For my 7th and final burger myself and wee Coco took to BRGR in the West End of the city on a fine Saturday afternoon in spring time in Glasgow, so naturally there was hailstones. Irrelevant really, but whatever we went to BRGR. I just kind of heard about BRGR from floating about the town, I seen the little red entrance one night on my stoat back into the centre of town from after a few drinks in Ashton Lane and thought it looked pretty cool, then I was at a party and someone had ordered in from BRGR, then one of my pals recommended we went, seeing as I was reviewing burgers. It's dead easy to find, turn to your left outside of Kelvinbridge subway station, walk up the street five minutes and cross the road, you can't miss it. It's red. So upon arrival I was pretty buzzin', I'd eaten dead healthily all week and I wasn't feeling very well either so I was probably just happy to be getting out the house and not to be doing uni work. It was about 2.30pm and it was really busy, I think we got the last table actually. I wasn't too sure what the etiquette was for getting a table- do we kind of hover awkwardly at the door or do we just grab a table? to be honest I don't really think the staff knew either, they sort of pointed to a table from afar and I guessed that's where we were to sit. So we sat down and I scanned the menu and I literally wanted every single burger there.
The Dreaded Kitchen Roll
On the table there was a roll of kitchen roll and I really hate when restaurants do that because it just gives off such a bad impression and indicates that the food is going to be so greasy that you might as well have an entire roll of it as opposed to a wee napkin. Maybe it's because of my terrible experience in Burger Meats Bun in the city centre- which is now closed, I can't imagine why- when they gave us a whole roll of kitchen roll, which I legit needed the entirety of. To accompany our roll of napkin there was spicy mayo and all your usual condiments etc. A waitress came over to take our drinks order, which was when I came to realise that milkshakes were only £2. Kinder milkshake 4 me pls. Disappointing to say the least, where was the kinder at? You realise I go to the university of the West of Scotland where Equi's ice cream parlour is a five minute walk down the road and 'Milkshake Monday's' is a 'ting? Very milky and not very creamy. I was more interested by Corey's excellent choice of holiday juice (Fanta Lemon).Shortly after, a waiter came over to take our order (before the drinks that we had ordered had reached our table) and asked if we would like drinks, which showed a total lack of communication between staff and lack of organisation but anyway, I didn't like this waiter. I had been watching him since we walked into the burger bar and he just came across as a bit of a dick, as though he couldn't be bothered being there at all.
The Burger
Anyway, we just got a burger and side to share- we went for the Philly Cheese Steak, but I was eyeing up the Special O' Cajun and Hot Coo too. The Philly cheese steak came with 'Cos lettuce , caramelised onion, roast pepper, steak, smoked cheese and mustard mayo.' The burger came wrapped up in a wee tin foil wrapping with a BRGR logo sticker on the front, and looked pretty pathetic from the outside but it was actually really good, it was a rump sandwich steak inside the brioche bun and they weren't holding out on the steak. It was cooked perfectly as well, not too chewy and pretty much zero fat. The burger wasn't one of these tall ones that I can't fit in my mouth so biting into the burger and tasting every ingredient mixing together was a rare treat. The combination of the caramelised onion and mustard mayo made it very sweet but I really liked it. A sweet burger is totally different for me as I always tend to go for spicy food, but I enjoyed the change. |
| Philly Cheese Steak |
Accompanied by the burger, we also received a burger 'HAWDER' which was a cool touch, emphasising that BRGR is a Glasgow-based company. A 'HAWDER' is a foldable cardboard holder for your burger so that your hands don't get too greasy and if you're a mingin' eater and try to shove more burger in your mouth than can fit- the 'hawder' will catch the rest. I reckon I'd have been more impressed by this if I hadn't already seen it in a burger bar (best burger I've ever had to date by the way) in Barcelona called BACOA. Sorry BRGR, it's been done before!
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| The HAWDER |
I enjoyed my fries so much at MeatHook, that we went for the same again in here (with an added extra)- rosemary salt and parmesan. BRGR offer a bigger portion for the same price (£3.00), and in this instance definitely have the advantage. The fries were very salty but unlike Meathook the salt was much more evenly spread and I couldn't get enough of them. They were soft, fluffy and not too greasy.
Also worth noting is that BRGR has framed signs up around the restaurant informing us that all burgers with the exception of 'The BRGR' burger are only £4.00 during the week, and £5.00 on the weekends. So for a burger that we were willing to pay the full £8.00 for, only cost us £5.00. However, the lack of advertising of this offer on the website clearly didn't affect the number of customers that day.
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