The readers of The Augusta Chronicle have spoken and picked the Sports Center as the best restaurant in the Augusta area to get a hamburger with 437 votes.

Two other downtown restaurant favorites received the second and third highest number of votes − Farmhaus Burger, with 224 votes, and Whiskey Bar, with 147.

Two restaurants with a long history of serving burgers finished in fourth and fifth place: Gary's Hamburgers with 107, and Sno-Cap Drive-in with 58 votes. Rounding out the list are Rally Point Grille in Evans, 20, Knuckle Sandwiches on Broad Street, 13, and Bravo Burger, a newly opened restaurant in Hephzibah, eight.

The Sports Center has been a downtown Augusta favorite for more than 50 years. And, according to The Chronicle archives, this isn't the first time a local poll has pu

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