So I was going to do my usual round-up of my fave eats of the year and I was looking at my photos and daaaamn I ate a lot of burgers haha so I’ve decided to do a list of all the burgers in Sydney! I’m not gonna rate or score them, but pretty much every burger listed below I would happily eat. Ready? OKAY!

Bang Bang
Come for the burgs, stay for the tunez. New burger creations specials every week.
113 Reservoir St, Surry Hills

Bare Grills
Fat, juicy patties and gotta love that trademark branding on the buns.
Shop 15 / 425 Bourke St, Surry Hills

Bar Luca
The Blame Canada burger is my unicorn burger! It’s roll your eyes to the heavens delicious, ridiculously saucy and has the added bonus of poutine fries shoved in.
52 Phillip Street, Sydney

Bella Shack
The food truck is parked outside Bella Vista Hotel, enjoy your juicy burg in the courtyard with a beverage or two.
13-15 Lexington Dr, Bella Vista

Belly Bao
Ahhh the Baoger, the hybrid Taiwanese bao crossed with a burger surprisingly works and is in my top 5 fave burgers. The bao buns holds up against the juicy fillings and you just GOTTA add in a hashbrown for that crunch!
Hudson Ballroom, 53-55 Liverpool St, Sydney

Bovine and Swine
Technically they call this a sandwich but well, I reckon the brisket sandwich makes the list! If you haven’t had the brisket here before you just haven’t lived! Oh and order the beef short rib and share between 3!
92 Enmore Rd, Newtown

Brooklyn Depot
The burger of the month is guaranteed to be one cray cray concoction with many forms of animals stuffed into a burger.
65 Holt St, Surry Hills

Burgers Anonymous
This burg shop has mighty stiff competition, located across from BL Burgers and just up the road from Guilty. But the bacon here is da bomb!
80 Oxford Street, Darlinghurst

Burgers By Josh
Burgers by Josh popped up at various locations in 2016 and have now set up permanent digs at the Annandale Hotel.
Annandale Hotel, 17 Parramatta Rd, Annandale

Butter
Butter’s fried chicken is off the chain but you gotta try their burg with a generous slather of dashi butter! Check out the sneaker display too.
6 Hunt St, Surry Hills

Cafe Ish
Josh is pumping out classic milkbar burgs, crispy fries and ice cold milkshakes.
105 Regent St, Redfern

Chicken & Sons
As well as wood smoked chicken, Chicken & Sons also does pretty damn tasty burgs and all come with a side of golden fries.
228 Victoria Ave, Chatswood

Chur
Chur is Kiwi slang for delicious, my fave is the grilled beef with blue cheese and onion rings.
48 Albion St, Surry Hills

Coogee Pavilion
The cheese burg is simple but tasty, I particularly like the steamed and then grilled bun.
169 Dolphin St, Coogee

Down N’ Out
Originally a month long popup, this joint hit the big time with their burger of the week crazy concoctions and had Sydney in a frenzy with their Pokemon burgers.
Sir John Young Hotel, 557 George St, Sydney

Five Points Burgers
Go for The Bronx burg with a grilled beef pattie, double cheese, pickles and bacon.
124 Walker St, North Sydney

Gojima
Surprisingly a massive hit with me, sheets of crispy rice replace the burger buns and I absolutely loved the miso salmon sushi burger!
The Star, 80 Pyrmont St, Pyrmont

Guilty
Guilty’s Rowdy Double Jeopardy burg is my second fave cheeseburg in Sydney with crisp bacon and a spicy kick from the jalapenos. It’s not massive so I could probably eat a burger a day and not feel like dying 😛
248 Palmer St, Darlinghurst

Hoost
Ok technically this guy shouldn’t be in the list because Hoost have stopped brunch service and not selling this burger but daaaamn it was good! Look at that river of molten smoked cheese!
98 Fitzroy St, Surry Hills

Hubert
The steak frites and the fried cheese Malakoff at Hubert make me weak at the knees but little known fact, they also have one smashingly delicious burger on the menu!
15 Bligh Street, Sydney

Jacks
Jacks burgs are on the small side so they’re good for a snack if you’re in the Newtown area, I particularly love the crinkle cut fries!
170 Missenden Road, Newtown

Juicy Lucy
Ahhhh Juicy Lucy is my number one favourite chicken burger in Sydney! I looked at my uber eats history and basically I averaged one burger a week haha oops but the batter is always so crispy and the chicken is extremely juicy, suh good!
232A Elizabeth St, Surry Hills

Kansas City Shuffle
The fried chicken sandwich on a donut bun is pretty killer, love the slaw.
195 Gloucester St, The Rocks

Mary’s
Cheeseburgers can be a lil squishy but the smoked bacon is amazing and you gotta get the mash and gravy for your fries! The fried chicken burg from their CBD location is a winner too.
6 Mary Street, Newtown

Mr Gee Burger Truck
The Truffe! Each week I wait to see if the Truffe Burger is making the rotation because their truffle aioli is friggen bomb!
315 Parramatta Rd, Haberfield

Papi Chulo
I have yet to try the fish or the chicken burgs here because I can never resist the cheeseburger! I mean look at it! How it calls to me! Along with a side of brisket kthnxbai.
22-23 Manly Wharf, East Esplanade, Manly

Pub Life Kitchen
PLK is my happy place, burgs always comes with a mountain of fries and I would like to swim in their gravy.
Lord Wolseley Hotel, 265 Bulwara Road, Ultimo

Ribs & Burgers
I usually get the lamb ribs here but the Old School cheeseburger gets the thumbs up.
88 George Street, Sydney

Rockpool Bar & Grill
Before the influx of burgs in Syd there was the Rockpool burg. With Gruyere cheese and a brioche bun it’s not a bad burg but I prefer American cheeseburgers now.
66 Hunter St, Sydney

Royal Stacks
The Double Stack is good but I love the Miss Elizabeth with truffle mayo! Oh and do yourself a favour and get a milkshake aka a frozen custard.
Westfield Chatswood, 357/1 Anderson St, Chatswood

Bar Ume
The Ebi prawn burger is crazy good but I’m also swayed by the signature Ume burger with wagyu mince sauce.
478 Bourke Street, Surry Hills

The Fish Shop
Dan Hong’s cheeseburger was so famed and delicious that it survived the closure of Lotus and is available at The Fish Shop.
22 Challis Ave, Potts Point

The Lord Gladstone
$10 burgs on Mon and Tues is a winner with the locals, the fried chicken burger is a winner too.
115 Regent St, Chippendale

The Tuckshop
My fave burger out west, The Tuckshops cheeseburg hits all the right notes and the fries are crazy addictive.
78 Glenhaven Rd, Glenhaven

Ze Pickle
Popular with the after work crowd, I always lol when the burg arrives with a giant pickle stabbed in the middle.
6/17-51 Foveaux St, Surry Hills

Merry Christmas everyone! I hope you’re all having a fabulous day filled with delicious eats and spending time with your loved ones!

Thanks to Casino Mike there’s now been a dearth of places open in the wee hours of the night if you’re wanting a good feed with somewhere to actually sit and not just on the kerb chowing down on a kebab. Enter: Big Poppa’s, named after The Notorious B.I.G. track of the same name. Owned by Lewis Jaffrey (ex-Baxter Inn) and Jared Merlino (ex-Lobo Plantation) and headed up by Liam O’Driscoll (ex- Pendolino) in the kitchen, Big Poppa’s is a welcome addition to the Sydney late night dining scene, with dinner and drinks served til 3am every day and even a whole separate menu for cheese!

The food is Italian with about half of the menu featuring cheese so of course Bianca and I start with the Burrata ($21), fresh Italian cheese made from mozzarella and cream. The entire pouch of cheese is mozzarella cheese you guys! And filled with stracciatella and cream! What’s not to love??? Stab the burrata open and watch with delight as the innards smother the heirloom tomatoes, fig vino cotto and toasted farro in cheesy goodness. Heh and notice Biggie Small’s face staring at ya on the wine glass?

The Hand-cut pappardelle ($26) is a mother fricken dream, I absolutely love any place that will come over and grate as much parmigiano-reggiano as you please 😀

This is pure comfort food and it feels just so good for the soul! The silky ribbons of pasta hold tender nubbins of lamb shoulder ragu and I just really, really rate this pasta. It is happiness in a bowl!

On another visit with the Sparro’s, we order the Baked eggplant ($27) which is one helluva cheesy hit, there’s taleggio, mozzarella di bufala, parmigiano-reggiano and pecorino stuffed in that baby. Possibly too much cheese if that’s such a thing 😛  The roasted cherry tomatoes and tiny basil leaves attempt to lift the richness of the dish but well, there’s 4 types of cheese they’re doing battle with!

The Flat iron steak tagliata ($36) was hands down amazing, it’s simple but oh so delicious. The steak was grilled to a perfect medium rare and had just the right amount of seasoning on it. There’s also a nice lil salad of rocket, pickled eschallots, Montasio cheese and lemon but well, all eyes are on that steak! It’s juicy, tender and so damn fine it blew my mind.

Aaaand instead of getting dessert we select a few cheeses from the incredible cheese menu- Comte, Gouda and Penny Bu. Cheese averages $10-$12 each and comes with grapes, honey, crispbread and sourdough.  (P.S Dear Santa, Comte is my favourite cheese in all the lands, Love Suze)

Head downstairs and you’ll find cosy booths where you can continue on with more beverages or make your way through the rest of the cheeses available 😀

Big Poppa’s
96 Oxford St,
Darlinghurst

Trading hours: 7 days – 5pm – 3am

So ever since we ate the amazing Kritharaki pasta dish from Broadsheet Restaurant’s popup back in October, Raff, Lauren and I have been dying to visit The Apollo to try the rest of the menu. We start with the Saganaki Cheese Honey Oregano ($17) which arrives all molten and bubbling and is fricken heaven for this cheese lover. It’s oozy, stretchy and that salty sweet combo is just oh so delicious!

Taramasalata Mullet Roe Dip ($12) is, dare I say it, MOREISH hahaha the flatbread was pillowy soft, toasty warm and just perfect for slathering the dip on generously. Not to mention that briny pop from the roe!

The Baked Cauliflower Filo with Anchovy Butter ($14) was tasty and all, but nothing that punched us in the face screaming helloooo LOVE ME. I adore cauliflower but honestly it didn’t need the pastry what with all that flavour from the anchovy butter.

The Kritharaki Pasta Braised Oxtail Tomato Skordalia ($22) was as delicious as we remember- the deliriously tender oxtail buried like treasure amongst the rice-like kritharaki pasta. And that oh so buttery layer of toasted breadcrumbs! Stuff me, roll me and send me to heaven!

The Oven Baked Lamb Shoulder with Lemon Greek Yoghurt ($38/half) is melt in the mouth tender with ribbons of caramelised fat layered throughout. That was one glorious hunk o meat!

Aaaand we got a Village Salad ($17) to fulfil our vitamin quota and chortled at the huge slab of feta cheese on top!

There’s always room for dessert right? The Loukoumades ($12) aka honey doughnuts are the perfect end to dinner. They’re not too sweet, with a crisp exterior and fluffy innards.

It does get a bit loud at The Apollo as it’s mainly groups here, but the service is amazing and the food so incredible that I can’t wait to return!

The Apollo
44 Macleay Street,
Potts Point

Trading Hours:
Mon – Thurs: 6pm – late
Fri & Sat: 12pm – 11pm
Sun: 12pm – 9.30pm