Guy Fieri & Michael Symon

Miami Beach, FL – February 24, 2012 – For the third year in a row Michael Symon won the South Beach Food & Wine Festival’s Burger Bash, this time a pork and bacon burger topped with pulled pork and slaw. Guy Fieri took home the prize for best dressed burger and Brendan B. Connor earned the golden grill award. Amstel Light Burger Bash hosted by Rachael Ray, presented by Allen Brothers Steaks expanded its footprint under our trademark white tent behind The Ritz-Carlton, South-Beach. There was plenty of room for dancing and for drinking Amstel Light beer—the finest pale lager from Holland, and of course room to sample the dozens of burger creations from the country’s most talented chefs. Since she missed NYCWFF’s Burger Bash in 2011, Rachael Ray was no doubt burger deprived, so the expectations were increasingly high to please America’s Culinary Sweetheart. In 2011, Michael Symon’s burger with fried salami, provolone, shasha hot sauce and pickled onion claimed the People’s Choice award, making the Food Network star and B Spot owner the two-time champ to beat. Once again Michael Symon won the South Beach Food & Wine Festival’s Burger Bash, this time a pork and bacon burger topped with pulled pork and slaw. Congrats Chef Symon!

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