Boom Boom Burger

I got invited to Boom Boom Burger Bar and Cafe the other day! It was a 1940s style New York style bar with burgers and bar place on Chevron Island down the Gold Coast! I know only one person down on the Gold Coast so Jubi came with me to this place!

It's on the main strip of Chevron Island just slightly off the side, so watch out for this sign!

Aw yiss

I liked all the murals and decorative pieces around the bar. I wish I was able to take more photos but there were way too many people around everywhere. I'm talking like 1-2 free tables at any time, except the freezing outside tables. I found the atmosphere to be like a buzzing restaurant, constant background noise but you're still able to talk to your dinner partner without shouting.

So bright

We sat right near the kitchen and enjoyed the view of the restaurant.

Bar!

I liked this table of cutlery and napkins, I like the worn look of it.

Not sure why I like it

Once again, I love the murals. This one was just outside the kitchen.

Great art!

Here is their menu! We got $40 off the tab since we got invited there but we ordered so much stuff we still had to pay a bit hahaha. We got a drink, tapas, side, burger and sauce each for roughly $30! The first pick was by Jubi! We were really indecisive for a long time about what tapas to get because we wanted to eat everything and I mean like, I would eat everything on the menu just to try it. Jubi is the queen of best decisions when it comes to her picks and it was no different this time.

She chose the four hour braised beef cheeks with mushrooms and small pieces of juicy, intensely flavoured tomatoes. I wish I could even convey how tender these slices of melting beef were, I poked it with a knife and the meat fell to pieces. It had a rich, intensely flavoured sauce that was thick, glossy and with that wonderful beef, tomato and mushroom flavour of winter.

Winter food at its best

I went with the slow cooked pork rib sticky fingers, I have no idea what a pork rib sticky finger is but its a super meaty pork rib and I'm a fan of that. This was another super tender cut of meat, when I grabbed the bone to pick it off the plate, the rest of the meat fell off right back onto the plate. The sauce was delectable, I was licking it off the plate when I thought Jubi wasn't looking.

Sooo good

The house specialty on the side dishes was the puff potatoes which after much discussion, Jubi decided to get. We were eagerly discussing what we possibly thought this could be when it arrived at our table. Perfectly round, golden brown, shallow fried, well seasoned mashed potato balls! They were super hot and I'm pretty sure Jubi burnt her tongue trying to eat one, they were amazing but definitely something you should eat promptly.

Amazing!

I picked the onion rings after much umming and ahhing over what to get. The onion rings had very large, sweet slices of onion in a thin and super crispy tempura batter. We got a sauce each that appeared in the photo below, I got the house mayonnaise and Jubi got the tomato relish. I disliked the flavour of the mayo, finding it to have a strong flavour to the oil used and not much of a tang or sweetness. The relish was very good and Jubi ate the entire dish on EVERYTHING, she was highly tempted to bring a jar of it home to be honest.

Wonderful!

I decided to go with the option of two sliders for $12 to try a few more things. My first instant pick was the Hello Lucy! Haloumi, roasted pumpkin, walnut, tomato relish, lettuce and rocket burger and if that doesn't sound amazing I don't know what else does. This is the first and only time I've ever wanted a vegetarian burger and I'm just as amazed as you are. The flavours worked perfectly together from the crunchy of the walnut, the sweetness of the pumpkin, that salty, chewy hit from the haloumi and the freshness and bitterness of the rocket! Oh man, this is the perfect combination and I was in heaven! Jubi was very polite and decided to go with a different burger option but she later confessed this is what she originally wanted. I will make a salad with these exact ingredients one day and it will be glorious, I have all these ingredients at home right now barring the rocket.

Too bad, so sad, its all mine!

I also got the Pig Me Up, 6 hour slow cooked pork belly, green apple chutney, blue cheese, tomato and lettuce. I was somehow under the expectation that this was pulled pork so I was quite surprised when I tasted blue cheese, pork belly and tart green apple. It was tasty but I was so irritated by this that I was put off since I had been expecting pulled pork. Jubi later showed me the menu and I admitted that it was good just unexpected. The pork belly has gorgeously melting layers of fat and soft pork and contrasted beautifully with the rich, creamy blue cheese and tart chunks of green apple chutney. 

So much chutney

This fat slob of a burger is their Boom Boom Bang, wagyu beef, tomato relish, cheese, lettuce and caramelised onion. Jubi ordered it and said it wasn't a super tall burger but the patty was cooked to a perfect medium rare and the burger was very wide. She said it was delicious but ended up having to eat it with a knife and fork due to the sheer size of it.

Classic burger!

Boom Boom Burgers
Atmosphere: 9, bustling American diner, intimate, buzzing but you can still hear people, it would be the perfect place to get together with friends especially with their bar and cheap prices.
Service: 10, absolutely wonderful. They were super attentive, cleared the plates away promptly and asked us multiple times how everything was. I noticed they did this to everyone and not just us as well!
Food: 10, I adored everything I ate here. It has the distinction of having the best vegetarian burger I've ever had the pleasure of eating, the sides are plentiful and cheap and the tapas were all delicious. I only regretted my choice of the house mayo for dipping my onion rings into due to whatever oil they used to make it up having a strong flavour.