If you change the 'R' to a 'G' it makes it funnier (Gourmet Burger Kitchen in General)

Member Name: Virtuoso

Product:	Gourmet Burger Kitchen in General
Date:	31/03/09 (187 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Tastes delicious, I'm sure the cows are happy to die for a good cause

Disadvantages: Not much, maybe a tad expensive for some.

Gourmet Burger...is this an oxymoron or am I just a moron? This review will hopefully be able to answer that question, and more!

I have been to several Gourmet Burger Kitchen restuarants, namely two in Bristol and one in London, as far as I can see they all have the same menu and the same decor, so there is no need for me to specify which one we are talking about. Although they do have different staff at each restaurant so that might affect your experience. It would be preferable if all the branches had the same staff of course but I will not be marking them down for this.

What's on the menu?

Umm.. burgers! There are around 20 (no I didn't count them, I refuse to waste ten seconds of my precious life) choices of beefburger and chicken burger with a huge range of toppings sauces vegetables and extras. Side dishes are fairly limited but are your usual selection of chips, chicken wings, breaded mushrooms and the like. There are also a few vegetarian options such as a butternut squash burger, but in my humble opinions vegetarians should stay out of this place as it is more or less a temple built to worship meat. The God of meat would probably be angered if a vegetarian stepped foot in his holy place and he may strike you down, or something like that. By the way I have nothing against vegetarians, my future mother-in-law is one.

What's good?

Personally I always have the sweet-chilli burger, the sauce is inexplicably unimaginably intensely and utterly divine, and then some! Seriously, I have had every sweet-chilli sauce on the market and nothing is like this. I would ask them where they get it but it may spoil the magic when I find out it's made by a bloke called Barry from Rotherham, I would rather just imagine it's made by a hareem of beautiful and naked women dancing around a pot of spices in a tropical garden on a small lush green island off the coast of Thailand.

I have tried the new Habanero burger and I would advise the timid to avoid this, unless you enjoy the sensation of your mouth being on fire, your nose running with snot, and being blinded as you accidentally rub your eyes.

The wife-to-be swears by the chicken/camenbert/cranberry burger, and having had a nibble I can confirm that it is tasty and of superb quality. The chicken is not the reconstituted fatty garbage you get in your typical burger, and unusually it actually tastes like chicken! The high quality theme runs through the beefburger too, which is of the highest quality, not too fatty, and certainly not gristly.

Price?

The burgers are in the region of £7, and they do not come with any sides such as chips. This of course is massively more expensive than I would typically pay for a burger, and it can be hard to get you head round the concept of paying such a sum. But if you forget the word 'burger' and think of it as a 'mashed up steak in a bun' then it doesn't seem so bad. After all, who would begrudge paying £7 for a steak? I personally think that GBK is good value for money, but others may argue otherwise!

Service has always been excellent, never had an incorrect order, and the burger is always cooked as you asked for it to be cooked. Yes they ask if you want it rare/medium/well done, try asking for that in McDonald's and experiencing the stare of death from the oik behind the counter.

Summary: Sorry to all you good McDonald's staff, all one of you.