But it has also disrupted the entire restaurant food chain. The MEATliquor Chronicles: the meat wagon rolls on Read moreBefore Byron, Britain’s leading purveyor of premium burgers was Gourmet Burger Kitchen, launched in London in 2001 by a trio of New Zealanders. “GBK messed about with ‘global influences’; that’s not what I want from a burger,” says food writer and burger connoisseur Helen Graves. Within 10 minutes’ walk of the King’s Cross headquarters of the Guardian, for example, there are branches of Five Guys, Honest Burger, MEATliquor and Burger King – and two McDonald’s. All told, Cope estimates there are fewer than 400 premium burger restaurants in Britain.

Source: The Guardian November 13, 2017 06:00 UTC