Reader: Why Go Out for Burgers When You Can Make the Best at Home?

Choosing the Best Burger in Denver always involves an orgy of eating as we try out new spots and return to old favorites, all in our quest to find the perfectly cooked patty. A good bun and great toppings help, too, and this year our Best Burger was the beefy...

By Patricia Calhoun

March 31, 2015

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Choosing the Best Burger in Denver always involves an orgy of eating as we try out new spots and return to old favorites, all in our quest to find the perfectly cooked patty. A good bun and great toppings help, too, and this year our Best Burger was the beefy Ditka burger at Jimmy's Urban Bar & Grill — where, by the way, it's not only happy hour all day on Tuesday, but you can get a fresh-ground burger and beer-battered fries for just $6 all day, advises owner Jimmy Bernat.

And one of our runners-up, the pastrami burger, will be back on the special board at Spruce Tap House Friday, April 3, Nick advises: "Get 'em while they last." You can read many more suggestions from readers here. And then there's this from Jane:

Why would you go out for burgers? Any decent cook knows you can make the very best burgers at home, where you're in control.

Do you make burgers at home? If so, do you go out for burgers, too? Why — and where?

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Patricia Calhoun is editor-in-chief of Westword, the alt-weekly she co-founded in September 1977. She’s been inducted into the Colorado Press Association Hall of Fame, the Association of Alternative Newsmedia Hall of Fame and the Colorado Restaurant Association Hall of Fame. She’s also received dozens of local, state and national awards for writing, including first place for feature writing and first place for column writing with the Society of Professional Journalists. Patricia is a weekly commentator on Colorado Inside Out, PBS 12's public affairs roundtable, which has won two Emmys.

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