The Bank Street Social Crew Heads Next Door To Open a Burger Joint

Bank Street Social – named for its location on Bank Street – has been a late-night hangout for more than a decade. Now, the team is branching out from its standard offering of wine, beer and pizza with the newly opened Bank Street Burger.

As the name suggests, the new hole-in-the-wall joint has a limited offering: “just three burgers that are done really well,” co-owner Shaun Campbell tells Broadsheet.

The kitchen is headed by Elliott Kagi, who’s spent the last four and a half years mastering the art of the burger at Imperial Measures Distilling’s Ounce Bar.

Customers are given the choice between The Classic, The Original and The Cheeseburger. Each burger comes with house-made pickles, a signature secret sauce and a patty made from premium Riverina black Angus beef, which is ground on-site daily.

A concise menu was always the plan, and the team found itself drawn to the ever-trendy smash burger. Having just three burgers meant “every ingredient has been very well thought out,” according to co-owner Simon Orders. “Each burger went through several rounds of revision. We tried adding things, taking things out, making sure that we didn’t have anything there that wasn’t adding something, so now the final version is probably version 10 of each burger.”

Moving away from fast-food restaurant aesthetics, the takeaway-only venue features red marble counters, Tasmanian oak accents and burgundy zellige tiles. There’s an open kitchen so customers can watch their burgers get sizzled and stacked. And, while it’s takeaway only, you’re welcome to bring your burger back to Bank Street Social once its pizza kitchen has closed.

The team claims it can get you from the till to having a burger in your hands in five minutes flat. It’s open until 11pm on Thursdays and on Friday and Saturday nights until 3am the next mornings – and it’s a much better late-night option than standard fast food.

Bank Street Burger
48 Hindley Street, Adelaide
(08) 7080 9800

Hours:
Wed 5pm–9pm
Thu 11am–3pm & 4pm–11pm
Fri 11am–3pm & 4pm–3am
Sat 5pm–3am

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