The Reviewers

We are four work colleagues, Kim, Marina, Peter & Paul. After many lunch visits to Grill'd, somehow, we found ourselves agreeing to tour Sydney to experience the variety and quality of burgers on offer. 

Our aim is to experience a new burger every week and find Sydney's best burger, not that we are likely to come to a unanimous decision! 

After a few weeks we quickly realised that we needed to document our journey if we had any chance of remembering our burger experiences. Documenting our experience through The Sydney Burger Blog also provides an opportunity for  our interested colleagues to share the experience, well all two of them!

In no way do we claim to be professional food critics or reviewers, so we apologise in advance to all the foodies and grammarians. Having said that, we know a good burger (and a shit one) when we've had one.

We will be scoring each burger out of 5 as follows:

5 - brilliant!

4 - it's good!

3 - it's ok 

2 - not good

1 - It sucks! 

To our other two colleagues that are reading this and anyone that happens to stumble across this blog, feel free to suggest a burger place for us to try.

Paul

Burger Personality

Marina - Marina's personality is all wrapped up in this burger box.

And a word from Marina...

Firstly, I need to confess that I am a massive fan of the original burgers back in the late 70's early 80's bought from the local fish 'n chip takeaway. These were the burgers of champions, back when the words, 'burger with the lot' really meant something special - they consisted of a sesame seed bun lightly toasted (plenty of butter of course) a succulent beef paddy, lettuce, tomato, cheese, bacon, egg,  pineapple, beetroot, fried onions all  topped off with either BBQ or tomato sauce (not relish or any other trendy crap you get nowadays). These burgers remain the ones by which I compare all other burgers - and did I mention they were served with hot chips wrapped in newspaper.....and wait for it...sometimes even a well done Chiko Roll. The newspaper wrap allowed the chips to sweat a little but just like a mini miracle they always remained on the right side of soggy yet crisp at the same time. The taste was so good it forced you to keep going back week after week, year after year, despite the questionable 70's decor that never changed no matter how hideous it was, and although the service was always friendly and portions generous they were almost always run by men well past their prime more often than not sporting greasy comb-overs and/or a dodgy moustache. I know this because many were my relatives which doesn't make me biased at all, in fact what it did mean was that I often got roped into stacking fridges or making rissoles before and after school - not very glamorous I realise but there were undeniable benefits of being paid in kind -  primarily the free food. Remember this was a time when (as kids) we would pool our funds with school friends to buy hot chips and a few 10c potato scallops on the way home from school - it was a major investment back then even at that price but it never failed to satisfy.......then back home it was straight outside and on your BMX or roller skates where you worked off the 2,000 calories you just consumed while listening to, 'wired for sound', on your portable cassette player with headphones......how else would you still fit into your  bubblegum stretch jeans ? Ahhhh the simple pleasures in life are always the best !!!!!!!!  Bring on the Burgers.......

Pete - always keeping an eye out for the next burger