Where's the beef?

The tasters

Operating from the premise that a food critic’s best burger isn’t necessarily the people’s best burger, we decided the best way to follow up Kawehi Haug's review is to find the People’s Best Burger. We asked for volunteers to participate in a blind tasting of burgers from five of the most popular burger joints on the island. The only requirement for participation was that the tasters had to disagree with Kawehi's claim that The Counter offered the island's best burger. She spent two days fielding  e-mails from more than 100 willing beef eaters, and finally settled on five tasters. The Honolulu Advertiser Burger Wars took place on April 2; here’s how it all went down.