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In the same week that one in five GBKs are to close, another street food pop-up has revealed plans to open its first bricks and mortar restaurant. Burger & Beyond (what else?) will open in Shoreditch (where else?) next month. The 75-cover restaurant will feature an expanded menu, working in new dishes to bolster the […]
Burger chain Gourmet Burger Kitchen has become the latest restaurant brand to face speculation as to its future. GBK, which is owned by South African company Famous Brands, is believed to have appointed Deloitte to help reduce rents at sites, and possibly close some locations, according to The Sunday Times. The move may result in a […]
Florentine, a new all-day dining restaurant and cocktail bar opposite Lambeth North tube station, has launched London’s biggest beef burger. Not for the faint-hearted, the Herculean Burger feeds 4-6 people, weighs 2kg, and is priced at £55. Created by head chef Ryan Matheson, the patty is made from 1kg of 100 per cent British beef from Derby […]
MEATliquor, the rock’n’roll burger chain, is opening its 12th site inside the revamped Queens ice rink in Queensway on May 5. Queens Skate Bowl is the only ice rink in central London, and also has 12 bowling lanes. MEATliquor is moving in after a nine-month refurb, and includes a diner seating 80 and a large bar area […]
Australian-style burger café Ben’s Canteen has raised more than £400,000 in a crowdfunding campaign towards an ambitious expansion programme from its Battersea base. Ben Walton opened the original café in 2011, adding a branch in nearby Earlsfield in 2015. The next phase begins with a high-profile branch at the new Battersea Power Station development in September, the […]
Here’s a prize that readers can really get their (ahem) claws into. We’ve teamed up with crab specialists CLAW to offer one lucky reader (and three of their friends!) the chance to win burgers and beers at the pop-up’s latest residency – The Hat & Tun pub in Farringdon. The prize includes one CLAW burger […]
Mushrooming dude food chain MEATLiquor – once memorably described by a Harden’s reporter as being “like a cross between a divey biker bar and a branch of Hollisters” – is to open a branch at Boxpark Croydon next year. Like Shoreditch’s Boxpark (a mix of retail outlets and restaurants), Croydon’s will be set within disused […]
Avid readers will have been holding their breath, conscious that the ‘The Slider Decider‘ – a contest to find London’s best mini burger chef – was held at Docklands gastropub The Gun last night (4 June). Well, now you can stop turning blue -Marylebone’s new Peruvian restaurant Pachamama and its chef Adam Rawson s now undisputed […]
As the General Election approaches Hackney hipster hangout The Cat and Mutton on Broadway Market is offering people the chance to vote on an issue they can really get stuck into: Free wings vs free burgers. In the run up to the election diners will be able to vote for their favourite snack – whichever wins the […]
Yet another gourmet burger brand is pitching up in the capital, arriving in Fitzrovia’s Percy Street straight from Paris on 10 March. With the other existing branches of Big Fernand being in Lille and Lyons, London must have seemed an obvious next step. To celebrate the launch the restaurant will hand out 100 free hamburgés daily to the most […]
