The best burger in London, according to Time Out

Burgers are one of life’s greatest pleasures. That combination of bread, succulent filling, oozy cheese and perhaps a pickle or two is so simple, but so darn good. With such a neat formula, there are thousands of spots across London with decent burgers on offer. But here at Time Out, we’re interested in the outstanding. 

Our professional food obsessives have powered through dozens of patties in the city to bring you our list of London’s best burgers, updated for August 2025. And we’re coming at you with a brand new number one.

Right now you’ll find London’s best burger at Dumbo. The Parisian burger brand opened its first international joint in Shoreditch earlier this summer and has already won Londoners over. Plus, at £10 it offers one of the cheapest cheeseburgers on our list. 

Time Out food editor Leonie Cooper wrote: ‘The sleek smashburgers at Dumbo offer the perfect charred lacy crust on the edges of super succulent dry-aged beef. Add the requisite slices of gleaming American cheese, before tangy, plump pickles. Then come unobtrusive smears of ketchup and mustard - it’s better dressed than peak Chloë Sevigny – and you’re got yourself a rightfully hyped new-wave burger titan.’

Claiming silver medal is the ‘bona fide, utterly brilliant’ Dexter cheeseburger from Four Legs at The Plimsoll. This cult classic keeps things super simple. It comes with a thin Dexter beef patty topped by melted cheese, burger sauce, finely minced onion and a generous heap of sweet pickles, all packed inside a glossy brioche bun. According to Leonie, ‘you’ll be swooning after the first mouthful’. 

Then, in at number three is an absolute whopper – the colossal meaty bun from Dove. There are only 10 of these burgers served at the Ladbroke Grove restaurant each day. The thick 50-day dry aged beef patty is covered with silky onions that have been cooked in champagne and butter and a pungent blanket of gorgonzola. Such a hefty thing comes with a hefty price tag, though – it’ll set you back £18. 

Other burgers to make the cut on our new list include creations from Bleecker, Lagom and Manna. 

Find the full Time Out list of London’s best burgers here.

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