We tucked into a Leeds burger named one of the ‘best burgers’ throughout the UK.
Meatliquor’s cheeseburger was nominated in the National Burger Awards finals, which comprised of the nation’s 16 best burgers. These awards are like the Oscars of the burger world, featuring a mix of independent restaurants and larger scale operations.
The burger joint takeaway and restaurant is based in Trinity Leeds. Their acclaimed cheeseburger offering features a double beef patty, American Cheese, diced white onion, pickles, French’s Mustard, and ketchup.
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The burger is quaint, it looked like (and Meatliquor chefs will no doubt resent me for this comparison) a McDonald’s Double Cheeseburger. It was like the ultimate upgraded version of this classic.
The comparison stems from the fact it looked so smoothly put together with thin beef burger patties. Plus the sauce, slathering of cheese and pickles came together to create that reminiscent sweet and sour flavour for which those burgers are so well loved.
It was utterly delicious, even if the burger was on the meagre side. Their Dead Hippie and 1924 Burgers look like more substantial and exciting offerings.
The Cheeseburger was just a solid burger however, really very tasty with only a slight amount of grease sliding out of the bottom bun. This came with an add option of a ‘mixed bag’, which includes fried delicacies of two onion rings, six fried pickles, two hash browns and a pot of blue cheese sauce.
The onion rings were absolute monstrosities, massive. The fried pickles came in little slices surrounded with fried batter. The hash browns had a crisp exterior with a mushy interior, shaped like potato croquettes. These certainly filled one up, if a little bland with the exception of the quirky croquette hash browns.
The chicken Buffalo Wings came plain with the hot sauce on the side. The wings were cooked perfectly fine but I was slightly disappointed the chicken wasn’t cooked in the hot sauce, which is how I understand Buffalo Wings to traditionally be cooked.
The scorched orange buffalo sauce was marvellous however, it had a real kick which added a zing to the wings once you’d drizzled it over the dish.
The shake offerings also looked fantastic, especially the hard shakes – I had my eye on the Cherry Bomb, which featured Hennessy. Unfortunately, my budget couldn’t stretch to that however. It’s an expensive takeaway - perhaps too expensive - but the burger was really solid.
The bill
- Cheeseburger - £11.60
- Mixed Bag - £8.10
- Buffalo Wings - £11.30
- Total (including Just Eat service charge): 32.55
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