The foodie gossip in Edinburgh at the moment revolves around the Burgher Burger guerilla dining concept.
The brainchild of Aoife Behan, who also runs My Homesupper Club, Burgher Burger is a pop-up event that takes place in a different caff with a different high end chef once a month.
The chef’s mission, should he choose to accept it, is to devise a new and exciting take on the burger. By taking the chefs out of their own kitchens and out of their fine dining comfort zones, Aoife hopes that they will be inspired to work culinary magic on the burger, a food staple which doesn’t always get much respect. Hugh Grierson Organic is the butchery partner for the event.
The first Burgher Burger evening takes place on Tuesday 7th February in the Now Cafe in Leith. The chef is Cafe St Honore’s Neil Forbes who, as we have pointed out on the blog dozens of times, won the Scottish Chef of the Year Award at the Scottish Restaurant Awards in February.
Neil’s menu begins with a seafood cocktail before moving on to a cheese and bacon beef burger with crinkle cut chips and onion rings. Dessert is a gooey brownie with vanilla ice-cream. Four bottles of Innis & Gunn beer are included in the £30 a head ticket price.
The 42 available tickets for the inaugural February evening went on sale through Burgher Burger’s mailing list on Saturday at noon and sold out within minutes.
The next event will take place on the 5th of March at a yet to be revealed location and with a yet to be disclosed chef. According to Aoife, there is no shortage of chefs eager to step out from behind their normal fancy kitchens and get down, if not dirty, with some burger-flipping.
If you want to be in with a chance of joining the Burgher Burger secret army then you will need to sign up here.
But remember, the first rule of Burgher Burger is that there is no Burgher Burger.