Best Place for a Burger? The Misfit!

The beef is grass-fed, it's topped with Cheddar cheese and fancy Dijon, and it rests on toast. It's the popular hamburger served at The Misfit and it was named the best in Santa Monica in last week's Best of Patch poll.

Patch asked readers "Who Has Santa Monica's Best Burger?" and 61 percent voted for the , a chic restaurant with and gourmet bar food just off the . 

No surprise that Father's Office, known for its excellent selection of microbrews and hamburgers, followed in second place with 17 percent of the votes.

"While a bar, we take the food at The Misfit very seriously," the restaurant's owner Bob Lynn wrote in an e-mail. "Serving grass-fed beef is an extremely important part of our ideology of serving clean, healthy and delicious food that can be enjoyed on a daily basis."

The Misfit currently serves two other burgers, each of them for $13 and, for the most part, all well reviewed on the popular directory site, yelp.com:

• Green chile burger: Oregon cheddar, spicy Russian sauce, onion, fried cage free egg.
• Ahi tuna burger, pan seared medium rare, Meyer lemon aioli, avocado.

On Yelp, one user said: "Definitely a bit on the pricy side but the service, atmosphere and 'Misfit burger' alone are worth giving this place a try! ... I had their misfit burger and my friend had their chili burger. Both burgers were on the small-ish scale but what they lacked in size, they made up for in flavor. My medium-rare burger was perfectly cooked, seasoned and assembled. Our fries were delicate, flavorful and packed the perfect crunch."

Review The Misfit yourself on the Patch Places page.