The Burgernator: Revisited

We love The Burgernator. Like, really, truly love! It genuinely makes us happy to know that a Muslim owned burger joint is making waves in the city with their gourmet burgers. It had been awhile since we had visited The Burgernator so we decided to pay a visit after our trip to the Ripleys Aquarium (which you guys should check out).

At our most recent visit, we ordered the Fully Loaded ($10.99) and The Big Bang ($10.99). The Fully Loaded is two beef patties (12 oz total), cheddar cheese, sautéed mushrooms, caramelized onions, tomato, lettuce and burgernator sauce. We asked them to remove the fried egg as we were a little nervous about having a fried egg in our burger (although we are sure it tastes awesome). This burger was awesome! The beef patties were so well cooked that they were falling apart as we ate the burger. The burger was messy to eat but totally worth it. We do not recommend eating this in the car! Make sure you have both your hands free to eat it (a third hand might be useful too).

The Big Bang had beef patty, buffalo chicken strips, cheddar cheese, tomato, lettuce with roast garlic rosemary aioli. Om nom nom is definitely the best way to describe it. The crunchy chicken strips definitely are the highlight of this burger. Some people may find the burger a little bit bland, but dip it in the aioli and/or ketchup and you will definitely enjoy it more. The fries were great as well!

The owner, Amer Mokdad, who cooks the burgers himself, took the time to mingle with the customers. He was very nice to bring ice cream for our toddler who was a bit cranky and crying. That is what we call customer service!

We can’t wait to go back and try more of their delicious creations, inshallah! We will leave you with a picture from our trip to the Ripleys Aquarium.

The Burgernator Address: 

269 Augusta Ave

Toronto, ON

M5T 2M1

(647) 748-0990

The Burgernator

We have enjoyed eating burgers from time to time, but that all changed with once fresh, non-frozen, halal gourmet burger joints started springing up across the GTA. We’ve tried and enjoyed a variety of gourmet burger restaurants and have never looked back to frozen, pre-processed burgers. Upon hearing about The Burgernator in Kensington Market, we were compelled to try it out.

The Burgernator’s menu is quite extensive and is sure to please every palate. We decided to do a take-out due to time constraints and settled for: The Atomic Burger and The Big Bang, along with a side of fresh home cut fries.

One bite into the burgers and you could tell, they really are non-frozen, freshly prepared beef burgers, that were further enhanced by super soft and top quality buns.

The Big Bang: overall, it was a good burger and the addition to chicken wing certainly made it unique. The burger itself was mildly spiced. The garlic aioli that it came with certainly enhanced the taste.

The Atomic Burger: it was full of flavour for sure. You can really taste the deep fried herb-crusted cheese and as you slowly work your way through, you can taste the beef patty as well. We relied on garlic aioli to balance out the taste of deep fried herb-crusted cheese and the remaining burger.

We gotta admit that both the burgers were very unique and nothing of sort that we’ve tried before, so we enjoyed it. Given that we found the burgers to be mildly seasoned, we are looking forward to asking them to make our burgers a little more spicy and perhaps looking into other aioli (along with garlic aioli) to enhance the taste.

Home Cut Fries: we found the home cut fries to be fairly standard. Garlic dip complimented the fries well for sure.

Though we have ideas on what to request next upon our future visit to further enjoy our Burgernator burgers, we give it a thumbs up. You really gotta give’em a try to see experience the superb quality of ingredients!

The Burgernator is located at: 269 Augusta Avenue, Kensington Market. For further information, please visit: http://www.theburgernator.com