To celebrate World Hamburger Day Vivid burgers are on our menu
SUNDAY is World Hamburger Day and it is also the first weekend of Vivid Sydney. So, check out our guide to the best burgers to enjoy at this colourful 23-day light festival.
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SUNDAY is World Hamburger Day and, with the world’s largest festival of light, music and ideas lighting up the Sydney’s CBD for the next 23 days, we have gone on the hunt for the best places to grab a burger while enjoying all this festival has to offer.
1. Steel Bar and Grill, Sydney
Steel Bar and Grill is celebrating the fact Vivid Sydney is taking place right on its doorstep with mini-sliders built on colourful brioche buns. The Vivid buns, that are baked daily in-house, include a mini cheese burger with sweet pickle as well as pulled pork with Asian slaw. While there also check out their colourful lamington dessert. Steel Bar and Grill is adjacent to Martin Place where Vivid Sydney is featuring Deep Forest, a fusion of art and food that includes a giant glowing frog. It is also only a short walk to Barangaroo, the Royal Botanic Gardens and the harbour precincts.
60 Carrington St, Sydney, steelbarandgrill.com
2. Ume burger, Barangaroo
Ume Burger has created a wicked Vivid Burger with signature house-made wagyu mince sauce, fries with umami salt and a spicy special sauce. Barangaroo, Vivid Sydney’s newest precinct, features an illuminated trail of installations including Trapdoor, where the ground seems to opens up in front of you on the Wulugul Walk.
Wulugul Walk, 33, Barangaroo Ave, Barangaroo, umeburger.com
3. Orchard Tavern, Chatswood
Orchard Tavern’s Vivid Sydney burger is filled with pig three ways served in a charcoal bun that will be sprinkled with vivid colour. The Orchard is also serving Vivid cocktails. This traditional pub is located in the Chatswood CBD that is being reinvented into a steampunk- themed world of interactive light installations, complete with people-powered steam engines, a giant drumming octopus, underwater worlds and sustainable cities perched in the sky, for Vivid Sydney.
455 Victoria Ave, Chatswood, theorchardtavern.com.au
4. Rising Sun Workshop, Newtown
Rising Sun Workshop, Sydney’s first communal motorcycle workshop and ramen bar, will be lighting up as part of Vivid Sydney but it will be with fire this time as part of the Carriagework’s Night Market. They will be flipping their pork katsu burgers and eggplant katsu burgers, available on their lunch menu, as part of the Cooking with Fire Night Market on June 16 that is being curated by Lennox Hastie — chef and owner of Sydney’s Firedoor, Australia’s only fully wood-fuelled restaurant.
1C Whateley St, Newtown, risingsunworkshop.com
5. Untied Rooftop Bar, Barangaroo
Untied’s winter-themed pop-up rooftop bar is the perfect location to see Vivid Sydney light up the harbour precinct while enjoying a chicken burger with jerk sauce on a milk bun. The exclusive cocktails on offer include the Vivid Spritz with Belvedere Vodka, Lillet blanc, grapefruit and rosemary.
Rooftop, Level 4, Exchange Place, 400 Barangaroo Ave, Barangaroo, untiedsydney.com.au
6. Opera Kitchen, Sydney
Dine underneath the sails of Sydney Opera House and soak in some of Vivid Sydney’s best views from the Opera Kitchen while tucking into one of their signature burgers, including The Ol’ smoky Joe with smoky BBQ pulled pork. This is a great spot to take in the majesty of Vivid’s Dreamscape, including The Bridge, which is the world’s largest interactive lighting display. It links the entire Quay precinct from the Sydney Opera House to the Sydney Harbour Bridge into one cohesive canvas of light.
Bennelong Point, Sydney, operakitchen.com.au
7. Glenmore Hotel, The Rocks
Glenmore Hotel’s rooftop bar boasts 180-degree views of Sydney Harbour and glow-in-the-dark furniture offering one of the best seats for a bird’s eye view of the CBD cityscape under lights. Take all this in while enjoying one of the burgers on offer, including the Teriyaki Katsu Burger with American cheese, purple slaw and teriyaki mayonnaise.
96 Cumberland St, The Rocks, theglenmore.com.au
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