Monday 26 August 2019

Ultimate recovery feeds at Monroe's St Kilda

Now you can go out in St Kilda and have a fat revival degustation there too. 

Monroe's 107 Acland St, Melbourne /  The Burger vault.

Monroe's Burgers has been a stalwart of greasy, glorious buns in Healesville since 2016. The burger joint was born like many great ideas are - over beers between two best friends, Paul Stephens and Alex Bright.

They trawled through Melbourne's hypersaturated burg scene on a patty pilgrimage to separate the good, the bad and the ugly. (Our kind of market research). And now, Acland Street has a new incubator for Really Fucking Good Burgers thanks to the duo. There's also a Yarra Valley outpost open, so after one-too-many vineyard stops on the next gals winery tour, initiate a driveby.

Despite pulling up a seat at the street-facing outdoor table and profusely whining about our gargantuan appetites, we obviously over-ordered and ended up almost catatonically full. Be warned, these buns mean biznez. Less burger bravado, more burger bravura. I even accidentally intermittently fasted that morning off the back of a rather questionably large Friday evening. 

For lovers of a chicken-centric burg, you'll have to wrap your hands around one of Monroe's The Deep South burgers. With mouthwateringly crispy chicken, lettuce, red onion and lashings of smoky, southern-style BBQ sauce on a toasted milk bun, I was left reeling. When it comes to sides, do not hold back. This trip marked my first foray into the finger-licking, irrevocably addictive world of onion rings and the boys here bloody nailed it (according to my much more experienced girlfriend Soph).

Being the deso driver for the outing, I had to skip on a drinks menu that I would've otherwise guzzled at breakneck speed. Monroe's has a curated lineup of highly sessionable drops, with staple offerings from Melbourne craft brewing bigshots like Moon Dog. The point of difference here, however, is a whole fridge full of rogue sips like the Peanut Butter Porter from Bad Shepherd or a Peach Milkshake IPA from Dainton for more adventurous types. 


There's no denying the exhausting groundswell of burger joints across this city. But if you find yourself in the St Kilda area craving an onslaught of carborific fare, Monroe's is your main man.

Stalk the buns out of them, here. 

TROVE XX
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