XXL Burger, The Broadway Hotel

Big Burger Nirvana found in inner city Brisbane!! The Broadway Hotel at Wooloongabba has a new Burger Bar kind of restaurant along with a cook your own steak menu. The Burger Menu is called 'Oh! Burger It!' and the XXL Burger with double giant wagyu patties would have to be the star. This burger is a giant, so only attempt it if you are hungry.

Burger Porn Deluxe!!

This is the burger that rekindled my desire to blog burgers. Ive been trying to lose a bit of gut, with some success, hence the lack of burgerventures documented lately.
Anyways - Great burger, awesome pattie - obviously too big to fit in your mouth but topped with bbq hickory sauce, well cooked bacon, proper tasty cheesy and some gourmet lettucey mix.

Fantastic! 9/10 and yes I ate it all.

Double Lean Beef Burger - Macca's

Ahh yes, it can be done - if you were ever curious, or wanted a guilt free double beef burger experience - maccas can do a double lean beef burger. The problem with lean beef burgers is that the patties taste microwaved, indeed the entire burger has a plasticy sensation to it - right down to the exactly 3 strategically placed genetically modified baby spinich leaves. The tangy sauce is good though. 6/10

Purple Gorilla Burger, Purple Gorilla Wooloongabba

Back after a long spell I thought i`d catch up on a couple of burgers a ate before my break, until i ate the Broadway XXL i`ll review shortly. I moved to wooloongabba on a contract job after getting sacked by RPData. Purple Gorilla had recently opened up at Gabba Central Apartments and of course looked interesting enough to warrant a sampling of their wares

Taking the reviewers option - I ordered the prize purple gorilla burger - billed as : Prime Beef Pattie, Bacon, Mamma`s Relish, tasty cheese, tomato, beetroot salsa, dill pickle, baby rocket mix and aioli - all for $10.90.

Here is the burger as presented


A close up - i was keen on tasting the beetroot salsa but as you can see from this picture theres barely a smidge on there.


Midway, a flat, lettuce and bready affair
Beetroot on burgers is an Australian tradition ( if you are reading from overseas ). The beetroot salsa was an interesting take, but on this particular day the salsa, aioli and relish were a bit light on, rendering the burger a bit dry. I ate this about 6 months ago - so with a bit of hindsight advantage i`ll rate the burger 7.5 - Worthy of a try and i feel a bit sorry for the store for its terrible location.

New York Burger, Global Burgers, Brisbane City

Global Burgers is a new style gourmet burger chain just opened in Brisbane city. They offer burgers named different cities of the world with different toppings. Being a traditionalist i opted for a New York burger - topside beef, tomato relish, onion rings, grilled cheese, tomato, shredded lettuce and mayo. I was pleased with the option for white or wholemeal rolls ( I opted for wholemeal ) and also the fact that they server beer. The burger was 9.95, beer was about $5 so a pretty sweet deal right across the road from the Casino.


The burgers come on big white platters. There was quite a bit of salad amplitude, this time caused by 3/4 inch thick onion rounds. When I saw the menu I thought there were onion rings as an additonal side but in reality it was fat cut onion rings as burger filling. These rings made the burger much higher than it needed to be, making the burger hard to manouver and sink you teeth into.



The fat cheese slices were awesome, and the bread was moist and soft ( I know it does`nt look like that ). The addition of mayonnaise and iceberg lettuce made the burger taste hungry jack whoppery. The pattie also could`ve been at least half as thick again IMHO.

Overall a tasty burger, good value, and let down by the thick onion rings, patie that could`ve been fatter, iceberg lettuce and a slight excess of relish. However, the cheese, roll, presentation and beer! made this burger very enjoyable and worthy of its gourmet status. 8/10

Hungry Jack`s Quadstacker

After all the press, and against my better judgement, I journeyed out to the sophisticated Hungry Jacks at Herston to meet the GBST boys and to sample the 71g`s of fat that is the hungry jacks quadstacker. 4 patties of beef, 4 slices of plastic cheese, HJ`s fake ass bacon and some BBQ sauce. Approaching the counter I felt wrong, like what I imagine its like for a married man walking into a brothel. All kinds of wrong. What was further unsettling was the disinterest of the waitress when I placed my sinful order. It was all too easy. Below is what I unwrapped.

It was smaller than I expected, a whole heap of fat and lard wrapped up in a small dishevelled package, a proton enegry pill of grease if you like.
In all truth the first bite or 2 of burger tasted pretty good - as you might imagine. Tasted just like a bacon double cheeseburger with the addition of some smokey bbq sauce which was tasty. Laurie ate one of these, large fries and a large coke to wash it all down. He looked a bit green at the end. I had a coating of grease over my mouth and face that felt like it took days to get rid of.
In the end I was kind to myself and pulled out a couple of patties and the bacon and ate the rest - saving myself a few g`s of fat. Overall a pretty bad burger due to the grease that would have sold very well due to the publicity - 3.5/10

Beef & Bacon Burger, Ascot Provisions

Jarrod recommended I try the burger from Ascot Provisions located on Racecourse Rd, Ascot. Seemed like a perfect thursday lunch adventure, and Mark V was keen for a lime milkshake, so we ventured out to try the burger.
The Beef and Bacon Burger is served with onion jam, chips and salad for $16.50. It seemed like it took ages for our food to come out, there were steak sandwiches flying past to tables that sat down well after we did but anywaym the burger hunger greweth until my plate arrived like so -


.A split top burger on turkish bread, heaps of bacon, onion jam relishy stuff, some seasoned mayo, tomato, spinach leaves, cucumber and a fat rissole style burger pattie. The pattie is hard to see underneath everything else.

This burger was extremely hard to pick up. Cucumber does not assist burger cohesion, and i ended up with most of the salad fallen out on my plate. The burger also dripped copius juice so much so that once i had picked it up I could`nt place it back down on the plate due to the pool of juice.

The pattie was the highlight of this experience - a rissole style pattie, well seasoned and cooked. Provisions were also generous with their bacon, and this was also well cooked and not too fatty.
However there was no relishor sauce besides the mayo and onion jam, I could`ve done with some. A slice of cheese from provisions fridge could also have set the burger off. But thats the benefit of hindsight i suppose. Otherwise a medium satisfying experience, top pattie, poor construction. 7/10

Roadhouse Burger - Big Chief Coolangatta

We spent the night down at Currumbin last weekend to catch 'The Herd' play at the Cooly. Sunday post party haze our hungover hosts decided they`d like some Hungry Jacks comfort. I wanted nothing to do with HJ`s, this was before I knew about the new quad stacker on offer - (more on that in a future post) - but thought it the perfect opportunity to sample some of the burger wares of the Big Chief Flame Grilled burger chain that operates 6 or 7 outlets around the Gold Coast. The shop looks like a typical beachside chicken/fish shop selling a complete range of fried foods, but featuring a big Burger menu overhead. I opted for a roadhouse burger, 2x120gm beef patties, double cheese, beetroot, lettuce, onion, tomato on a stockish white burger bun.

The Big Chief RoadHouse Burger

I was fairly under the weather when I was confronted with the burger, but it tasted awesome! The patties did taste McJacky or whatever, but did`nt seem as greasy

There was`nt too much salad to deal with, and there was some tangy light orange sauce that really set the burger stack off. Its very satisfying having a fat wedge of pattie to munch through as can be seen in the next photo

Overall a very satisfying burger experience - swap up the iceberg for some other lettuce, 'homestyle' the bun and put some quality cheese slice in (instead of what seemed like cheap ass processed slices) and this burger could be a contender for the top prize. As it is, entirely satisfying, moreish and rated a solid 7.75. For when grill'd is not greasy enough but you don`t want to lose your credibility eating at McCrappys, The Flame Grilled Big Chief is an excellent option.