Best burger kits delivered directly to your door
BY PALOMA LACY
The closure of restaurants to in-dining customers for much of the past year has been hugely disappointing.
With a good number even closed for takeaway and travel restrictions preventing some people from using the click and collect option from favourite eateries, the rise and rise of the restaurant box has seemed for many, like manna from heaven.
What’s not to love about top quality food sent from a restaurant, directly to your door?
It’s almost difficult to believe you can create a restaurant finish from the comfort of your own home but near as damn it, you can.
Starting with the same top-notch ingredients, all that’s generally involved is perhaps a few finishing touches and a small amount of cooking – all with the assistance of step-by-step instructions.
The humble burger comes out pretty well in the restaurant box test and pretty handy that it’s one of those dishes that most miss.
Here’s South London Press’s Top Burger Restaurant Kits to cook from home, all comes with more than a little guidance from the experts.
First up is plant-based Neat Burger, which has a rather famous major shareholder, F1 star and dedicated vegan, Lewis Hamilton.
For those unable to get to two of its three central London restaurants currently open and not close enough to qualify for delivery, the at home option will do the trick nicely.
So many company slogans take a lot of believing but not in this case – ‘full flavour game changer’ is right on the money.
The tastiest vegan burger I’ve tried yet and one bite proves the mission statement, ‘to convert meat eaters’.
Neat Burgers can easily do just that – smoky flavours, charred to a juicy finish, it’s easy to cook – just three minutes – and assemble from home.
Two 1/8 lb juicy signature vegan neat patties, in a soft flour bun, the fresh flavours of lettuce, tomato, pickles, Violife cheese and grilled onions really complement our secret neat sauce.
Priced £19.99 and available nationwide. www.restaurantkitsuk.com
Black Bear Burgers often ranks top of London’s best burgers list.
Starting as the ultimate street food venture, it moved into the sit down restaurant market two years ago, setting up in Brixton Village.
But needs must and not content to serve local communities surrounding its Brixton and Shoreditch restaurants, the nationwide delivery kit has proved popular in lockdown.
Last orders are noon Wednesday for a Friday delivery – nice way to start the weekend.
Double Black Bear Burgers and Beef Dripping fries kit that serves two or burgers served with poutine – or for the uninitiated chips and gravy done Canadian style.
In fact the whole concept hails from time the owners spent travelling in Canada.
Each kit will set you back around £25.00.
This lot also serve a mean sausage breakfast muffin – you know the sort made famous by the golden arches but this one comes minus egg, with slices of onion and slice of cheese.
www.blackbearburger.com/shop-products/
It’s easy to think you’ve discovered the perfect burger but before too long, another rears its head and captures your heart or should that be stomach.
Burger & Beyond has taken the humble burger to another level, turning it into something that looks and tastes rather decadent and Bougie Burger is a case in point.
A 35-day aged minced beef blend patty sits snuggly on a demi brioche bun and topped with double American cheese, marrownaise, steak sauce, beef fat onions and pickled onions.
Serves four – £25.00.
We know by looking at restaurant menus that chicken burgers are feeling the love just as much as their beef counterparts.
This one is a particular favourite – chicken thigh meat, dipped in buttermilk and dipped in a breading mix, doused in miso maple butter, piled high with house pickles and ranch sauce, and sandwiched between a demi brioche bun.
Patty & Bun brings together some of London’s finest producers – meat from HG Walter and bread from Bread Ahead.
Ari Gold Cheeseburger comes with detailed instructions – add salt liberally to the patty and fry for four minutes each side for ‘pink ‘n’ juicy’.
Next, build the burger and layer the top bun with ketchup, Baby Gem lettuce, a slice or two of tomato, beef patty with cheese.
Take the top bun and add smoky mayonnaise and pickled onions.
The secret here is in the detail and the customers’ ability to follow instructions carefully.
For those struggling, there are ‘how to videos’ available on the restaurant’s Instagram.
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