BLT Burger

Not the Usual BLT Burger

★★★★☆

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In the middle of my diet, I was invited to join my team's lunch buffet treat after a great success of the exhibition held in the Production Creation Center. Happy was eating in Covotel Hotel Le Cafe which I had never been to before and the never ending Ben & Jerry's 4 ice-cream flavours, plus nice chocolate brownie. Sad was that it triggered my deliberately hidden desire on craving food. So the outcome was I went for a feast in BLT Burger.

We have been talking about BLT Burger for quite a while, it was mentioned more often recently since it was elected to be the Best Burger Restaurant in town by Times Out Magazine. I was utmost excited to dine in this restaurant and tasted the best burger in town.

I had been arguing with my friend that BLT Burger doesn't stand for Bacon, Lettuce and Tomato but something else. Here we stood in front of the restaurant and here came the restaurant's name: Bistro Laurent Tourondel Burger, which apparently Laurent Tourondel was the renown chef who founded BLT Burger in New York.

Another reason that makes BLT Burger appealing is that it could only be found in New York, Las Vegas and in Hong Kong. I personally reckon it was kind of an honour to have this nice burger restaurant branched in Hong Kong out of all the great cities.

There is always a queue outside BLT Burger, and today we also found quite a number of people waiting outside the restaurant. While waiting for the table, I was inevitably behold by the beautiful cupcakes at the front desk. After refusing the bar seating, we were luckily allocated to a 4 people comfy sofa booster seats.

BLT Burger's Interior was just like an American diner, pretty causal with deep wood furnitures. There were not much fancy decorations in the restaurants. The menu was a hard recycled paper acting as a table mat. Drink List on both the Left and the Right hand side. The milkshakes and spiked milkshakes looked particularly good to me, but considering the calories intake to-be tonight, I asked for a cup of warm water instead. There were only 3 combos available, which included the set burger, a fries of your choice and a soda drink. For fries, you could choose Skinny Fries, Fat Fries or Waffle Fries.

We ordered Spicy Buffalo Wings as a starter, a BLT Burger Combo and a Roarig Forties Blue Burger. Although secretly wanting a dessert after the meal, I could foresee there would be no room for that.

Spicy Buffalo Wings 8pcs/$60

Finally I encountered one restaurant offering authentic Buffalo Wings with some buffalo sauces. Most of the restaurants in Hong Kong do not have buffalo sauce on their so called Buffalo Wings. The sauce went amazing with the blue cheese sauce. Adding the spiciness, the combing taste was heavenly savoury! Although the wings and drums were served very hot, we insisted using our bare hands to enjoy the lovely wings.

BLT Burger with Fat Fries and Root Beer $148

The BLT burger - was made up of the following ingredients: 7oz. Grilled CAB Burger, Double smoked bacon, lettuce, tomato, BLT Burger sauce. CAB stands for 100% Certified Black Angus beef burgers, which are a combination of sirloin, short rib, chuck and brisket cut.

The BLT burger was HUGE, not to mention the 7oz. Grilled CAB patty was almost an inch thick! Since the burger was huge itself, it was relatively easier to compress then many other burgers that stacked mountain high. The CAB patty surprised me, although huge and thick, it was very succulent! The double smoked bacon was extremely crispy, however I would prefer a less crispy one. The ingredients was not spread evenly enough, so you could not have all ingredients with every bite. Furthermore, the burger somehow tasted a bit colourless, the BLT Burger sauce did not stand out, nor give a strong taste. We ended up adding ketchup into the burger to give extra flavours. Despite that, I do love the pickles accompanied at side. It tasted nice itself, as well as with the burger.

Fat Fries - came in a tall circular container and the quantity was out of expectation much. The fries was nicely fried to give a golden crispy coating and a soft hot inside. Just the fries itself had already given a really savoury taste, but you could always dip them into the ketchup and tabasco sauce to give an extra edginess.

Roaring Forties Blue Burger

Despite the BLT Burger, we also ordered this Roaring Forties Blue Burger, which was made up of 9oz. grilled CAB burger, Roaring Forties Blue Cheese, Balsamic Caramelised Onions, Mushrooms. To be honest, this was much nicer than their BLT House Burger. The Balsamic Caramelised Onions gave an amazing sweet sweet to the burger while the Roaring Forties Blue Cheese gave a creamy, strong and a freaky moulded cheese flavour which I like. The freaky moulded cheese taste surprisingly matched with the caramelised onions. I could not locate where they spread the blue cheese, so every bite was full of anticipation. The mushroom however was more evenly spread, which utterly satisfy mushroom lover like me. This burger alone gave sufficient taste, thus extra tomato sauce was not needed.

Overall, I was satisfied with the quality BLT Burger provided. However if you say it is the best Burger restaurant in town, I might only partially agreed to that. I personally reckon Burgeroom's Burgers are much succulent than BLT Burger. However I would agree BLT Burger provides way better dinning experience overall, in terms of interior settings, decorations and services. Anyway, I do recommend BLT Burger and the Buffalo Wings are a must try!

BLT Burger

Shop OT301-301A, 3/F, Ocean Terminal, Harbour City, 17 Canton Road, Tsim Sha Tsui

☏ 2730-2338

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Opening Hour: 11am - 11pm(Mon-Sun)