Sweet Meat

The culinary mavens at Time Out have picked Donovan’s, the pride of Woodside, as the city’s best burger. Even if they’re trying to be contrarian, we at the Bridge and Tunnel Club absolutely, totally 100 percent concur — it’s a very good burger, and probably the best:

The juicy and buttery burger is still made the same way it was when the pub opened nearly 40 years ago. Its loosely ground sirloin meat, topped with sautéed onions, makes it a mess to eat, earning it the nickname “the five-napkin burger.”

The price is also tough to beat. At $5.75 (including fries), it’s also the cheapest on Time Out’s top 10 list.

The magazine has been awarding a best hamburger title for years, but this was its first comprehensive ground-beef survey, said Time Out restaurant editor Maile Carpenter.

“Burgers are such a hot topic, and a subject of endless debate, so we figured we’d settle the score once and for all by eating an insane amount of burgers,” Carpenter said.

Greenwich Village’s Corner Bistro – the perennial winner until this year – didn’t even make the top 10 this time.

“It was time to crown a new winner,” explained Carpenter, who called the Donovan’s burger “ridiculously tasty.”

Go Queens!