The 11th annual Downtown Burger Battle may be over, but Downtown Sioux Falls representatives say the trend of brick-and-mortar restaurants partnering with food trucks for the battle is seeing good results and will only continue.
The burger battle first had food trucks appear last year, when two food trucks participated. The first was Covert Artisan Ales & Cellars that partnered with the Windy City Bites food truck, and the second was Glacial Lakes Distillery and Brewhouse, which partnered with the food truck FadeAway.
This year, three new food trucks joined the battle, bringing a diverse range of flavors to the traditional American burger palette.
Glacial Lakes Distillery partnered with Cheezy Noodle to create the “Queso-Birria Burger.” Severance Brewing Company partnered with Rudy Navarrete’s Taco Bus to create “The Spice is Right,” a burger with Tex-Mex flair. And finally, Woodgrain Brewing Company partnered with Southern Perfection BBQ to create the “Smokehouse Brisket Cabernet Burger.”