GT Burger is Dubai’s newest burger joint. It probably won’t be by the time I finish this review, so frequently are new ones popping up these days. This one though, is one of the gooduns. It’s also a physical restaurant and not one of those faceless, soulless delivery kitchens. Located in Block B of the Office Park Building on Abdullah Omran Taryam Street in Dubai Media City, its interior is bright and cheerful and screams fast food (in a good way, as my daughter likes to say). The GT concept (GT stands for good times not grand turismo) is the labour of love of grill master and cool dude, Pierre, who was on hand to supervise our order.
A view from the street 
The interior 
That’s where you place your order 
The menu 
That’s our rowdy group of famished foodies 
The eco-friendly delivery packaging
There were six of us and we started with chicken wings and onion rings while our burgers, hot-dogs and milkshakes were being prepared. The wings come with two sauces, Buffalo and Korean; I think we all preferred the tangy, slightly spicy buffalo flavour. The wings themselves were well cooked and easy to suck off the bone. I’ve never been a big fan of onion rings, but these were actually pretty good.
Nachos 
Onion rings 
Chicken wings: Korean on the right and Buffalo on the left
My son and I like cheeseburgers with seared yet juicy smashed meat patties…and not a lot else. That’s what we asked for and that’s what they made us, and boy-o-boy where they gooooood. I had a bite of the GT Shroom & Swiss and the GT Bacon (beef of course) but I felt, like a good steak, if a burger is fundamentally good, it doesn’t need anything else on it. I liked our simple cheeseburger the best.
That’s how the burgers are served 
The fries are Five Guys good 
GT Bacon 
Inside the GT Shroom & Swiss 
The amazing GT Cheese
Their chicken burger, called the GT Slaw Chicken, is very, very good (yes, I had a bite of that too) and definitely worth ordering if you’re not into meat. Their hot-dogs are insane, if a little over-sauced (I would ask for less sauce). And then there are the sinfully good milkshakes, I especially liked the Lotus followed by the Peanut Butter Shake – OMG!
GT Dog 
Yeah, I didn’t leave much of that ‘dog 
Delicious brownie with ice cream and caramel sauce 
We were offered a 10% group discount but otherwise paid in FULL for our meal.
Service was very friendly and accommodating. There are a lot of burger joints in Dubai (Ugly Burger is right around the corner). GT Burger is going to have its work cut out if it is to carve out a name for itself. I certainly think it has what it takes – a cracking recipe, top quality ingredients, delicious burger and hot-dogs, milkshakes so sinfully good you’d think they’ve come straight from the hand of Eve, eco-friendly delivery packaging and super competitive prices – all they now need is a little kiss from lady luck.
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