When you’re plague with a stomach bug and can’t eat anything but plain food, you start to crave all sort of things. Being the girl with the bottomless appetite, I daydream about the last burger I ate: the CB1 from The Grand Trailer Park Taverna – a soft toasted brioche buns with a smear of butter, medium rare juicy double patties with melted cheddar and Swiss cheese and homemade big Mac sauce. It is happiness in a bun for burger enthusiast like myself.
Having open just under two years, the Grand Trailer Park Taverna has consistently making the top 10 burger of Melbourne list. One of their main attractions is the Francis Underwood burger, named after the ruthless power hungry character from the Netflix series House of Cards, which consists of toasted bun, deep fried Mac and cheese, meat patty, tomato, buttered lettuce and their burger sauce. There is also a varieties of alcoholic milkshakes with flavours such as maple bacon, kinder surprise or creme brulee. The staffs are very friendly, always up for a good chat about burgers and beer, the manager even gave us free shots one time as it was a friends surprise birthday dinner.
My go to order has always been a toss up between the Atomic burger, which is medium rare beef patty, chilli kranski, bacon, cheese, grilled onion and spicy mayo or the McDowell which is their chef’s version of the big Mac. And the bacon milkshake because well – bacon. Each visit, the burger has been well made, always medium rare and juicy with just enough sauce to add flavours and balance everything out. And serious melting cheese porn. The chips are crunchy, lightly season and decent serving, especially when you order the large to share. The milkshake is a tad pricey, due to the 2 shots of spirit, but it comes in a large tall glass and I recommend sharing so you can indulge dessert without calories guilt. The popular dessert is the waffle stack with nutella icecream, whipped cream, strawberries and nutella drizzle all over. It is as good as it sounds, it isn’t too sweet and you have the option to order a double stack to share and you get to have your own jar of Nutella with it. There are homemade donuts dipped in Nutella sauce if you don’t want the waffles ice cream sandwich.
The Grand Trailer Park Taverna is a great place to get good food and catch up with your friends, especially with big group because they have these trailer booths that you can reserve in advance. The food quality is always burgasmic, it is reasonably priced and there is always this relax atmosphere with the 2000’s RnB throwback music. They do sell out occasionally so make sure you come in early, especially on weekend. Check out their Instagram feed @grandtrailerpark for some serious burger and milkshake porn, their one off burger for special occasions like football finals or the waffle burger stack – don’t drool too much *muwahs*
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The Grand Trailer Park Taverna
Mon CLOSED
Wed, Thurs & Sun 11.30 AM – 10.00 PM
Fri & Sat 11.30 AM – 12.00 AM
87 Bourke St, Melbourne VIC 3000