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2013-10-01
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I had a burger craving and some expat forums seemed to suggest that Burger Box was pretty good. I'm almost 100% certain that the review by "HKVisitor," the prior English review, is written by an employee of Burger Box or someone otherwise paid by Burger Box. The place is good enough, and decently priced, but there are burger *chains* in the US (Five Guys, e.g.) that make better burgers, and any halfway decent bar will too.A lot of HK burger patties are packed with breadcrumbs and are overly juic
A lot of HK burger patties are packed with breadcrumbs and are overly juicy-- not in a natural-meat-juices way, but instead in a greasy soak-your-bun sort of way. They also tend to be much smaller than the bun they're put on. I will say that Burger Box avoids all these pitfalls. The patty is nice and meaty, not greasy, and decently sized. It comes with lettuce, tomatoes, onions, pickles, mayo, mustard, ketchup, and if you order the cheeseburger like me, cheese. I asked for no mayo. One unfortunate thing about the burgers is that you don't get to put your own condiments on, and they're a little heavy-handed with them. The cheese was notably inoffensive. I liked the bun too; too many HK places have buns that naturally fall apart, and this is typically exacerbated by the greasy juices they all exude. This bun was nice and solid. A-/B+On the whole I'd put Burger Box above Burgeroom, Shake'em Buns, and Burger Bowl. I'd put it *way* above Triple O's. However, I think I prefer GBU, due to the larger selection of toppings and the ability to put on your own condiments (there was way too much ketchup on my BBox burger). None of these chains hold a candle to an actual, real burger done by a restaurant that knows what it's doing. For example, I've had a very good burger at Pure Bar by the escalators.
Now for the serious part. They were out of fries. That means out of 11 menu items, they had only 6. No fries, no chili fries, no poutine, no burger combos. Why a burger restaurant doesn't have several giant sacks of potatoes on hand is simply beyond me. It's like if Mak's Noodles ran out of wontons. I seriously cannot eat a burger without fries. After I ordered I headed upstairs to KPC (that's not a typo) but they were out of fries too! I had to walk down to the Beer Bay to finally get some [expletive deleted] fried potatoes.
For the overall restaurant score, I'm going to have to give BBox a C-, "Below Average." Not having fries is definitionally below average for a burger joint. The burger itself was pretty good.
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