Burger Boi can’t write, but he can cook a burger

I had a Burger Boi burger and it was everything a burger should be – fatty, salty and almost cooked, like it was grilled. Reviewing yet another not-so-cheap meal, I was hoping I could come up with something critical to say about the £10 American Ox burger as I bit through the bun, meat, pickles and onions.

But it certainly wouldn’t be a wasted ten. It was epic.

The restaurant is across the road and up the hill a short distance from Leicester train station and was recommended to me by my Uber app which had noticed that I had eaten a few expensive burgers recently. Despite cycling through the city centre, he arrived nice and warm, well wrapped up.

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The American Boi is what’s known as a “smashed” burger, so between the two halves of the bun it’s just a mess of deliciousness held together in a nice soup of melted fat and cheese. The first good point was that the beef was well cooked to have a nice crust on the outside – taken almost to searing, but not quite.

The pickles were also taken all the way to juicy, black, sweet-flavored morsels. And the fried onion slices were a little crunchy too, giving the whole thing a great texture. There was some lettuce in there too, apparently.

It wasn’t the biggest burger, but that didn’t matter to me because I had ordered a lot of extras. Firstly there were sweet potato fries which cost £4.25 for a portion which I didn’t like.

I don’t think they were made badly, I think I probably just don’t like sweet fries – they’re all mushy, soggy and fruity, when what you want is salty, dry and crunchy.

So I set them aside and dug into the £2.95 box of ‘onion straws’ which are, according to Uber Eats, ‘buttermilk fried onions in signature dredge mix, Cajun salt and ranch dressing’. They were nothing like straws and the word “dredging” is not one you want to hear associated with food – but they were quite tasty.

I wasn’t sure how to eat them. The first thing I tried was to get my hands on tiny crispy onions, which was like trying to eat leftovers from a fish and chip shop.

Burger Boi included a wooden fork with my meal, but that was no use getting the chips out of the box, even when I tried to pour some ranch dressing to get them to stick to the fork. But anyway, the onion straws tasted great and the challenge of getting a hand made it all the more rewarding when I popped them in my mouth.

Finally we moved on to the chicken strips which cost £6.75 for three. There’s a whole list of options for chicken strips, including buffalo, inferno and barbecue, but I opted for the Korean, which come in a thick, dark sauce and were topped with sesame seeds and small pieces of spring onion .

They finished off the meal nicely, having a nice sweet, pudding-like flavor.

Verdict

The fries were garbage, the box of onion chips was almost impossible to eat, but the burger was perfect. 4/5

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