Burgers

• Junk is bringing French smash burgers to Soho

  

  On a time when all eyes are on Paris for the Olympics, one French burger company is making its way over to the UK. Junk is getting ready to open a burger bar in Soho (where Wonderland was briefly). 

  It's not the first French burger brand to try and make a go of it in London, of course. Big Fernand had a few sites around London and are still serving up their French burgers in South Kensington.

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• MEATLiquor W1

  The main West End venture from Burger/cocktail maestros.

• Shake Shack are bringing their burgers to St Pancras station

  

  11/6/24 - updated with opening details

  Over the past few years, Shake Shack have been expanding pretty widely throughout London and the UK, with 15 of their burger restaurants already open. However, this latest branch may be their most useful, as it's the first time they're opening in a train station. 

  The latest Shake Shack is opening inside St Pancras,

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• Salt and its wagyu burgers opens on Leicester Square, but which Salt is it?

  

  Updated 21/5/24 with more information

  There were fanfares and fire jugglers at the grand opening of Middle Eastern burger joint Salt on Leicester Square this week, but a social media storm is still raging as to which Salt this actually is. The OG Salt was a Dubai food truck turned burger business run by two women Amal Al Marri and Deem Albassam. It became a huge hit for its signature wagyu

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• Bleecker Victoria

  Proper burgers from the Bleecker team in Victoria

• Smash burgers come to Queen's Park with Supra Burger

  

  Looking at some of the recent openings, there are a few notable trends around London at the moment. Greek/Mediterranean is one and classic French cooking is another. And then there's the rise and rise of the smash burger. 

  The latest to embrace all things smashed is Supra Burger. It comes from the guy behind rotisserie chicken spot Cocotte, Romain Bourrillon, which is why they're kicking

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• SMSH BN opens on Charing Cross Road with its smash wagyu burgers

  

  London's love affairs with smash burgers continues with the arrival next month of a new burger spot in central London. SMSH BN (you'll see from the lack of vowels that it comes from chef Mark Morrans who was formerly at MNKY HSE) takes the burger into a more luxe strata with its wagyu offering.

  Highlights on the menu will be the Wagyu Cheese SMSH BN - that's double Wagyu patties, potato

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• London's restaurants, bakeries and cafés with perma-queues - the hype is real

  

  Are you the kind of Londoner who spends their weekends and evenings queueing for the must-have cake or burger? We take a look at the places that have permanent queues outside. 

• Temper Burger sees the steak & BBQ restaurant pivot to smash burgers

  

  Their most recent opening was in Paddington and although Temper are staying in the west for their next, it's going to be quite a different beast. They're taking the lead from their cheeseburger taco and pivoting into actual burgers to open Temper Burger. 

  The new restaurant will be mainly about double-patty smash burgers with options including:

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• Patty melts, suet puddings and more - Test Driving the new Hawskmoor lunchtime specials

  

  Hawksmoor has just launched a series of new lunchtime-only specials across all their restaurants. We used this as a handy excuse to go and try them out. 

• Bun & Sum brings smash burgers to Hackney

  

  They're already a big deal in Mile End and now LA-style halal smash burger specialists Bun & Sum are opening in Hackney too. With Bun & Sim's Farbez Uddin recently crowned best chef at the National Burger Awards, this is a pretty good time for their second opening. 

  The menu should be pretty similar to their first opening, so you can expect burgers like their Big S Mac (yes, that's their

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• Fat Whyte Slims is Whyte Rushen's weekend burger bar

  

  27/12/24 - updated with menu details and start date

  Whyte Rushen launched a hugely popular restaurant (and without much in the way of fanfare either) in the shape of Whyte's in Hackney at the tail end of last year. And things continue to change with the restaurant, with it pivoting to a

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• Hawksmoor unveil the Tunworth Royale patty melt and more new specials

  

  Hawksmoor have been doing rather well across the pond of late, with successful restaurant openings in New York and Chicago. And while they're not opening any new Hawksmoors in London (just yet), they have just unveiled a brand new lunchtime menu that may well entice you back if you haven't been in a while. 

  At the top of the list, for us anyway, is the Tunworth

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• Phat Buns bring DIY burgers to Bayswater

  

  Over the past few years, we've seen a number of restaurants start up around the country before deciding to make it in the capital, like Six by Nico or Cin Cin, and now here comes another. Phat Buns can be found all over the North, but now they're opening their first London outpost in Bayswater (taking over from TinselTown). 

  Those Phat Buns are actually burgers, and mainly burgers you customise yourself.

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• Mother Flipper grab a permanent place for their burgers in Brockley

  

  10 years after they first started out on Brockley Market, Mother Flipper are now about to open a permanent burger bar in the area they call their "spiritual home". 

  They're known as serving up some of the very best burgers in London, so if you haven't yet had a chance to try them, a trip to the new place should definitely be on the cards. As for those, burgers, you

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