Burgers

• Simplicity Burger, Neil Rankin’s plant-based burger restaurant to open in Brick Lane

  Acclaimed chef Neil Rankin has spent eight months working on the secret ingredients for a unique plant-based burger, which will feature on the menu at his new environmentally-friendly restaurant, Simplicity Burger on Brick Lane.

• Le Bun bring their burgers to Fitzrovia - and a cheeseburger scotch egg too

  

  You wait for ages for a Le Bun burger pop-up and then two come along at once! Mere days after announcing their pop-up in the City (with special mash-ups), Le Bun are also going to be popping up in The Smuggler's Tavern in Fitzrovia. 

  They'll have their usual

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• Le Bun are back - taking over New Street Grill and Old Bengal Bar with their truffle burgers

  

  If you've been missing Le Bun's French-inspired burgers, then this is the news for you. They're kicking off a residency in The City at New Street Grill and Old Bengal Bar, taking over the food for four weekends. 

  The burgers on the menu include

  • Double Double burger - double aged patty, double American cheese, truffle veal jam, truflle
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• Padella and Patty&Bun team up for a cacio e pepe pasta burger

  

  Every now and again there's a collaboration between restaurants that makes you stop in your tracks. Last week it was the bacon naan pizza from Dishoom and Pizza Pilgrims - and this week it's the turn of Patty&Bun and Padella.

  They're teaming up for the mighty

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• Claude Bosi brings his own burger to the Bibendum Oyster Bar

   

  He already has two Michelin stars to his name at his eponymous restaurant and now Claude Bosi is getting into the burger business. If you were watching Snackmasters on Channel 4 last night, you might have seen him recreating a Burger King Whopper in his own style - and now he's brought that to his Oyster Bar, downstairs at Bibendum. 

  The Bosi Burger is an eight-ounce beef patty, topped with Swiss

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• Hovarda invites Istanbul's Akali Burger to London for lunchtime burgers

  

  For just one month, Hovarda in Soho is bringing Istanbul's best burger to London as Akali Burger take over the lunch menu. In Istanbul, the restaurant started as a fusion diner and a boutique bakery but slowly became known for serving some of the city's finest burgers. 

  Every burger comes in an 80g, 160g or 240g sizes (alas it doesn't look like the 800g size is making it over), and is topped with

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• Burger and Lobster pimp up their lobster roll with Champagne sauce

   

  Burger and lobster are getting into the Seafood Week spirit with their latest launch. Feeling that a lobster roll alone wasn't quite enough, they've decided to pimp it up with Champagne. So their new special is a lobster roll covered in a Champagne butter sauce. 

  The whole thing (including fries) costs £25 and is available at all UK Burger and Lobsters now. 

   

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• Patty & Bun set their burger sights on Carnaby

  

  It's all change in Kingly Street this winter as Patty&Bun have picked it as the location for their ninth restaurant, opening in November. So they'll be bringing along all the burgers you've loved from their other restaurants. If you're new to Patty&Bun, that includes:

  • ‘Ari Gold’ Cheeseburger - Beef Patty, Cheese, Lettuce, Tomato, Pickled Onions, Ketchup, Smokey P&B Mayo, Brioche.
  • 'Smokey Robinson' - Beef
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• Brewdog team up with Biff’s Jack Shack to make BrewDog Dalston their first vegan bar

  

  If beer and burgers are a match made in heaven, then vegan beer and vegan burgers must be the equivalent of nirvana for East London. That's presumably the thought process behind a new collaboration between BrewDog and Biff's Jack Shack.

  The two companies have teamed up to make the brewer's Dalston location the group's first wholly vegan bar. So they'll be serving up vegan jackfruit based ‘junk’ food along with an exclusively

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• Filthy Buns are bringing their burgers to Dalston's Three Compasses

   

  Dalston has a new burger bar, setting up shop in The Three Compasses. Filthy Buns, led by exec chef John Gladwell, will be settling down for a residency in the pub following their start on the street food scene.  

  Here's what's on offer:

  • Cheesy House (£8) - The ‘house’ cheeseburger. 45-day, dry-aged beef patty, double cheese (red & swiss)
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• Backyard Cinemas unveil their Capital Studios space at Wandsworth

  Wandsworth gets its own cinema, street food and craft beer complex as Backyard Cinemas open their first permanent space at the Capital Studios.

• Lewis Hamilton gets into the plant-based burger biz with Neat Burger

  Already one of the more famous vegans, Lewis Hamilton is now opening his very own plant-based burger restaurant, Neat Burger, just off Regent Street. 

• Bundance is the new National Burger Day party

  

  15/8/19 - updated with details of some of the burgers

  This year National Burger Day is designated as 22 August - but since the demise of Mr Hyde, who previously sponsored it, we're still not sure if there will be a big co-ordinated discount spree this year. 

  But we do know that the yearly celebration at Street Feast is coming back - and this time it's being renamed Bundance, taking place at Hawker House in Canary

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• Ireland's popular takeaway chain Supermac’s is coming to London

  

  In the past, we've brought you stories about fast-food chains from all over the world opening in London. We've had burgers from America, the Philippines - even Iceland. But we have to say we couldn't be more excited to reveal that one of Ireland's most popular burger chains, Supermac's, is coming to the UK.

  In an interview with the ...

• Honest Burgers have teamed up with Kupros Dairy for the Halloumi burger this summer

  

  Another day, another limited edition burger. This one's the new Halloumi burger at Honest Burgers. They've teamed with British halloumi producer Kupros Dairy for it - if you haven't already tried the Hertfordshire dairy's halloumi, you REALLY need to. We first tasted it at Stroud Green spot Goods Office and were blown away by how

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