Restaurants / American
Three Brothers Burgers aboard Spyglass
Burgers are big business. And they can be extremely lucrative.
Anyone who saw The Restaurant Man on BBC Two will know that burger restaurants are low cost and high profit.
Bristol has three new burger restaurants opening soon: the second Burger Joint on North Street, a permanent home for street food favourites Chomp on St Nicholas Street and too cool for school Meat Liquor on Stokes Croft.
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So the decision to transform the Spyglass into a burger restaurant is a sound one, especially coupled with craft beer from the likes of St Werburgh’s Wiper & True.
Just as Restaurant Man Russell Norman would like it, the menu here is simple. And it’s all eaten at communal tables.
28 day aged Herefordshire beef burgers are pressed to order and served pink in a brioche bun. As dude food should be, it’s messy but delicious.
Burgers cost from £6 to to £9.50 for double cheese, double bacon and double patty, and also a buttermilk fried chicken burger for £8.
My vegetarian companion was complementary about her mushroom, cheese and cucumber burger but displeased with its £6.75 price tag. At just 25p less than the bacon and cheese burger, it’s surely a very high profit margin indeed, and the cost doesn’t include chips.
If you don’t fancy a burger, you can choose from a couple of wings, subs or salads.
And then there are the sides. The chips are handcut and still in their skins, while the deep fried pickles are outrageously good and very moreish.
Spyglass’ former barbecue and grill won’t be missed too much thanks to the food served at Three Brothers, named incidentally after the three masts on board the ship.
And here’s hoping that Bristol’s newest burger restaurant could also become an all year round operation.
Its owners have perfected an entirely new menu. Now they just need to find a way to keep the premises warm in the winter.
Three Brothers Burgers aboard Spyglass, Welsh Back, Bristol, BS14SB
0117 927 7050
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