Calling all burger lovers! The Newport Burger Bender contest is back; this year, it is bigger than ever. With 53 local restaurants competing to crown the best burger, there is more than just beef to choose from. So what are you waiting for? Get your taste buds going and start planning your Burger Bender journey now!
The Newport Burger Bender Contest includes beef, non-beef, and plant-based burgers. burgers, runs from February 16 to February 25 at 53 local restaurants.
At NewportBurgerBender.org, you can see a list of participating burgers from each of the participating restaurants, you can vote for your favorite burgers, and you can also tell Discover Newport what you loved about the burgers you tried!
Last year’s Newport Burger Bender Contest broke records, with the total number of burgers served by 42 restaurants reaching an all-time high of 56. Last year also saw over 1,800 people voting for their favorite burger. The 2023 Newport Burger Bender Contest winners were The Mooring Restaurant in Newport, which won the trophy for best beef burger with their half-pound Angus beef patty with Cacoila, port wine cheese spread, fried potato sticks, a sunny side egg, and red Portuguese hot pepper served on Portuguese pop bread, and
The Boat House Restaurant in Tiverton won the trophy for best non-beef burger with Salmon Banh Mi, a Gyoza salmon burger, Asian BBQ sauce, pickled carrots, radish, and more.
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) assisted a What’sUpNewp journalist with the reporting included in this story.
