Best Hamburger


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Le Tub
1100 N. Ocean Drive, Hollywood, 954/921-9425

 Le Tub doesn't want this honor, first bestowed upon it in GQ's July issue. In the wake of the magazine's designation, placing it atop a list of the 20 Hamburgers You Must Eat Before You Die, all manner of bandwagon-jumpers showed up at the rustic dockside bar demanding the now-mythical sirloin burger. (Goobers probably tried to pay with a credit card, too, a no-no at the cash-only watering hole.) Defiant staff and management basically told those folks to go the hell back to Maryland or Pembroke Pines or wherever. After running out of meat, the bar actually posted a sign warning newbies not even to ask. At the risk of permanent banishment from one of our favorite waterfront spots -- hey, GQ jumped on our wagon; Le Tub has been in our Best Of issues for years -- we, too, salute the juicy, generous hunk o' beef, not just because it's damned delicious, but because there are few places on earth we'd rather consume one. Plus, any business ornery enough to turn down free publicity deserves highest honors in our book.