Eating out: Burger Foundry @ St. Morris, Adelaide

Burger Foundry
08 8431 3231
389 Magill Rd
St Morris, SA 5068

I’ll be honest with you. I wasn’t exactly thrilled when I learnt that I’d be moving to Adelaide. I love Melbourne with all my heart and I cannot imagine myself anywhere else. For years, many have told me how much of a ‘hole’ Adelaide was. And when my friends found out I was moving to Adelaide, the condolence messages came flooding in. It did nothing to help, let me assure you.

But much like how there is beauty in everybody, there is beauty in every city. Over the 1.5 years that I have been frequenting Adelaide, I have come to love many points of Adelaide. It isn’t that Adelaide doesn’t have good food, it is that you need to look for it a little harder than Melbourne. While Adelaide may not have the coffee and cafe culture that Melbourne has, it does have a buzzing dessert cafe culture that Melbourne doesn’t.

So while we may not have the chain of burgers, Grill’d, or the very famous burgers from Huxtable, instead we have Burger Foundry and boy do they know burgers.

Sometimes it feels like good things aren’t celebrated as much in this state of churches. Through chatting with the locals (on that note, it will be a long, long time before I ever consider myself to be from Adelaide.) I found that not many knew of the gems that surrounded them. Burger Foundry seems to be one of them. None of my friends that I’ve spoken to (excluding the one who introduced them to me) knew of Burger Foundry. Well then.

Burger Foundry is located on Magill Road, St Morris. It’s not too far from the city: A quick 15-20 minute drive should get you there. But then, this holds true for most of Adelaide. The place is so small, you can get anywhere really quickly!

The restaurant isn’t big, in fact there’s two tables and that’s it. Most opt for takeaway and on my very first dine-in experience, I found out why, but more on that later. The menu boast of a range of different burgers ranging from beef, chicken to veggie burgers. They also offer a side of chips or green salad for the health conscious. But then, if you were health conscious, you wouldn’t be eating at Burger Foundry.

You order at the counter, and a quick minute or two later you are handed your burger. The service is top notch and incredibly fast tho I’ve read reviews that service can be slow and very inefficient. (This was not the case with us.) We sat down with our burgers and I then proceeded to gawk at it. Because in front of me, sat the biggest burger I had ever seen.

“There is no way I’m getting that into my mouth.” were my famous last words to my partner.

Okay, so that doesn’t really show the scale of the burger. I was really thrown off my game by the sheer size of the burger, I didn’t know how to eat it! Feeling a tad like Dagwood, I struggled to pick up my burger and began my mission of chowing down.

Here’s a rather unsightly photo of me trying to conquer the burger so you get a sense of scale. I promise you, holding that burger up was a lot harder than it looks!

So how were the burgers? They were juicy, fresh, flavourful and every bit as good as they claim to be. And it was so big, I couldn’t finish it. The patties were juicy, the cheese beautifully melted and the bread was soft with a beautiful crust. I highly recommend it to every burger lover out there! And since I could only finish about half the burger, I could probably get two meals out of the one burger for the one price. Perfect.

The one negative of the place that I experienced came after the burger eating was done. Being incredibly saucy and juicy, I had burger juice all over my hands. Yuck. At which point I found out that they didn’t have a sink for you to wash up at, nor a washroom. Um. I really didn’t want to drive my car with burger juices all over my hands!!! Thankfully I had water and wipes in the car, but it was still rather unpleasant having to wash my hands on the roadside. Next time, I’m doing takeaway.

I know there’s a fair few bad reviews out there for the place, and a lot of very mixed reviews, but trust me on this. They are capable of pumping out a good burger. There’s also a fair few complaints about their prices. Obviously, you lot must not understand the value of paying quality for quality. Sigh.

What do you think? Do you think charging higher prices for quality is reasonable?


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My Top 5s – Top 5 Cosmetic Brands

1. Face of Australia

A brand that flew under the radar till marketer extraordinaire Tinniepoo came onto the scene. High end cosmetics at budget store prices. Absolutely gorgeous limited edition nail polish collections, watch out for them! Celeste recommends picking up their: Liquid Eyeliner and Eye makeup remover.

2. Bobbi Brown

Bobbi Brown and myself share a similar philosophy. We believe that everybody is beautiful and everybody is gorgeous in their own way. I love that Bobbi Brown Cosmetics are of incredibly high standard. They are committed to being the best and are very handy for those of us who lean more towards neutral and subtle looks. Celeste recommends: Corrector and Concealer

3. Urban Decay

Filled with eye-popping colours, this quality brand is filled with enough colours to satisfy even the most colour-hungry makeup lover. And if that’s not enough, then take a dive into their shimmer filled eyeshadows. Breathtaking products with an amazing dare-to-do attitude. Celeste recommends: Every single eyeshadow palette you can get hold of and their 24/7 Glide on Eye pencils. They are da bomb. Oh, and don’t forget their eye primer either!

4. Benefit Cosmetics

With their love for vintage glamour and inspiration from the retro era, Benefit Cosmetics has to be one of the more eye-catching department store cosmetic brand there is. Their packaging is bright and colourful while others tend to go for the more toned down or black sleek look. Bugger that, it’s all fun and colour loving for this girl! Celeste recommends: Benefit Magic Ink.

5. Tony Moly

Tony Moly is a Korean cosmetic brand so I wouldn’t be surprised if you haven’t heard of it. They have incredibly adorable packaging while still maintaining a high quality in their products. Their price range is about mid-range, so while it isn’t super cheap, it’s quite affordable still. The only downside being that you’d have to be in Korea, Taiwan, Singapore or Malaysia to shop from one of their outlets. Alternatively, get your head around Gmarket and you will be able to purchase it from them too. Celeste recommends: Eggpore or aka face primer

Celeste’s Top 5s are purely what they sound like – my own personal list of Top 5s at the current time of writing. Quick facts, no long personal stories, just a quick list of what’s hot and rocking right now.

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