. Lauderdale)

Jr’s Gourmet Burgers (Miami Springs)

Pincho Factory (Westchester)

Quickie’s Burgers & Wings (Hollywood)

Sakaya Kitchen (Wynwood)

Tobacco Road (Brickell)

Food trucks:

 Big Kahuna

Bite Gastrotruck

Catered Bliss

Chamo’s on Wheels

Che Grill

CheeseMe Mobile

Cold Stone Creamery

Cucina Al Mare (from Cape Coral)

Daddy’s Grill

Dim Ssam a Gogo

Dog Eat Dog

Dolci Peccati

Fireman Derek's World Famous Pies

The Fish Box

gastroPod

Grill Master Cafe

Guiseppe’s Italian Sausage

Jefe’s Original Fish Taco & Burgers

Latin Burger & Taco

Latin House Grill

Lemon Man

The MexZican Gourmet

Miso Hungry

Monster Burgers

Mr. Chimi

Mr. Good Stuff

Ms. Cheezious

Nacho Bizness

Nana's Stromboli

The Nosh Truck (from Ft. Myers)

Palate Party

The Philly Grill

Pig Out

Pisano Food

Purple People Eatery

The Red Koi

El Rincon del Coqui

El Rey de las Fritas

The Rolling Stove

Slow Food Truck

Stocked N' Loaded

Sugar Rush

Sugar Yummy Mama

TreeHouse Truck (from Orlando)

Wicked Wiches (from Tampa)

Yellow Submarin

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Cheeseburger Baby

Cheeseburger Baby is the oldest burger joint in South Beach, located at 1505 Washington Avenue.  Open until 5am on weekdays and 6am on weekends, it’s a hot spot for late night, or in some cases early morning dinners leaving the club seen on SoBe.  I made my visit on a laid back Thursday night and was quite surprised at what I found.

This place has a 50’s style diner feel to it, a bit ghetto & cramped with all types of good music playing.  Add to that a really cute girl behind the counter, and I really thought we where in for a win-win situation.  One thing I noticed besides the sticky floors was how hot it was inside.  I thought it was just me but both of my friends agreed.

We sat at the bar, ordered our drinks, and looked over the menu.  We received our drinks in 5 minutes but for some reason our server didn’t come back for another ten minutes to take our order.  My friends ordered the 1lb double cheese burger & a turkey burger, while I went with 1/2lb bacon cheese burger. My burger was 100% certified Angus beef piled high with bacon, pepper jack cheese, grilled onions & jalapenos.  It’s hard to believe it, looking at those pictures, but I wasn’t wowed at all.  My burger was over cooked, tasteless & the tomato slice was way too ripe.  My friend’s double burger was so greasy he could not finish it. Funny thing was, the turkey burger was pretty good, but I’m not going to a burger joint to eat turkey!  The best thing by far was the cheese fries but they could have been easily replicated at home in fifteen minutes!

One thing that really disgusted me was the restroom.  When I walk into any restroom and notice a glaze all over the floor, that means one of two things; it was freshly cleaned or dry urine is the culprit.   Judging by the smell, I knew it wasn’t clean.  I don’t know if they let vagabonds in there, but a dirty restroom says a lot. I started thinking, if the restroom is like this just imagine the kitchen, yikes!

My advice, there is a 5 Guys Burger and Fries right across the street. If it’s not too late, 8oz. Burger Bar or B&B are not too far away.  I don’t know why this place is so famous but one and done here!