Huxtaburger, Prahran

Huxtaburger, Prahran

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Posted 2014-09-16 by Jess Kumanovskifollow


Sometimes, when hungover or feeling particularly self-indulgent, the only food that will do is a really great burger.

Fortunately, Melbourne has its share of great places to get both a hangover and a burger – and sometimes you can collect them together.

Huxtaburger is such a place, serving both hot burgers and cold beer.

The premise behind the food is great American-style burgers, and they deliver.



The namesake 'Huxtaburger' is the entry point to all of their full-sized burgers at $9, with a salt and peppered beef pattie, mustard, mayo, tomato sauce, tomato, cheese, lettuce & pickles, served on a well-buttered brioche bun - and they have really perfected the classic American burger. I lived in the US for 6 months and this is the closest I've gotten without hopping on a plane.



The rest of their burgers are variations on the Huxtaburger. But although their thing is beef, they've finally added a chicken option to the menu: meet Clair.



The Clair is a southern fried chicken burger with coleslaw and your choice of either regular or jalapeno mayo on the standard butter-smothered brioche bun. The piece of chicken itself is battered in a delicious southern spice blend that isn't too thick, like KFC - although it is rather greasy and looked like delicious dark thigh meat. The slaw is creamy and perfect and can be purchased as a side, which I will most likely be greedily doing the next time I'm feeling under the weather. Be forewarned, however, that the perfect coleslaw makes the bun soggy and difficult to eat.



The only letdown is the crinkle-cut chips: super cute, but super crap. They also have a chipotle-flavouring at request, but the spice doesn't improve an otherwise bland chip that frankly needs more oil and less potato.



A decent drink selection, including a particularly zesty organic ginger beer that really helps add a bit of pep when you're feeling the effects of the night before. I came for the burgers, and I'd come back again for the ginger beer. And more burgers.

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130987 - 2023-06-13 07:23:20

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