The National Hamburger Festival is gone for another year, but area restaurants are still serving up their best burgers.
A variety of Downtown Akron restaurants won honors at this year's festival:
Best overall burger: Crave
Best traditional burger: Second place, Spinelli's
Best creative burger: Menches Brothers, first place; Barley House, second place
Best cheeseburger: Crave, first place; Barley House, second place
Other area restaurants that won honors at the festival:
Festival favorite: Windsor Pub.
Best festival spirit: Metro Burger.
Best traditional burger: Eat 'n Park, first place; Fuddruckers, third place
Best creative burger: Third place, Eat 'n Park
Best cheeseburger: Third place, Fuddruckers
Best sauce and topping burgers: Steel Trolley Diner, first place; Midway Oh Boy, second; Bravo Cucina, third.
Best non-beef burger: Metro Burger.
