Withdean, Burgers, Etc - Restaurant Guide

“When you want a hipster burger dripping in your beard, this place delivers!” – Scott Collins’s “buzzy, vibey” joints are notorious for their “really good dirty burgers” with memorable names (the ‘Dead Hippie’ and its veggie cousin the ‘Tempeh Tantrum’), plus “excellent buffalo wings with blue-cheese sauce”. In early 2025 he opened spinoff venture BLOODsports in a Covent Garden basement (see also), showing live sports and horror films on large-screen TVs.

2023 Review: “Not a restaurant… rather a tiny room with some bar stools along the wall”. Fans say “it’s a ‘must-try’ experience for all lovers of honest, tasty cuisine! The burgers are juicy, and full of flavour from the quality of the meat to the seasonings”.

“Raz (Helalat, of the Black Rock Restaurants group) does it again!” with this open-flame specialist, reborn in “deliberately flash” new city-centre premises, on North Street, in late 2024, and now sprawling over five distinct dining areas and a dedicated cocktail bar. By all accounts the new venue is “fabulous in every way”: “the beef (28-day Irish steaks cooked over hot coals) remains of the highest quality, but there is now a bigger menu with plenty of fish and vegetarian choices” to go with it, and the high stakes relocation has “real atmosphere” too (“almost like a London restaurant”).

“Messy, filling and tasty” – this 14-year-old indie outfit is “one of the best burger groups in London”, with seven outlets in the capital and one in Brighton. It was acquired last year by a new company, headed by original founder Joe Grossman. Top Menu Tip – “the Ari Gold cheeseburger is best”.