It seems every time i travel to London i eat very well in very nice restaurants, but i always come home and end up watching other people posting pictures of epic burgers and wishing i could try one/all of them. And what bothered me was that, given the choice, would i ever opt to go for a MotherFlipper rather than say, Roganic? If i ever ended up at Goodmans, would i really turn down a fat steak for a burger? Something had to be done…
When this article was posted in the Evening Standard, i started joking with Ant (@gubgub08) that we should eat them all in one day, thus killing all the birds with one burger binge stone. Due to a quiet (unemployed) period in my life i had the time & motivation to do it, Ant had the burger addiction and a couple of days extra holiday and so it was arranged, i would fly in on a Tuesday morning and leave on Wednesday afternoon.
We edited the list slightly, Hawksmoor needed to be booked which was impossible because of the uncertain time schedule, the Burger & Lobster is supposedly overpriced and the temptation to go for lobster was too great. We added Goodmans (glad we did) and MeatMarket (not so glad), and set up an order & travel schedule… 11 hours of travelling around London and eating burgers…
In the end we were able to form a top 5:
- AdCod – This was simply the best and most harmonious burger, everything worked perfectly. A side of macaroni & cheese was also perfection.
- Joint second for Goodmans (best tasting actual burger, personally didn’t enjoy the tomato) and Patty & Bun (this was the ninth burger and i wolfed it down, amazing bbq sauce)
- Honest Burgers – great small burger served with rosemary fries, a dolop of sticky caramelised onions brought everything together very well, the meat patty was slightly under seasoned
- Lucky Chip – a double cheeseburger (don’t know why we went for the double?), great burger & bun but too much sauce, scrapped some off and it was much better…
The other 5 burgers we can’t easily rank, The Ship was certainly towards the top and Meats Market and Liquor towards the bottom. But in any case, here are the burgers in the order that we ate them…..
