Burger Brats

I think this place is totally underrated. The burger I got was the Adelaide. The goat cheese and maple syrup combo with the burger were absolutely amazing. very fresh meat and juicy. I would come back. The staff were really nice because I came near closing and they stayed five mins after they were closed to do what they needed and did not emphasize the closing part too heavily like other places would because everyone just wants to go home.

I went during an odd hour so it was dead. Turnaround was 10 mins, ordered the Firehouse, which was pretty solid. If you like spice, it’s not spicy at all, but still delicious. Although I think they forgot to put the $ 1 avocado on. Either that or it was a small amount. I’ll be back since it’s the best burger spot closest to me.

Delicious burgers. Very friendly staff. This place definitely hit the spot.

I stumbled upon Burger Brats alwalkunf along Adelaide. There was a small sign out front — what drew me in was the small sign about the shakes and floats. I was very pleasantly surprised at the amazing range of burgers and shakes! Everything was super delicious! Will definitely go there again!

I have to say these burgers really blew me away, i ordered this food through just-​eat and it turned out to really amazing, the burgers were really well seasoned and cooked perfectly, fresh buns, fresh toppings, it was a really perfect burger to be honest. We also ordered the poutine as well and the fries were fresh cut, crispy, the cheese curds were squeaky and plentiful, and the gravy was well seasoned and quite tasty, not your average canned gravy. On top of it all, the customer service was beyond excellent, these people really care about their product and their clients. Paul, who helped fix a small error in our order went beyond what was expected and made every effort to assure i was a happy customer. I can tell you this, i certainly was, and i’m now a patron, when it’s time for burgers again, this is the only place i will consider.
Thanks guys, you were great!

UPDATE: either the food has changed, or my perception has.
This time the (Classic) burger was really good, with a nice balance of meat and toppings. I didn’t notice any lettuce on this one. The bun had a good, meal-​y quality to it — nicer than the everyday white hamburger buns most places use. The fries were nicely browned, and generously salted. No Coke Zero :-(
The staff deserve a mention for offering excellent service — very friendly and attentive.

Had a friend rave to me about this place. We were excited for a delicious experience but it really wasn’t.
I ordered a bacon cheese burger with sweet fries and a milkshake. The milkshake was amazing. The burger — not so much. Asked for no tomato. There was tomato. Nuff said. If I can successfully mod a 2 $ burger at mcdonalds why can’t I mod a 10 $ one here? Extremely bland and flavorless. No seasoning detected — In desperate need of sauce. Also the meat was overlooked and dry. The sweet fries were the worst part. They were cut way to thick and were literally a pile of mush. The guy working even acknowledged they were bad — but didn’t offer to throw me some regular fries instead. After paying 18.50 for a burger fries and shake I expected it to be a lot better. I won’t be going back.

Smoke Shack burger was decent, loved the flavoring and bacon balance. The downside was it was smallsized for $ 5 Burger Week. Will have to revisit after and see it the burgers measure up for value.

I really had my hopes crushed at this place, The fact that I constantly raved about it to my boyfriend, made me that much more embarrassed. This restaurant is in a basement type location, and it shows. It smells of complete mold! It was almost sickening. The bathroom will make you actually puke. I’ve never seen a bathroom as dirty as this one. The food here is definitely overpriced. I ordered a chipotle burger. Terrible… it was the sweetest burger I ever had. All in all I wouldn’t recommend this place to anyone… ever.

You want a killer burger bursting with flavor? Go to Burger Brats. I’ve been going here for a little over a year now and they never let me down. I even she’d a single tear when I got the hours wrong one Sunday evening last fall.
Example: I already fell head over heels with the mushroom melt (delectable and not too filling) especially paired with the regular poutine (heaven sent by the way). These we’re my dynamic duo… UNTIL my girlfriend persuaded me to try the smokeshack… I died and went to flavor Valhalla.
Now my fav combo is the smokestack (Ranch BBQ sauce? c’mon that’s what’s up!!) and poutine.
Unless I want to go the extra mile and Inhale a pop tart milkshake.
Burger Brats… killer!

Worst delivery experience ever. Food was served cold. They delivered small fries instead of large. And plain Coke instead of Diet Coke. Burgers look great on the menu but lack of personality.

Maybe it’s just me, but I’m immediately turned off by food places that are located in basements. You have to go down a dark set of stairs to enter this subterranean burger joint, and it always just feels to me like I’m walking down to my doom.
Overall, the food and prices are pretty reasonable. The Hangover burger is massive, and if you order one they’ll snap your picture and put you on their wall and facebook. Burgers are nice and thick, but somewhat dry. They aren’t very strong in the way of sauces either. Overall, greasy, fatty goodness, but not anything particularly special.
Their fries were really good, the brown kind that are salty and unpeeled. Fair warning though — stay away from their pountine. The gravy basically tasted like thicker starch water — completely flavorless.
I recommend the shakes for a hot day!

Heard of this place from Teambuy doing a promo for them a while back and wanted to give it a try. Was walking around and found it hidden downstairs. Tried their ‘Great Canadian Hangover’ which consist of triple patty, triple cheese, 2 peameal bacon, grilled onion and mushroom, lettuce, tomato, secret sauce and a fried egg.
Decent burger, but not the best. The thickness of the meat is nice, but not moist and juicy for the burger. Considering this is their signature! I wouldn’t mind trying other burgers and maybe their shakes one day.

I tried this place after I saw an article about their Hang Over burger in the paper. Needless to say that it is a very huge burger and finishing one is an accomplishment on it own.
Good: Very friendly staff.
Meh: I felt my arteries clothing after having one. The burger itself was OK tasting.
Bad: You couldn’t find anything on the menu and I had to ask the staff for a burger by describing what I saw in the paper.

The attitude of the staff working here sure matches the name.
My husband and I stopped by for quick lunch and I was not impressed.
The girl behind the counter was snotty and arrogant when taking our order and the rest of the staff in the kitchen wasn’t any better.
Girls, if you are above working in a burger joint, then go and get another job!
The menu readability is horrible.
I was glad I had checked their online menu in advance.
In the end, we ordered The Great Canadian Classic with cheese and The Fire House.
The burgers took quite some time to prepare and so we were left at our table freezing since the place had no heating on.
The temp was not just cool, it was ice cold.
Taking off your jacket was impossible.
Finally the burgers came and they were just alright.
Not too dry, but not much flavor either.
Nothing I would recommend.
I won’t be back.

NOT A BURGER FAN but have had some mindblasting burgers recently (Dangerous Dan’s and Earl’s) so I was more than willing to try this «new”(in my mind) place out.
LOVE:
The pictures of the burgers, and the hand drown menu (didn’t realize that it was a menu at first) with details of the ingredients.
The open space concept and non-dinginess…dunno why, but seems to be a rare thing these days to find a well lit (but not asylum bright) and open.
The bun — it’s silly but often burger buns seem so small that the patty falls out, making it a neat treat nearly impossible.
MEH:
The wait. We ordered this at 12 noon and got it around 30 minutes later (I was quite time sensitive because I was on lunch).
The proportions — maybe because I was hungry already and by the time the order was ready, I was famished, counting the seconds go by to keep my mind off the stomach; and a hungry Shyni is a bi*chy Shyni.
The cashier — it was blatantly obvious it was our first time because we told her so and her response was: OH. fine — really, I expected her to roll her eyes right after the tone. Was this because we weren’t good looking men looking for burgers?
She was staring blankly at us as we are miserably waiting for our food — perpetual boredom and desire to be anywhere but there, was on her face. Even at my last boring job I didn’t look THAT bad (at least look occupied thinking or something!) — i felt bad for her though, food service isn’t the best gig.
The price. I paid $ 8 for my burger which isn’t unusual but that felt a little too much considering that we were both left with something to be desired. It was not particularly outstanding in taste or filling; one of the two is required for me, when it comes to food.
No second tries on this one — there’s a Hero burger close by.

I’ve been striking out over the last three week trying to find a decent burger in Toronto. One place blamed the Canadian laws on giving me a chewed up over cooked pile of sadness and another place tried to reroute me to how good the fries are in Canada. I’m not 8 stop trying to trick me!
I was sitting in an Irish pub earlier today and asked the bartender the age old question «is there an amazing burger anywhere? Please god help me»
OK it wasn’t that extreme.
He left for a moment and handed me a local paper that oddly enough listed Toronto’s 50 best burgers or something like that. I was looking at the category of «over the top» and the bartender was kind enough to point out most were far from where I was sitting but Burger Brats wasn’t far… Ugh It was really damn far but no matter I’m a big boy and can stand to walk a few or several.
First off-​The staff greeting was extremely great-​friendly and willing to help.
They make a few suggestions and I went with something called the Texan-​Burger, Texas toast, egg, ham, and a chipotle mayo. The combo came with fries and a drink for the low! low! price of $ 15.00. What???
I often have to remind myself I’m not in Detroit and 15.00 is probably average for this type of a meal.
The food came out in about 10 minutes or so and I dove into the fries. Not too bad. Little greasy but overall decent fries.
The burger!
The Good-​This may be the first burger in Canada in general that wasn’t dried out and actually had a beef flavor.
It was hot-​just from the grill
It was a very large burger.
The bad!
There really were just too many flavors competing and after a few bites of ½ the burger I really didn’t want to continue and pitched it.
There were 3 slices of Texas toast which is really unnecessary and the chipotle mayo which I did like was really just too hot if you weren’t prepared. These are very nominal criticisms in the grand scheme of finding a reasonable burger in Toronto.
Overall I’d go back if I thought about it but I don’t think it would be something I’d have to have when visiting Toronto.

I had 2 vouchers for this place so I took a couple of friends with me. I’ve had better burgers, better and hotter fries. The milkshake was a disappointment; it was suppose to be chocolate explosion yet what arrived was a peanut butter explosion with a hint of chocolate. The staff were alright, not sure how excited they are to be there!
I still have one voucher to go. Maybe I’ll give it away!

I believe Kate M. hit the nail on the head in her review.
Two colleagues and I had lunch there the other day. Outstanding burgers — super fresh and delicious. I also liked that there were pictures of the burgers — in this case, other than at fast food places, these pictures are pictures of the actual burgers, not photoshopped images of plastic burgers.
The owner came out to chat with us. Very pleasant fellow. We were impressed that he wanted our impressions on his burgers — as he himself did the cooking.
The woman at the cash was playful and delightful… a pleasant surprise to some of the deadwood working cash registers in the city. She is a real keeper.
We are definately going back.

GENERAL NOTES
I love living in the entertainment district for the close proximity to a wide variety of tasty and cheap food. However I’m so close to so many great food places that the thought of walking further for longer than 6 minutes to get food is one that doesn’t often occur to me.
Enter Burger Brats, a burger shop I can see from my window, filling the gourmet (ish) burger-​sized hole that has been missing from my regular diet for the past… I dunno, while.
Fogs and I went down to check it out before their grand opening and were greeted by some very nice, very enthusiastic people. Unfortunately, the burgers are too expensive and the fries aren’t great. I’m sure I’ll go from time to time but the value isn’t there for me. Maybe their malts are good… maybe they’ll get better… or cheaper…
MENU RECOMMENDATIONS
I had the mushroom melt burger which was good but severely lacking in toppings beyond those found in the name of the burger. Geoff had some other burger which was also good but not great.
I’ve tried the fries and the sweet potato fries. Both were disappointing. Especially the sweet potato fries. They cut them like regular fries and they’re not crispy or flavourful enough for my taste.
So…try a burger?
SERVICE NOTES
Very friendly staff. Open late on weekends.
LOCATION NOTES
North side of Adelaide, just West of Duncan in a basement unit. I don’t want to say where as it’s still the best kept secret in the entertainment district but there’s free parking very close to this establishment.
HUMOUROUS STORY
Despite the name, they do NOT serve brats here.