I’ve decided to post this because as a treat for my kids who have all variously achieved lots of good things this week, we decided to splash out on a burger takeaway, and it as a huge, very expensive disappointment. We selected HONEST burgers Over other companies that my kids were angling for such as Burger King because I, like an idiot, assumed that the high prices and the meaning of their name was a guarantee of quality. It’s say I have now revised this naive assumption. We ordered a ‘smashed’ burger (a beef burger), a couple of chicken burgers and two vegan burgers and lots of chips and onion rings. Overall the food was terrible. I could not eat my shockingly awful smashed burger; it wouldn’t even have tasted nice if I myself had been smashed, but I am wondering whether that’s how they manage to get any decent reviews at all…? Is it because their clients are normally too drunk to be able to judge bad food for what it is? in which case, what an apt name. It was pathetic and didn’t look anything like the picture. There was no sauce, no cheese, nothing dripping out of it all, unlike in the photo. I wish I’d taken a picture. It tasted rancid, like the very bottom scrapings of last week’s beef. My kids had the vegan burgers which they found underwhelming, but they were horrified as were we all by the really terrible cold, chewy chips, most of which were actually tiny little chippings of chips, not long slender sticks. Literally more like woodchips. (I did take a picture.) The chicken was ok, soft on the inside but it’s a copout to deep fry everything, just to disguise the true flavour. You end up with no flavour but salt and fat. It’s a cheap trick. Onion rings were light and crispy and very bland. After we had eaten our meal which cost nearly £100, we all felt miserable and unsatisfied. I am honestly baffled as to how they have managed to get any stars at all. And it is a real insult to the name ‘honest’!
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It’s been over 10 years and we’d like to think we’re now pretty good at burgers and chips. It’s been a bit of a blur, a lot of hard work, but that’s been half the fun. Good enough just isn’t good enough here. We don’t mean to brag but we’re all about top quality beef, the best potatoes and good times. Don’t just take our word for it though, we’ll let our food and people do the talking. After all, we’re Just Being Honest…
From day one, we wanted to make the best British burgers on any menu, anywhere. So we spent time getting to know the best butchers in London.
And we’re butchers too.
We’ve opened our own butchery so we can make the burgers we’d always dreamed of. Our way. From scratch.
Our beef comes from British native breed cows farmed in Great Britain & Northern Ireland. They’re grass-fed and well looked after with space to roam in the fields during spring, summer and autumn and only see a barn when it’s too cold outside during winter. We’ve also got our own butchery, making our burgers from scratch every single day. See more
