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Brooklyn Brackets: Hope & Anchor vs. Lulu & Po for Best Burger

 Voters said the burgers at Red Hook's Hope & Anchor, left, and Fort Greene's Lulu & Po, right, are Brooklyn's top two.
Voters said the burgers at Red Hook's Hope & Anchor, left, and Fort Greene's Lulu & Po, right, are Brooklyn's top two.
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BROOKLYN — They’ve got some serious beef.

Last week, more than 6,300 voters chose the top two burger joints in the borough in DNAinfo New York’s Brooklyn Brackets series.

The winners?

Red Hook's Hope & Anchor  which drew more than 2,500 votes, beat out Vinegar Hill House  and Fort Greene's Lulu & Po, which beat longtime Williamsburg institution Peter Luger by more than 1,000 votes.

Now it’s time to choose the best.

Vote below to chose your favorite and make sure to check back later this week for our other March Madness brackets: the borough’s best neighborhood bar and top dessert spot.

Best Burger Championship Round

THE CONTENDERS

Hope & Anchor — 347 Van Brunt St. Red Hook's nautical diner has an entire menu dedicated to burgers, with 13 beef burgers and five non-beef burgers that include options like salmon and tofu. The restaurant's triple-decker sandwich, called "Hook, Line & Sinker" is a pound of double angus beef between two grilled cheese sandwiches and delicious fixings like bacon, fried egg, pickles, cheese, sausage, onion rings and tomato for $20.

Lulu & Po — 154 Carlton Ave. Lulu & Po's burger is made on a Martin's Potato Roll with DeBragga beef blend, creamy goat cheese, zucchini pickles and caramelized onions. Serious Eats described the Fort Greene restaurant's burger as oozing with "juices, with a tang and funk from the goat cheese, a sharply acidic pickle kick, and an intense, concentrated onion sweetness — coming together in a most excellent bite."

— Reporting by Serena Dai, Janet Upadhye, Camille Bautista, Nikhita Venugopal, Rachel Holliday Smith, Leslie Albrecht. Graphic by Nigel Chiwaya.