Blanc Burgers + Bottles wins national playoff championship

My alma mater, Butler University, didn’t fare so well in the NCAA championship game on Monday night, but Kansas City’s Blanc Burgers + Bottles — owned by chef Josh Eans and Ernesto  Peralta Jr. — scored all the right points: For the second year in a row, the upscale burger bistro won the burgerbusiness.com Burger Bracket competition.

Fans of individual restaurants and national chains voted on the burgerbusiness.com website. Blanc Burgers + Bottles, which has two locations in the metro, received more votes than such national chains as Red Robin, Hardee’s and Wendy’s. A year ago, Fat City’s Jonathan Bender reported how Blanc also had won the 2010 Burger Brackets competition.