Burger King

Huge congratulations to our new Burger King - Steve Cumper. Steve has won the local competition to find Hobart's best burger, as nominated by customers. The 4 top nominees, along with Steve at RVL, were POP Cafe (Collins St), Devils Kitchen (Sandy Bay Rd) and Budgie Smugglers (cnr Collins and Market Sts), but Steve's proved the champion with the judges - probably helped by the fact that Steve goes the extra mile by baking the burger bun himself, sourcing his special beef and using his own aioli recipe, which is smeared liberally on both the top and bottom portions of the halved burger bun.

Steve has on his burger: the beef pattie, lettuce, tomato, fried egg, bacon, caramelised onions, aioli, cheese and a squirt of tomato sauce. He cannily secures the whole thing with a satay stick, poked through the middle of the upper bun layer, which penetrates through the filling, ending up in the bottom layer of the bun. This ensures the burger presents beautifully and perfectly, and is well-balanced. His burgers stand very tall, and would be totally inedible if you tried to eat them holding the burger with two hands and chowing down into one, like you usually do with a burger. You need a knife and fork to tackle this baby!

So - let us sing, to the tune of Gilbert and Sullivan's operatic song from Pirates of Penzance, Pirate King, "for he is a burger king, he is, hurrah for the burger king, and it is, it is a glorious thing to be a burger king".....