If you go
› Where: 3rd Deck Burger Bar at Pier 2, 201 Riverfront Parkway.› Phone: 423-266-4488.› Website: www.chattanoogariverboat.com/3rd-deck-burger-bar.› Hours: 11 a.m.-11 p.m. daily; happy hour 2-7 p.m.› Price range: Burgers are $12 with a choice of side.› Alcohol: Full bar.
For something relatively simple, a burger can be a lot of things. You’ve got your fat ones, flat ones, overcooked ones and juicy ones. There are burgers on the backyard grill, mass-cooked ones at the church picnic and concession-stand varieties at the ballgame.
There are burgers that serve as a quick meal, and then there are burgers that are the star of the dining experience. You know the kind, the ones that make you launch into your best Samuel L. Jackson as Jules Winnfield eating a Big Kahuna Burger: “This IS a tasty burger.”
We won’t even talk about the ones you get at most drive-through windows, though they serve their purpose, and if the toy is cool, all the better.
Now, if you can get a tasty burger in a cool place with one of the more unusual settings in town, you have a hit.