Congratulations to Wood Iron Grille in Oskaloosa.
https://www.iabeef.org/about-us/new...3/iowas-best-burger-named-at-wood-iron-grille
https://www.iabeef.org/about-us/new...3/iowas-best-burger-named-at-wood-iron-grille
2019 Iowa's Best Burger announced
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That burger looks pretty average that they are holding up. I would prefer a double or triple from B and B to be honest.
It does look a little boring. Maybe the secret's in the seasoning or the patty. A mix of ground chuck and beef short ribs does sound like a pretty good base.
Is it a fan poll or is it some sort of expert beef people? I hate fan polls. Bunch of people who don't know crap voting on Wahlburgers because Marky Mark is cute. If it's real beef type people. Ill trust their opinion.
From the story:
"The designation as Iowa’s Best Burger comes after a two-phase competition. The first phase is all based on votes from the public. For a month, burger lovers went online and voted for their favorite Iowa burger, submitting nearly 6,000 votes representing around 500 restaurants. At the end of the month, the ten restaurants with the most votes are declared the “Top 10.”
From there, three anonymous judges visit each of the restaurants, focusing on the burger patties and scoring them based on taste, doneness and presentation."
That's not a horrible way to do it to be honest. As long as it's not just a popularity poll at the end.
I don't know how official any of these rankings really are...
It also seems that you can only win the award once. So its less a 'best burger in iowa' award and more 'best burger from a place that hasn't won yet'
Go to the Iowa pork producer's website and get the list for the best tenderloin, the Lucky pig in Ogden has won it, the GridIron in Webster City, some place down in Dunlap, and many others
Hoped first time was a fluke, everyone has a bad day. Second time was actually worse. Got a few drinks at the bar, asked them if they could transfer my tab to the table, no problem. Food orders were messed up, not too bad, but we didn't have anything that should have been difficult. The server also set our food tray on another group's table and they thought it was theirs. There were open tables, could have brought a tray stand, but no, she sets it on a six top where 4 people are seated with our 4 meals, of course they thought it was theirs. When she stops to drop off our checks, she actually had a tray of dirty dishes and set it on our table to hand us our checks. No drinks from the bar on my check (with the tab I opened on my card). I ask about them and she says she'd check. I waited for a new check, nothing. Finally wave her down and her response was along the lines of "I don't know, you'll have to check with the bar". Fine, go to the bar, bartender can't find my open tab and says "I'll just have to close it out at the end of the night"
No receipt, no clue how much they were going to charge, nothing. The bartender seemed too bothered by me wanting to pay my bill to figure it out. Needless to say, I was watching my card statement for the next few days expecting a huge bar bill. Instead I apparently only got charged for one or maybe 2 drinks, not sure how much they cost but I should have been charged more than $9.50 for what we drank before dinner. I don't like not paying for what I consumed, so feel guilty about it, which is probably the worst part, I feel guilty about them not charging me properly because of their terrible service.
I wouldn't go so far as calling it the *only* thing. Obviously, I'm biased and love Iowa City, in general. But Short's has a slew of great burgers, of which the Dundee is one. My Short's rotation consists of the Quimby, Baxter, Burnside, Dundee, Gravity and Defiance. Quimby and Defiance are probably the two I get most often (bleu cheese is my preferred cheese on a burger, and both come with bacon).
Iowa City also has a killer authentic Mexican restaurant, La Regia. Best tacos in town, and it's not close.
