Earlier this year Lounge got its groove back. A stunning refurb, a new inspired music policy and most importantly the establishment of Gloria Swanston’s Kitchen that has lead to The Lounge becoming the choice hangout for hipster, clubber and rocker alike.
From a culinary perspective the champion of Gloria Swanston’s Kitchen menu is the Kickass Burger. To give this tasty hero the space it needs to wow your tastebuds Gloria Swanston’s Kitchen has introduced a super Tuesday between 12pm and 3pm offer that has the burger most excellently priced at $8 with chips thrown on for good measure. However as venue manager, and all round awesome dude, Jure Kodre explains there is an opportunity to get a whole lot more if you have a smart phone…and who the fuck doesn’t? “Take a picture, upload it to Instagram or Facebook tagged with #kickassburger to win $150 bar tab.”
He continues by explaining the origins of the Kickass Burger, “Basically when they changed the menu to capture an American style and with that in mind the chef Or Ben Ezra came up with it.”
Ben Ezra is the former chef of The Bottom End and the mastermind behind its tasty diner style menu. After The Bottom End decided to can the kitchen Ezra was quickly snaffled up by Lounge to open Gloria Swanston’s Kitchen.
Ezra fills us in on how the burger fills us up, “The pattie consists of a Porter house and rump cut, processed in-house to make sure it is 100% beef and another little secret of the burger is the fry-sauce with the recipe straight from the US.” Another reason why the burgers are so damn tasty is that Lounge uses the same sweet-ass buns as Huxtaburger – you know those rolls that would probably be classed as brioche in a bakery?
Funnily enough, Ben Ezra explains his passion for burgers comes his home country of Israel, “Burgers a very popular over there with there being many serious burger joints that cook patties of all kind of cuts to order. I suppose that is why I am so passionate about the burgers I produce in my kitchen.”
Other inspired treats on Gloria Swanston’s Kitchen’s menu are the perfect bar snacks in the pizza balls that were inspired on how some people would eat the topping clean off the chicken parma, without even touching the schnitzel, it was so tasty.
The venue manager Kodre now talks about his favourite item on the revamped menu. “Something Above Mary is probably my favourite item in the menu for its creativity and implicit humour. It’s Bloody Mary with a slider on the top – predictably it’s a popular item at a Sunday lunch,” cheekily discloses Kodre.
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Get down to Gloria Swanston’s Kitchen at Lounge on 243 Swanston St in the city between to 12 and 3pm on Tuesdays to get the awesome $8 Kickassburger deal and take a snap anytime of the a Kickass Burger and upload it with the tag #kickassburger to go into the draw to win a $150 bar tab. Visit lounge.com.au for more information.
