Hi, I'm Josh.
I'm Ollie.
I'm Mr. Z.
And today we are on a quest to find the best burger in London.
First place we're going to is my personal favourite.
We're starting on a budget price point, okay?
This, I would say is best value and maybe the best categorically burger in London.
What kind of budget McDonald's is the ultimate budget burger.
I'm cutting out fast food, it's a different category.
The thing is I'm going to go through today just wanting to compare everything to McDonald's.
This is slow food, not processed.
Hey, hey, hey.
Thanks very much for having us man.
It’s an absolute pleasure.
We’re very very excited.
The time has come.
That is incredible.
First up we have the classic cheeseburger.
Cut that in half.
Beautiful.
Cheers.
Gosh.
Come on Ollie.
Oh my gosh.
Very good.
A bit spicy.
Sauce is really good.
It's just a perfect burger.
How can you improve on that?
The ratio of like gherkin to the crispy bacon.
Perfectly smashed burger.
A little bit of crispy onions in there.
And then the homemade sauce, whatever is in that sauce.
Spicy.
Just perfect.
It is very, very far away from a McDonald's burger.
Oh yeah.
You cannot compare.
Well, what if I had something up my sleeve?
What do you mean?
Are you kidding me, is that real?
It's been up there for about two hours.
Pretty sure I got ketchup on my elbow.
This is disgusting.
Get that out of here Ollie.
Shameful.
You know that I think it has been, I'm going to say 18 years since I had that.
Ollie, you just took a bite of maybe the best burger in London.
Okay, how does it compare?
Absolutely incredible.
Why are you going for a second bite?
And now you're going back for that.
What are you doing?
I would say that is about 10,000 times better.
Infinitely.
Infinitely better.
Chicken next.
Bfc, Brodie’s fried chicken.
Look at that juicy chicken.
Eat it Ollie I really need a bite.
Go, go in.
Yeah.
Oh, get that coleslaw.
Get your hands in.
Oh my gosh.
Wow.
It’s nice, it's balanced.
What do you mean when you say balanced?
You often talk about being balanced.
The balance between texture, the sweetness, savouriness.
I'll just say it.
They're the two best burgers I've ever had.
I'm saying it.
Wow.
Andrea.
Yes.
Is that the best chicken burger you've ever had?
No, but it's a very good one.
What's better?
And also keep your voice down because Brodie’s right there..
Keep your voice down.
This is really good.
The only thing that was missing from here was the chicken.
I want it to be crispier.
So when you bite into it, you're like.
What about the beef burger?
Is that the best beef burger you've ever had?
It's between.
It sounds like your saying it's up there.
It sounds to me like he doesn't want to say it's the best because he wants to be Mr Z.
In the top four I had in my life.
What a sweetie! I’ll take that any day!
Okay.
Yes.
Well, me top one.
Gold medal.
Means a little bit less coming from the guy with a McDonald's burger literally in his sleeve.
Finally, the special.
Bavette steak, provolone, cheese steaky thing but a bit posh.
Wow, look at that.
Holy crap.
Wow.
Very good.
Wow.
Holy crap.
I can see why this is your favourite place, Josh.
Just like the quality of all of this stuff.
Yeah.
No the quality is there.
It’s just ridiculous.
As our first stop place.
Not bad.
I'm just going to call it right now.
I don't think you're going to beat it.
Well, very tough to beat.
Let's see what's up.
Should we go try some more burgers?
Let's do it.
Oh man. That's so good.
Brody, you're a magician.
You're an absolute hero.
Round two.
Burger and Beyond.
This is your first suggestion, Mr. Z.
Josh was like, we have to go to no drama.
These are starting point with an eight pound excellent burger.
So how do we follow?
We go to burger and beyond.
We go beyond the burger.
Okay.
Come here and we see how the burger world can be not like horses.
It can be like like dolphins.
Here there is drama.
Okay.
There is drama.
We need to ground it somehow.
We need to compare it.
Don't tell me you have another McDonald's burger up your sleeve.
I don’t.
Please don't tell me.
I'm scared.
I'm genuinely shook.
Genuinely shook.
You have something.
He has something.
I don’t.
Double bacon butter burger.
Oh my.
Crispy fried chicken.
Oh, excellent.
And the double bougie burger.
That's incredible.
It's like a burger shat itself.
Stop.
This is obviously the most direct comparison.
You've got your bacon.
And it's like smashed in the same way.
The burger itself is a little bit pink.
Medium rare.
Different than no drama already there.
Mr. Z's gone in.
Wow.
It's actually good.
Is it good?
Wow.
Is added drama good?
There's a lot of drama.
It's heavier.
Much heavier.
Right?
Oh my gosh.
Much more rich.
Wow.
Rich, rich, rich.
That's what I can say.
The bottom of the bun is literally soaking wet with how much sauce and juice I guess has come out of the meat.
It's got that in common with McDonald's.
As in often the bottom of a McDonald's is soaking in the grease.
Is it?
Yeah.
I don't know I haven’t tried it in a while.
Okay. Well.
No. What?
Oh my gosh.
I knew he had something.
Was that in your pocket?
Do you have another one?
I'm not. No.
I refuse to touch that.
You have three?
You're such an idiot.
It actually looks pretty good.
What the freak is this?
Wow.
Dryer than, I don't know, my shoes.
My shoes are wet.
He's doing it.
18 years of longing.
He spat it out.
I'll put it back where it belongs.
No don’t put it in your sleeve.
Okay chicken next.
Am I wrong or on the menu that it was written that it was fried with rice krispies?
Yeah.
Rice krispies fried chicken.
You got this, theres crispy bits of rice.
That is insane.
Flavour is good though.
Yeah.
Come on.
It's crispy.
Is it the crispyness level that you were hoping for?
Flavours are perfect.
It's crispy. It's nice.
It goes together with each other.
The bread is soft.
It's juicy, but a bit oily.
I wish there was a little bit more chicken meat.
Yeah.
In the batter.
I agree.
I don't think anyone cares.
For the finale.
The bougie.
The bougie burger.
Where do we start?
It definitely feels like it lives up to the name beyond burger.
Okay.
Are we doing this with hands as well.
Look at that extra gravy.
Oh wow ,what are those onions?
Wow.
All right.
Mr. Z, that was a pro eating a burger.
Oh, maybe we've gone a bit too far beyond.
Bougie burger.
It feels like eating a whole roast, Sunday roast in a bite.
It does.
It’s got so many different flavours in here.
Oh wow.
Cheeseburger was actually excellent.
Fried chicken burger, really good.
This one, it's really good, but way beyond what a burger should be.
It sounds like you're all saying no drama over this.
No drama is what it says on the tin.
It's a simple diner burger done perfectly.
I have a feeling the last place we're going to doesn't normally subscribe to the idea
that less is more.
Is that an accurate assumption?
It is.
Wait, so we're going beyond beyond burger.
Yeah.
We're going out of the solar system.
Burger number three.
Salt Bae behind us looking intimidating.
We're not here for him.
We're here for the burger.
Remember that.
Okay.
And why are we here?
For the burger?
There's a test and I passed.
What's this place called?
This guy's called Nusr-Et.
He started as a butcher and then he opened his first restaurant and somebody who's a textile designer called Erdem,
Seen talent in him and expanded the franchise worldwide.
His burgers are in my opinion, one of the best in London.
So you have to try it.
Wow. Okay.
The burger is the cheapest item on the menu.
50 plus.
There's the meat over there.
It already feels very different from the first two places.
I got a special t-shirt for today.
Oh no.
You ready.
Lost touch with the common man.
It's embroidered in gold.
That's excellent.
Oh my gosh.
Wow.
What is that?
Is that an onion flower?
Sea urchin.
That's the onion flower.
Yeah.
Okay.
Incredible.
So presentation here is on another level.
So you have to think, you know, we started our morning with the No Drama burgers,
Which were very simple burgers, you know, very simple.
This is not massively complicated.
I'm going to show you something incredible.
Look at this.
Look how juicy this.
Can you see it?
Beef juice.
Ollie, go for it.
You sure?
You do the honours.
Okay.
Oh my gosh.
Well, you can really see the medium rare meat.
The meat is playing a central role.
It's very meaty.
Because it's wagyu meat.
Oh it’s wagyu.
Yeah, of course.
That's unlike any burger I remember ever having.
It's very unique.
What's the difference between this and what we had?
The texture.
Texture is very different.
Weren't they smashed?
This is like a chunky, thick patty.
Listen to me.
It can go higher because look at this.
These are the same.
But with stilton.
Look at this.
Wow.
Can I just say, I've never eaten a burger before where my best friend picks it up,
And then just like squeezes the heck out of it beforehand.
Are you sure?
It's not like a baby's cheeks.
You're not a common man anymore.
No.
I lost touch.
Oh my gosh.
I just tasted this Stilton cheese that squeezed out onto my fingers and it is unbelievable.
That is like maybe the most perfectly tangy and yet mildly beautiful Stilton.
Oh my gosh.
Can we just compare the size difference of the bites of Mr. Z's bite and Ollie's bite?
I think I do still prefer the first one.
The cheese is so overpowering in that second one.
Okay.
It is, but it just works.
It just works.
Oh my gosh.
Doesn't it work?
It works.
Luke, you need to try this.
This is the Stilton one, right?
Yeah, it's the Stilton one.
Do you like blue cheese?
All in one.
All in one?
That was like a 15 pound bite.
Single bite.
I now understand why you were struggling so hard to articulate the quality.
It really is that good.
The texture is unreal, isn't it?
This place is controversial because this is a 50 quid burger.
And no matter how much we say it's good, a lot of people watching at home,
Are going to understandably be outraged at how expensive this is.
How can you justify a 50 pound burger?
Well, this is the thing, for what it is, as a really special occasion,
Once in a lifetime paying 50 quid for this, I feel like it is worth it.
That's that special.
Is it the best burger we've had today?
Maybe.
Well, that's the second question.
What's the best burger?
In my opinion, I love this burger, man.
For me though, McDonald's, you can never...
Shut up.
Shut...
I'm kidding.
I could not even swallow that.
I think it might be like 1% better than the No Drama burger.
Yeah, it's fine margins.
For me, I think for eight pounds, you get a burger that is 99% as good as that.
He said it.
What?
This is 1% better.
Look lets take price out of the equation.
If all of these burgers we tried today cost the same.
I would eat this.
I genuinely didn't believe there was going to be anything that beat No Drama when we started today.
I genuinely didn't believe I'd still be alive at this stage after like nine burgers.
But I just, I wanted to finish the second half of that.
I didn't want to give it to Luke.
It was so good.
I didn't.
It was so good.
I love you Luke.
Honestly, I didn't want to give it to you.
Thank you.
Oh, wow.
I feel like I should applaud.
Yeah.
He's doing the kind of things that if my daughter does that, I tell her to stop playing with her food.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.