We're on a mission to find the manliest restaurant in America, and you're going to help us. Every day this week, we're presenting drool-inducing chow bunkers from the four regions of our proud nation (South, Northeast, Midwest and West) for a total of 20 nominees.

Who decides which restaurant is the manliest? You do. Vote here for which one makes you want to dislodge your jaw like a python.

We also want to hear which joints you think we missed. Leave your suggestions in the comments. Next week, we're going to award one restaurant with Asylum's Manliest Restaurant Award. And then this argument will be over. Vote now, vote often, do your duty.

1. Manly Restaurant Nominee: Holeman & Finch

Location: Atlanta
Award: Best Burger You're Likely to Eat
Let's glance over the excellent range of booze, the meat hanging from the ceilings, or the pork belly sandwich and get to what makes the ATL legend truly special: Every night at 10 p.m. on the dot, they serve out 30 and only 30 burgers to whoever is lucky enough to get one. What makes them so special? Only a select few will ever know ...
Jimmy Sobeck of Eat It, Atlanta says: "When the incredible mixologist who makes the best Old Fashioned in town gets on the megaphone to announce Burger Time, everyone starts drooling like the entire restaurant is a Pavlovian experiment."

2. Manly Restaurant Nominee: Louis Lunch

Location: New Haven, Conn.
Award: Best Example of Basic Burger Perfection
Louis Lunch was making burgers before man flew, drove or ate salads. There's meat. There's bread. There is no ketchup. Just a celebration of the simple joys of charred ground beef. If this burger was good enough for Granddad, it's more than you deserve, Sally.
Streeter Seidell of Streeterseidell.com writes: "They celebrate meat. The burgers are cooked on these vertical gas stoves that they've had since forever, on toasted white bread and bloody as hell."


To see more of our nominations, continue reading after the jump.

3. Manly Restaurant Nominee: The Buckhorn Exchange
Location: Denver
Award: Biggest, Bestest Balls
It's the oldest restaurant in Denver and is possession of Colorado Liquor License No.1. You may want to consult the extensive whiskey list before you feast on elk, buffalo, yak and Rocky Mountain oysters. What are those? Eat them. Then be strong, and virile, like bull.
Tucker Shaw of The Denver Post says: "Over 500 animal heads line the walls, all but guaranteeing that the meat you're eating is watching you chow."

4. Manly Restaurant Nominee: Michael's Hawaiian Foods

Location: The Big Island, Hawaii
Award: Best BBQ-pocalypse
In Hemingway's classic book "The Old Man and the Sea," an aged, wise angler engages in mortal combat with a marlin, a beast of the sea. Michael, on the other hand, just smokes the sucker. Simple. Whatever swims or gallops is subject to this grill master, and he has the piles of succulent protein to prove it.
Fun Fact: Such is their love of giving widdle piggies sweaty nightmares, this Hawaiian mainstay will show up at your party and spit-roast an entire pig. Sorry, Porky.