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🧭Where: Black Cactus BBQ Brewery
🗓️When: May 2024
🏅Rating: 6.75
🍔 Name: The OG Player
🤑Pricepoint: £14

⚡️The buzz:
* Black Cactus BBQ serves up smoked and aged meats, but are their burgers a bullseye or a miss? Here’s the lowdown:

📰The reviews:
* Opinions are split as usual. We loved the smoky, anti-smash approach but didn’t go for the patty texture, which was similar to a meat substitute.

👍🏻 Highlights:
* Smoked & Savory: The burger had a smoky flavor and aged patty cooked medium-rare.
* Fries on Fire (Maybe): Classic fries were generally well-received, while the loaded fries had mixed reviews.
* Brewery Bonus: Black Cactus BBQ’s residency at Exhale Brewery offers a great starting point for a brewery crawl.

👎🏻 Room for improvement:
* Mushy Mishap: We disliked the patty’s texture, finding it mushy and lacking in crunch.
* Bun Blues: While visually appealing, the buns weren’t always as fresh or soft as expected.
* Missing the Magic?: Although flavorful, the burger didn’t quite hit the mark for memorability for some.

🍔Final word:
* Black Cactus BBQ offers a unique burger experience with a well-flavored, aged patty. However, the mushy texture might not be for everyone. If you’re looking for a smoky, flavorful burger and enjoy bold flavors, give Black Cactus a try, but be prepared for a potentially messy experience. Consider ordering the regular fries and putting the slaw on hold.

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🧭Where: Chucks at Carousel No 23
🗓️When: April 2024
🏅Rating: 7.6
🍔 Name: Chuck’s SmashBurger

⚡️The buzz:
* Calling all burger aficionados! Did Carousel Chucks’ pop-up live up to its legendary status in Milan, or is it just a lot of hot air?

📰The reviews:
* The verdict is in, a smash burger to be proud of. We have a new entry to the top 3! See link in bio.

👍🏻 Highlights:
* Smashing Success: Many raved about the signature “smashed patty” - juicy, flavorful, and cooked to perfection.
* Simple Perfection: Some appreciated the straightforward menu - just burgers, fries, and that’s it!
* First Bite Bliss: The first burgers off the grill were heavenly - hot, juicy, and full of flavor.
* Fries on Fire: Super crispy, perfectly cooked fries were a consistent favorite - possibly the best we have ever tasted...
* Customer Service: The ambience and customer service were top notch!

👎🏻 Room for improvement:
* Double Trouble?: The host ordering two singles with extra cheese for everyone seemed excessive to some, potentially impacting their perception.
* Sauce on the Edge: While some loved the sauce, others found it overpowering.
* Popup Conundrum: We would love to see a permanent residence.

🍔Final word:
* Carousel Chucks offered the smash burger we have been looking for. We were recommended a single patty with extra cheese, then a follow-up if still hungry, we advise the same! If Chucks re-visit London, be sure to check it out.

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🧭Where: HausMate - The Star by Hackney Downs
🗓️When: Feb 2023
🏅Rating: 5.2
🍔 Name: Cheeseburger

⚡️The buzz:
* Great presentation and marketing, but was the burger all style over substance?

📰The reviews:
* A mixed bag, with some serious dryness and blandness issues in the main event.

👍🏻 Highlights:
* Cheese Fries for the Win: The cheesy fries with a proper fondue sauce were consistently praised!
* Chicken Success: For some, the chicken wings were a saving grace.
* Sides with Mixed Reviews: Fries were generally okay, but the cabbage side wasn’t a crowd-pleaser.

👎🏻 Room for improvement:
* Burger Blues: The main problem? Dry, tasteless, and forgettable burgers.
* Blandness Overload: Doubling the patty didn’t help - it just meant double the blandness
* Beer Bust: Beer selection left some wanting.

🍔Final word:
* Skip the burger and go straight for the cheesy fries and chicken wings. The burger itself seems to be a major let down, despite the promising presentation.

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Continuing our top 10 rundown we have at position 8 scoring 8.10/10. Super surprised this isn’t higher! Maybe after the re-rating later this year it will climb up?!!

Our 9th best burger from scoring 7.83/10 in July 2017 a strong score that’s stood the test of time. If you’ve tasted one of these you’ll know 😉
A high end burger with masses of flavour, paired with fried potatoes not fries 👀
Apparently are bringing the burger back to the menu soon! Keep your eyes peeled.

Our 10th best burger!
from scoring 7.6/10 in April 2018
Really missing those nuggs!!!

The double chez from back in August 2018. It was wonderful!!

How happy are you that are open again? We are ecstatic!!!!! 🤩🤪
Here is a double with bacon under the bridge in Aug 2018! N-O-M!

The Jim Bowen - collab with at NBD 2017. Makes my mouth water just looking at it 🤤
2x 70-day dry aged dexter patties, double American, diced white onion and their signature burnt butter mayo 👀

Take us back to offering on at ! One of the best of the day - August 2019

The 3rd awesome burger is from at in July 2018. They also pump out beauties and . Currently unrated.
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Woohoo! 300 followers! Let's celebrate with 3 awesome burgers. The first (one of our first ever) is from when they were in the kitchen at
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Burger & Beyond, March 2020 - Score: 6.4/10
Burger & Beyond has been an ongoing concern for us since we first went in 2017, each time we have been as (3 different locations) we've had a very disappointing burger, even though when visiting separately outside of rating nights we've had great ones! To be fair their score has increased each time; our first visit 2.5, second visit 4.63 and this time 6.4!
These guys make a great looking burger, and nearly everything about the experience it spot on, don't get us wrong! However the burger always needs to shine and if the flavour is not there, and it's not consistent then something needs to be addressed - this is something we're seeing a lot lately. They actually get a lot right it's just that final burger hurdle.
Sides were very good, bangin' dirty tots and fried chicken bites + pickles :ok_hand:
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Bill The Butcher, January 2020 - Score: 6.6/10
Burger didn't really look like the instagram suggests but patty was superb, lovey sauce and pickle game, bun to patty ratio was off - way too much bread.
Fries were suitable diiiiirty (in a good way) however they did (as we find way too often) come out after the burger - not with it or before it. Hot wings were not really hot, reassess your scovilles dude! Ribs were to die for, nom nom nom.
Sadly we didn't have room for the awesome sounding 'Beer battered + fried chocolate bar of your choice! Which included classics like Toffee crisp and Snickers!
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Bleeker Burger, December 2019 - Score: 9.0/10
Well, what can we say? We have no idea why it's taken us so long to rate it but alas, we've done it! The juiciest most consistent burger we've ever eaten, topping our list at number 1 with an exceptionally high average of 9.0, congratulation .
The only 'downside' where the sides which were lacking and a little sad.
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