Bun Fight

First he won over John Torode, Gregg Wallace and the British public with his Japanese-inspired dishes on MasterChef 2011. Now the lovely Tim Anderson has gone and done it again with the champion’s crown at last night’s Slider Decider. Fifteen chefs took part in the bun fight at The Gun Docklands, but it was Anderson’s “Dalstonburg Disaster” that was crowned best of the bunch by judges Rebecca Seal of Channel 4’s Sunday Brunch, acclaimed restaurant critic Tracey MacLeod from the Independent, London Evening Standard’s Food Editor Victoria Stewart and Editor of Restaurant magazine Stefan Chomka.

Anderson’s winning creation combined a craft beer gua bao-style bun, Kewpee mayo and gochujang hispi cabbage slaw, aged mince with bone marrow and umami butter, craft beer burger cheese, brisket braised in craft beer, chipotle, and tonkotsu ramen broth, fried fermented onions, fermented heritage carrot and locally foraged seasonal nasturtium burger sauce. Nobody offended him by asking for the ketchup. All served with a cronut hole and craft beer. In second place was Jacques Fourie of Ember Yard with his hot smoked Iberico pork cheek, guindilla marmalade, lardo and fennel & watercress slaw slider. While Oscar Gomez Gomez from BRGR.CO came third with his butcher’s cut slider with Blackstick’s blue cheese and caramelised onion.

FULL LIST OF FINALISTS
L’Anima
Valerio Mazzei
Beef slider with burrata and smoked aubergine compote

Ember Yard
Jacques Fourie
Hot smoked Iberico pork cheek, guindilla marmalade, lardo
and fennel & watercress slaw

BRGR.CO
Oscar Gomez
Butcher’s cut slider with Blackstick’s blue cheese and
caramelised onion

The Bloody Oyster
Ed Ford
The New Orleans Slider – deep fried oysters, celeriac
remoulade, pickles and oyster leaf mayonnaise

Brindisa
Josep Carbonell
Blanco y negro burger – slider of white butifarra sausage and
black pudding with mushroom mayonnaise

Hixter
Ronnie Murray
Glenarm Estate mighty marbled salt-aged butler steak slipper

Opera Tavern
Jamie Thickett
Iberico pork slider with lobster, fried courgette, nduja aioli and
saffron bun

Boom Burger
Josh de Lisser
Baby Boom – a slider sized version of the signature Boom
Burger with cheese and bacon jam

Mews of Mayfair
Michael Lecouter
Beer fed Dexter beef slider with smoked brisket, Oggleshield
croquette and tomato and thyme jam

Nanban
Tim Anderson
Craft beer gua bao-style bun, Kewpee mayo and gochujang
hispi cabbage slaw, Aged mince with bone marrow and
umami butter, Craft beer burger cheese, Brisket braised in
craft beer, chipotle, and tonkotsu ramen broth, Fried
fermented onions, Fermented heritage carrot and locally
foraged seasonal nasturtium burger sauce, Served with a
cronut hole and craft beer

The Flask
Alexandre Ng
Papa Slider – dal chilli croquette, tomato chatini, crispy
shallots, wild garlic mayo, avocado mousse, cheese and
bulgogi beef

Fika
Darwin Garcia Real
Beef slider with Applewood Smoked Cheddar

Nigel Fredricks Butcher
Craig Osborne
The Truffle Burger

Burger Craft
Chris Clawson
bbBLTc – Dry-aged beef patty topped with Sandridge streaky
bacon, crispy bacon dust, American cheese with baby gem lettuce and plum tomato in a seeded brioche bun smeared
with bacon jam.

The Cadogan Arms
Sam Hawkes
Scottish Blackface lamb merguez, breaded Maldon oyster,
sea spinach, oak smoked hollandaise, caviar