Batch Burgers and Espresso

This is probably the best place to get an authentic cheeseburger. The bread is soft, the burger juicy & meaty with pickles, onions, mustard & ketchup add a tasty extra. The fries are hot & crispy & decent portion. Yum
They have a good menu where you can add delicious goodies to your burger & different drinks to choose. I had the mint refresher, it was lovely! Well worth a visit

Good American burgers and fries. The shakes are good but could be thicker. The atmosphere is great and the views are amazing!

Burger places are popping up all over the place — establishing a sense of what we may or may not be missing out on in the US. Batch Burger presents a 1960s diner in a little hole in the wall that can only be described as cosy (max 10 people on the bench and 8 outside) it delivers a really simple but clear idea of how you should experience burgers.
From classic burgers to specialities, hot dogs and other americana types of food you have a lot to select from. I’ve only tried a few things on the menu, I have to say you go here for burgers — why you would order anything else seems strange to me.
The milkshakes are okay at best but the onion rings and fries are the perfect complement to the burgers and fried food does well in pairs. Really pleased that I found this place, I have been a few times when I’ve been in the neighbourhood and enjoyed trying out the different type of burgers, it’s also been interesting because there are american soft drinks that you can’t necessarily buy in the supermarkets — that are really there to again combine the whole experience.

Great American burger bar hole in the wall café. Good coffee (Campos) and fabulous food. The fried chicken was a real treat and the burgers fantastic.

Average burgers with self-​important staff. No thanks.

The food came fairly fast, and I must say the fries were good. My chicken schnitzel burger was fairly. Ordinary. I don’t have much to say for the cramped setup, the joggers coming in for bottles of water, or the nostalgically dressed waitress stuffing her face at the end of the bar. Wouldn’t set out to go here again.

Batch now has the slowest burritos on earth.
I ordered takeaway and true to their nature it took 40 minutes for a takeaway burrito… granted there were 4 other people there but clearly there are complications about making a burrito that I do not understand and that every other burrito place has solved.
As taste goes Batch is staying true to traditional old school Australian-​Mexican food. The pork was made of American BBQ sauce covered pork and enough sour cream and want-​to-​be guacamole that I am not sure if there was anything else in there.
I am still perplex how how they keep the service speed so slow while serving average food at best.

Wandering along Kirribilli trying to decide where to eat is a regular past-​time of old, and I was pleasantly surprised to see a new (to me) arrival, Batch Burgers.
In literally a hole in the wall, this little counter-​serve type spot does a range of burgers, sandwiches and such accompanied by coffee and beers.
It follows the current retro trend with all the gang fitted out to match the «boiger joint» feel, and chips served in a trendy little wire basket, boigers on a board.
Sitting watching them cook was a mixed blessing — open kitchens are good when the processes going on are all something we want to see — watching our pulled pork get dug out of a plastic container and dropped on the hotplate was a little unappetising, and their storage facilities seem inappropriate for an open kitchen, I thought. Maybe it’s just me…
Anyhow, in due course a couple of pulled pork rolls were produced — with a bit of slaw in the bottom, and in a pretty standard, although fresh, torpedo roll, and some nice crunchy fries.
Nothing wrong with anything here, wished I had a boiger though in hindsight — perhaps next time. I do think that compared to say Grill’d or Burgers and Ribs, they are a little off the game, although Grill’d can be very patchy depending on the one you go to.
Worth a try.

The venue looks promising with a gorgeous 50’s retro styled diner fit out. The staff are matched with retro outfits. Unfortunately the food doesn’t match the look. For just shy of $ 60, I got 2 cheeseburgers, 2 hotdogs, an extra side of fries and 2 cans of sprite. The cheeseburger came on a small dry bun with the thinnest of cheese slices only partially melted on top. The pickles were sliced thin but were cold and soggy. The meat paddy was tasteless and very undercooked. The fries came served in a small deep fryer basket which was cute but they were loaded with way too much salt. My kids had the hotdog which was basically a beef sausage on a dry bun. For the price, you don’t get much and the quality is poor. I was expecting it to be much like an authentic American diner, where the burgers are big and tasty with lots of sides. It’s nothing like Shake shack in NYC. Other reviews claiming that this is the best burger in Sydney have obviously never had a shake shack or burger joint burger.
Don’t waste your cash.

So I’m skype-​ing Andy and he is like «Yo, there is a new burger place in Kirribilli».
I look up from my watermelon and tell him that a new burger place opens weekly now, so there is no need to use such an excited tone over Skype. Cool ur jets, Ando.
He tells me that this place is more of an «american restaurant» than a burger joint.
So I look back down at my watermelon and tell him that I’m actually American, and I would be more than willing to judge this place for myself, more or less.
He responds that he already knew I was American, and that it was my accent that gave me away.
Cut to 9 minutes later and we make plans to try the restaurant the following saturday at 1pm.
Cut to the Saturday at 1pm and the pulled pork was great. So was the chilli dog.
end scene.

This American themed burger joint in Kiribilli is pretty solid. My boyfriend’s cousin says it’s the best burger in Sydney and he’s a burger connoisseur! Myself as an American, I thought the burgers were good, smaller than most gourmet burgers but well done. However, they missed the mark on the ⁵⁰⁄₅₀ lemonade and iced tea. This would be an Arnold Palmer with fresh squeezed lemonade and ice tea instead of sprite or a fizzy soft drink.
My chicken burger, the Tiajanero burger was delicious served with shoe string fries though I prefer thicker fries.

Staying in Sydney for a few days and had Batch recommended by my hotel.
Burgers were good, would have liked them medium, not well done.
Onion rings were fantastic!
Fries good, cheesy fries needed more cheese!
Corn on the cob was good
Fried chicken was good
Staff were friendly, but getting the food took a while
All in all though no complaints and would be back definitely!

Was stoked that a burger joint was opening in my hood. Was not stoked that they don’t have a good handle on what they are doing. Ask me how I want my meat cooked. If I want well done then I will go to McDonalds. Also, you need to get crispy bacon if you are trying to make an American style burger… and there’s no doubt they are. Speaking of, they need to get some better root beer. What they have now is flat and flavorless.
But hey, at the end of the day it’s still a burger and burgers rule.

I haven’t eaten my burger yet but I’ve been waiting for so long that I might as well kill time and write a review. what was supposed to be a 5 minute wait has turned into something closer to 20. luckily I’m not in any hurry tonight.
Ok, now that I’ve eaten the burger, I actually did add on an extra star after my annoyance with the wait. I understand that it’s new so it probably has some kinks to work out. Overall, it was tasty and I’m happy to have this new option in the Kirribilli neighborhood, we really could use something different to spice things up with the fish & chips and many thai spots. Because it was an American cheeseburger, I did expect American bacon but it wasn’t! That’s ok, I still really enjoyed the burger and wished there was more of it — the patty is on the small side.

Cannot believe that someone beat me to to review this place which has only been open a few days. Fantastic and original concept for Kirribilli, a retro diner that serves milk-​shakes, burgers and Campos coffee. A liquor license is rumoured.
Batch is tiny, only 10 bar chairs but 6 staff working like mad behind the small counter to keep up with demand. This place will do well in Kirribilli, a suburb of two thousand with the same number of school kids. We visited on the first weekend with our 8 year old, as did our neighbours with their 19 year old and the Mayor. Sitting outside for a short while was a large group of local teenagers who demolished the $ 12.50 burgers like there was no tomorrow. This is no chain (unlike Grill’d). They make to order. Batch is shaping up to be family heaven, soft-​serve for the kids and a liquor license will be a sensational combination.
PS. Such a relief to have a new place in Kirribilli that is not Thai.

Batch Burgers and Espresso is fitted out like a New York diner; the tight space is centred around a long bar that serves coffee and milkshakes and simple American street food, namely cheeseburgers, chicken, chilli-​dogs and corn. The price is right — corn’s $ 4, burgers are all $ 12.50, servings of chips are cheap — and the execution is modest, though bound to improve. This brand new joint will settle into its groove.
The elephant in the room is Grill’d. They have taken a grip on good burgers in this city, and with reason: they have identity… not to mention great freakin’ burgers. Grill’d’s generous, savvy selection make these ones look amatuerish, and at a similar price, it’s a comparison worth making. Good ideas at Batch — like crumbly smoked cheese on the Brooklyn, or bacon (albeit in the chewy Aussie style) standard on the cheeseburger — aren’t enough to lift these above what you’d throw together at home on Burger Night.
I remember when Grill’d first opened in Crows Nest, years ago. Scrawled on the walls, I noticed, eating something inspired by — but not bound by — the rules of classic hamburgers: «We will not serve your food on rollerskates.» Since that time Americana has exploded in Sydney, which is fun, but at Batch I couldn’t help but think back to that prescient critique. Still, I don’t mind that they’re a cardboard cutout. I just hope they’re able to trim the edges a bit more neatly…