Byron Hamburgers

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Finding myself in the city centre on a much welcomed day off and in need of food, I decided to eschew my usual independent haunts, heading instead for Byron Hamburgers on George Street.

With 57 outlets across the country and another 3 due to open soon they are just behind rivals Gourmet Burger Kitchen in size but seem to offer something a bit more refined.

I might be vegetarian but when I order a burger I want a burger, not a big mushroom in a bun – that is a mushroom roll.

I added an Oreo Cookie Shake for the rather steep price of £4.50, a portion of french fries for £2.95 and pimped my burger by adding Monterey Jack cheese for an extra £1.25, which meant the cost of the meal was £16.65 in total and I have to say it was worth it.

If you are looking for somewhere in the city centre for a quick lunch or dinner in a nice relaxed setting and burgers are your thing then you can’t go far wrong walking past Gourmet Burger and heading for Byron.

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I remember the early days when Byron was the new kid on the block, did sliders and was firmly a West London thing.

I’m not going to pontificate about burgers – I know very little about them to be quite honest (I remain un-shacked) – but I do visit a Byron at least once every month (actually, I now use it as an incentive to go running) and I just love them to bits.

My local is Gloucester Road, but I like the new Old Brompton branch, a little further away from me, which opened last month.

Let’s see now, I have been to the High Street Ken one, Westfield, Gloucester Road, Old Brompton Road, Intrepid Fox, Covent Garden….

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Byron Hamburgers

So on to the choice of burgers, not a massive amount to choose from, five different burgers including a cheese burger, chilli burger, The Byron and The B-Rex.

Our second burger choice was The B-Rex which basically has the works, 6oz hamburger, onion ring, crispy smoked bacon, American cheese, jalapeños, pickles, onions, BBQ sauce and mayonnaise – can’t go wrong really.

The burgers don’t come with chips but you have a choice of sides including French fries, homemade skin-on chips, courgette fries and onion rings.

The children’s menu is also good; a choice of a burger, chicken burger or macaroni cheese served with chips, plus a drink and a dessert for £6.50.

Four choices on the dessert menu and we went for the Caramel Honeycomb Sundae and shared it between us, which again was massive and very, very good.

The rise of Byron Burger

Meet founder of Byron Tom Byng, one of the key players in London’s burger takeover Tom Byng jokes that he has burgers running through his veins, and it’s probably almost true.

The 44 year old super-fit, handsome Acton resident, who founded the phenomenonally successful bourgeois burger group Byron confesses he must have eaten more than 1,000 burgers in pursuit of perfection and never tires of them.

‘I’ve wanted to be here for ages – I’d call Chiswick the heart of Byron country where customers know a decent burger.’

Though Tom prefers to stick to classics, for the World Cup, Byron will be doing a special ‘ultimate football burger’ with soft fried onions, mustard and tomato ‘to evoke memories of match burgers but way better than ever tasted before – a definitive version.’

And yes, the children do go to Byron a couple of times a fortnight when Tom is doing his inspections and invariably polish off everything on the plate, ‘though we never ever have burgers at home, that’s banned.’

Eagle Radio - News - Camberley's Byron Hamburgers restaurant at ...

Camberley's Byron Hamburgers restaurant is at risk of shutting down as the firm struggles with rising costs and a downturn in trading.

It is one of 20 UK based sites that could be closing.

Information given to potential bidders shows that 13 of its 70 sites are loss-making or marginal, and fall into a category headed 'exit immediately'.

Byron, which employs 1,800 people, closed four under-performing sites last year.

These are the 20 restaurants at risk from this year's restructuring Metro Square Leicester Manchester Corn Exchange Manchester Deansgate Spitalfields Store Street, London Stratford upon Avon Wandsworth, London Westbourne Grove, London Windsor Worcester

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