The All-Star
£11.50Double smash, double cheddar, burnt onions, house sauce.






Brioche crown
Butter-toasted, pressed flat on the plancha.
Burnt onions
Six hours in beef fat until they turn to jam.
Molten cheddar
Aged twelve months, laid on while the beef is still loud.
Double smash
Two 80g balls, hit thin, crust edge to edge.
Griddled base
Cut side down in the fat the patties left behind.
Better together
Same food, less money, one order at the counter. Swap anything inside a combo for whatever else is on the menu.
Four moves
Chuck and short rib, coarse ground each morning, rolled into 80g balls. Never pressed, never stacked.
Ball hits a 260°C plancha and gets thirty seconds under the press. That is where the crust comes from.
One slice per patty, laid on at the flip so it melts with the steam rather than the heat.
Buns toast in the fat left behind, the stack is built in one move, and it leaves the pass inside nine minutes.
Since 2019
We opened in a converted railway arch in 2019 with a second-hand plancha and a single mince supplier. Both are still here. The beef is coarse ground the morning it is cooked, the onions go on at six, and nothing on the pass has ever seen a freezer. That is the whole trick, and it is not really a trick.
Four kitchens
Every seat is first come. The queue looks worse than it is — nine minutes is nine minutes.
Arch 14, Pedley Street, E1 5BW
11:30 — 23:00 daily
88 Rye Lane, SE15 4RZ
12:00 — 23:30 daily
9 Bateman Street, W1D 4AH
11:30 — 01:00 Thu — Sat
Unit 3, Mackie Mayor, M4 1PN
12:00 — 22:00 daily
4.8 average · 2,140 reviews
The crust on that patty is the whole argument. Everything else on the menu is just keeping it company.
Dara F.
Shoreditch, 4 years a regular
Ordered at 19:40 on a Friday. Ate at 19:51. In London. I still do not entirely believe it.
Priya M.
Soho
I have taken three people here who said they did not like burgers. I am now three for three.
Callum W.
Peckham
The burnt onions ruined every other burger for me. Genuinely a bit annoyed about it.
Ama O.
Manchester
Smash House rewards
No card, no app to remember. Give the counter the number you order from and it counts itself.
Three to go. The counter keeps track — you do not have to.
Before you ask
If it is not here, the counter will know. So will the phone.
No, and we are not being difficult about it. Every seat is walk-in, most of them are at a counter, and the queue moves faster than a booking system would.
Medium by default, because a smash patty is thin enough that anything else dries it out. Ask and we will do what we can, but this is the one we will argue about.
The Green Room, and it is cooked on its own section of the plancha. Vegan on request — say so and the cheese and sauce swap out.
Within three miles of each kitchen, on our own riders. Beyond that a smash burger does not travel well and we would rather you did not have it.
Two farms in Oxfordshire, chuck and short rib, ground coarse each morning by our butcher in Bermondsey. Never frozen at any point.
Up to six turns up and waits like everyone else. More than that, email us a week ahead and we will hold a section at the quiet end of service.
Jobs
Grill, front counter and riders, across all four kitchens. No experience needed on the grill — we would rather teach you our way than unteach someone else's.
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