Meat Market: Best Burgers in Covent Garden

MEATMarket is MeatLiquor's fast-food spin off, set on the edge of Covent Garden on the mezzanine floor in Jubilee Market.

If MeatLiquor is the cool older sibling, MEATMarket is the bubbly, happy-go-lucky little sister. It's small, much smaller than the Welbeck Street mothership, and long and thin, and light, and open-kitchened, and you get your burgers in 5 minutes rather than 45 minutes. I love it.

Black Palace Burger and Poppaz from MEATMarket, Covent Garden

The obligatory MeatMarket sign picture

The menu is a scaled-down version of the one at MeatLiquor, with a focus on double burgers, and hot dogs, and I wanted to give their Black Palace burger, effectively a giant slider, a once over. My visit took place on Thursday night, about 4 hours after it officially opened, after taking down The Big Ode at Pitt Cue Co earlier in the evening. And the whole thing was bloody marvellous.

Price: 

Black Palace burger £7.50. Poppaz £4.00.

Meat Market Menu - Burgers and Hot Dogs

Presentation

Very much in the same vein as MeatLiquor, the burgers at MeatMarket arrive on a greaseproof paper-topped metal tray, resplendent in their custom squishy bun. Cheese, onions and juice slowly ooze down the sides.

Toppings 

The Black Palace burger at MeatMarket contains two burger patties, topped with griddled onions and gooey american cheese. The usual thick, crinkly-cut pickles, ketchup and French's mustard sit on the bottom bun. The onions in this burger are a glorious, they're both beefy and juicy from being steamed with the patty. 

Black Palace burger, poppaz and Vedett beer

Meat:

The patties used have already been well documented in previous posts for the #Meateasy and MeatLiquor - it's the same, perfectly cooked medium-rare beef that is standard across the Yianni empire. Very, very good.

Black Palace burger from MeatMarket - the bite-through

Cheeky Black Palace bite-though showing a bit of pink

Cheeky pickle poking out of the Black Palace burger

Bun:

Again, the bun is the same, custom squishy white glazed beauty that is used across the expanding Meat[insertwordhere] empire. It's a perfect fit for the contents, it's robust enough to soak up the not-insignificant juices, and it is nigh on perfect.

Black Palace burger. No need to add juice....

Accessories:

Poppaz are an extra £4 on the side. They're deep-fried balls of gooey cheese and chopped chilli joy, and they're great (and hot!), but I think they're a little on the steep side at £1 per Poppa.

Overall rating: 10/10

The Black Palace burger gets a massive thumbs up from me - if anything, I like it better than the Dead Hippy (which I liked a lot). It's the onions that add extra beefiness to the burger and it's nailed it for me.

Try it, and let me know what you think...

Oh. And here are some other photos to give you a feel for the place.

The not-so leaning tower of Vedett