Ultimate Burger Guide

Floral Street, London, WC2

Lamburgers. It just doesn’t stack up. However you try and approach it, lamb and burger just don’t got together. Masala Zone is a gem among cheap eats in London, and since they set up they’ve successfully redesigned people’s expectations of ‘going for a curry’. A rich choice of South Indian Thalis that if you have even the slightest interest in Indian food you simply HAVE to try. But burgers are a step too far. Great on value but it just doesn’t work.

Leicester Square, London W1

Not a good day for the chains. Hamburger Union has developed a pretty solid reputation, but it’s only as strong as their last customer experience, and today was a pretty poor experience all round. How any manager can think of getting away with grumpy and rude waitressing staff is beyond me, even if they rely on a casual and not repeat trade. It only needs one sour apple to turn the keg bad, and maybe that’s why there was a chronic inability to get orders right and a reluctance to apologise. In the world of burgers the difference between the well-dones and rares is a gulf and this branch gets struck off the quest for the Ultimate Burger for sure.