Voting in the 2019 Beijing Burger Cup Now Open!
Burgers are big business in Beijing, and the time has come once again to say which should claim the burger spoils. How? By using your greasy little fingers to cast your all-important votes, of course!
This year, we've done things a little differently, launching the poll at the outset of this year's Route 66-themed Beijing Burger Festival (which runs until 8pm Sunday!). Once you get your fill (or not, we won't judge), an even more important duty awaits: voting for your favorites.
READ: How You Will Select Beijing’s Best Burger for 2019
This marks our ninth Burger Cup throwdown, and it’s up to you to help determine which burger brand claims the ultimate bragging rights. This year, our tourney once again sees a tumultuous change in brackets.
For one, 12 of the Top 100 have ceased to be since last year's Burger Cup, including Common Burger @ ARCADE by Hatchery (last year's #12), Stuff’d (#22), Ramo (#28), Tim's Texas Bar-B-Q (#43), and most recently Frost (#81).
But while the dead shall be fondly remembered, there are also 31 new burgers on this year's ballot to stuff our faces with (read more on those hopefuls here).
Scan here to vote for your favorite burger (and share with friends)!
With these newbies in mind, it's your mission to get out there and vote, and it couldn't be easier: We serve you with a ballot split into four brackets (see below for the full divisions), and you order up which burgers advance through the rounds until only one sandwich stands. For an in-depth look at how exactly we count the votes and tackle ballot stuffing (the shame!), click here.
The voting schedule (Jun 22-Jul 16):
- Opening round ballot: Saturday, Jun 22, 11am
- Round of 32: Friday, Jun 28, 3pm
- Sweet 16: Tuesday, Jul 2, 3pm
- Elite Eight: Friday, Jul 5, 3pm
- Final Four: Tuesday, Jul 9, 3pm
- Championship Round: Friday, Jul 12, 3pm
- Beijing's Best Burger crowned: Tuesday, Jul 16, 4pm
2019 Beijing Burger Cup Opening Brackets
- Number in parentheses is venue's final ranking in last year's poll
- (Burger Cup Debut) indicates new to the poll this year
- Asterisk (*) indicates participant in this year's Burger Festival
Bracket A
A Lil' Somethin' (Burger Cup Debut)*
Localoca (Burger Cup Debut)*
Pinvita (Burger Cup Debut)*
40+ Club (Burger Cup Debut)
Cairns (Burger Cup Debut)
La Rosee (Burger Cup Debut)
Signature's, Kempinski Hotel (Burger Cup Debut)
Xuan House (Burger Cup Debut)
Q Mex (4)*
The Great Outdoors (8)*
Arrow Factory (13)*
Let’s Burger (17)
The Butchers Club (21)
Lily’s American Diner (26)
Joe’s Bar and Kitchen (31)
East Hotel (35)*
de Refter (40)
Veggie Table (45)
Panda Brew (49)
Morton's of Chicago (53)
The Rug Café (57)
Grinders (61)
The Roots (65)
The Bookworm (71)
Wolfgang’s Steakhouse (75)
Peking Garden (80)
Park Square (85)
He Kitchen (89)
Flora Steak and Bar (95)
MustGuette (100)
Bracket B
Boxing Cat (Burger Cup Debut)*
Miam Miam (Burger Cup Debut)*
Red Rose (Burger Cup Debut)*
42Play (Burger Cup Debut)
Chao Living Room's Art Center (Burger Cup Debut)
Little Creatures (Burger Cup Debut)
Spacelab (Burger Cup Debut)
Slow Boat Brewery (1)*
The Local (5)
Home Plate BBQ (9)*
Fatburger (14)
Plan B (18)
Paddy O’Shea’s (23)
Fatboy’s (27)
The Bell (32)
Migas Mercado (36)
Lush (41)
Legend Beer (46)*
Root Pop (50)*
Eudora Station (54)
Beer Mania (58)
Burger Counter (62)
Windy City (66)
Blue Marlin (72)
Cafe Flo (76)
CHAR Bar & Grill (82)
Four Ace (86)
O’Leary’s (90)
Dongli Brewery (96)
Shamrock (101)
Bracket C
Crafters Brewing Co (Burger Cup Debut)*
Mr. Eel’s Love (Burger Cup Debut)*
Rodeo Connection (Burger Cup Debut)*
Beer Boom (Burger Cup Debut)
Halo Burger (Burger Cup Debut)
Rhythm Craft Beer (Burger Cup Debut)
W Restaurant (Burger Cup Debut)
Su Zui (素醉) Craft Beer (Burger Cup Debut)
Great Leap Brewing (2)
Cannon’s Burgers (6)
Blue Frog (10)
Hulu (15)*
Katchup (19)
Biteapitta (24)
QS (29)*
XL Bar (33)
Beersmith Gastropub (37)*
Grandma's Kitchen (42)
1F (47)
Irish Volunteer (51)
Café Flatwhite (55)
Picture My Cup at Kimo Kids Cafe (59)
Tiger's (63)
Village Cafe, Opposite House (69)
Park Side Bar & Grill (73)
Angel Burger (78)
C’est la Vie (83)
Burger Break (87)
Meat by Ernest (93)
Rolling Rolling Craft Brewing (97)
Bracket D
Hey Burger (Burger Cup Debut)*
No Diet Bistro & Bar (Burger Cup Debut)*
Turkish Feast (Burger Cup Debut)*
Bistro 108 (Burger Cup Debut)
Hotties (Burger Cup Debut)
Royal Stacks (Burger Cup Debut)
West Gastropub (Burger Cup Debut)
Bergling (Burger Cup Debut)
Side Street (3)*
Jing-A (7)*
3 Little Pigs by Andy’s Craft Sausages (11)*
Caravan (16)
4corners (20)
The Cheesecake Factory (25)
Bodensee Kitchen (30)
Laker's (34)
Waspark (39)
Bistrot B (44)
VSports Bar and Restaurant (48)*
NBeer Pub (52)
Fella’s (56)
Steamrhino Brewery Restaurant (60)*
Peiping Machine (64)
Luga's Villa (70)
Three Guys Burger House (74)
The Cut, Fairmont Beijing (79)
Aurora (84)
Molly Malone’s (88)
Steak Exchange, InterContinental Hotel (94)
BLT American Restaurant Salad & Grill (98)
Time to Kick Back With Last Year's Top Burgers
If you're already drowning in burgers, a good place to start is to begin at the top via 2018's Top 10, all of who are battling it out once more for the Beijing's Best Burger crown:
- Slow Boat Brewery and Taproom
- Great Leap Brewing
- Side Street
- Q Mex
- The Local
- Cannon's Burger
- Jing-A
- The Great Outdoors
- Home Plate BBQ
- Blue Frog
So belly up, chow down, vote early, and remember to follow all of our burger related content via our 2019 Beijing Burger Cup tab here or get to the festival via our handy guide here!
Images: the Beijinger
