May 2023 update: Holy Moly. The legends at Slim's Quality Burger are slinging $1 cheeseburgers this Sunday, May 28 to celebrate International Burger Day. Seriously.
Each burger is made fresh to order using 100 per cent Australian Angus beef alongside grilled onion, cheese, lettuce, tomato, pickles, and a 'secret' Slim’s sauce. If you love American cheeseburgers, this one's for you.
Just a heads up – this red-hot offer is available only through web orders and the app, which you can download here. But still. $1 burgers, baby. Go forth.
Read on for our write-up of Slim's from 2022 by Elizabeth McDonald.
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It's no secret that Sydney has gone well and truly bananas for American-style burgers in recent years. When diners started dishing up burgers, fries and frosty shakes, it gave burg-crazed Australians their first taste of a Shake Shack-style experience, and the rest is history. Meet the new(ish) kid on the block, three ex-Betty's Burgers staff are dishing up simple, classic American fare from the brand spankin' new Slim's Quality Burger, out of the recently revamped Marrickville Metro.
The '50s-style diner isn't exactly reinventing the wheel here, but perhaps it's that familiarity that will hold the key to its success. After all: if it ain't broke, don't fix it. And there's absolutely nothing wrong with a classic cheeseburger with Angus beef, grilled onion, cheese, lettuce, tomato, pickles, and a 'secret' Slim’s sauce. No one ever went wrong with hand-cut loaded cheese fries with caramelised onions, and things get really nostalgic with the childhood fave of a tall spider – a fountain soft drink with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.
Slim's isn't trying to up the ante at the flagship Inner West venue (there are plans to roll out more Slim's in the future), with no OTT burgers in sight, and the team are keeping things simple for a reason. The tight menu and retro fit-out hark back to curved milk bar counters, cherry red checkerboard tiling – and simple things, done well. We'll drink a frosty chocolate milkshake to that.