I literally stumbled across this ace burger van. Finding myself wandering around Euston, freezing cold and in desperate need of food I looked up my location on my trusty Burgerapp… Bleecker Street Burger was a nearby red mark throbbing on the screen. Little did I know I would have to enter the UCL university campus to retrieve my lunch.
Bleecker Street Burger is an NYC style burger joint on wheels. They zoom around the streets of london cooking up medium-rare burgers and crispy, salty fries. Look out for the big, black burger truck, as it may be coming near you… at the start of every week the website is updated with addresses of the van’s locations, the burgers are usually on sale two or three days a week.
The Bleecker beef comes from small farms across England, the buns used are light and slightly sweet, complementing the robustness of the meat. In the cheese department they go for tasty American cheese, gooey and delicious. The burgers are relatively thin, and a double can be chosen for hungrier diners. I was a little sad to notice the absence of tomato and onion in the burger, no gherkin either. Bleecker are minimalists when it comes to their burgers accessories adding only cheese, lettuce and sauce to the meat. But what is there is very, very good: quality ground meat, lightly seasoned and a wonderfully light bun.
The fries, which they adamantly insist are NOT chips, are handmade and fried in the van. Normal fries are on offer as well as Angry fries (with red chilli powder), sweet fries (sweet potato) or mixed fries (a mix of normal and sweet potato). If I’d been feeling more adventurous I would have gone for the mixed, but I just felt like normal. They were good, but far from the best I’ve tried. Soggy with a crispy edge they became cold very quickly unfortunately, though nicely seasoned.
There was barely a queue (hurrah) despite the burgers being very popular and the service was very quick and friendly. At £4.50 a burger Bleecker are surely the cheapest and perhaps the best burger van currently on the streets of the capital.