Jumbo Burger

Smash burgers have well and truly entered the Aussie lexicon – and the country’s best burger joints. The thin patties, smashed onto the grill with sliced onions and charred so the craggy edges are caramelised and crisp, have overtaken towering old-school burgers (with their thick slabs of beef piled high with “the lot”). Jumbo, the Pastel and Pinco Deli crew’s all-day burger bar, specialises in lesser-seen Oklahoma-style smash burgers.

The Oklahoma smashburger (with thick-cut pickles, double cheese and a flattened Rangers Valley beef patty between a milk bun) leads a menu of just five burgers. Other options include a fried fish sandwich; a Nashville-style hot chicken burger (rubbed in a dry spice, rather than drenched in spicy oil): and a vego option with panko-crumbed mushroom. Daily breakfasts include hotcakes with maple butter sauce, and sausage and egg muffins.

The simple but slick 2049-designed space feels more like a bar than burger joint, with exposed ceiling, plywood, concrete, pink communal tables, and coloured tube lights that switch from a warm glow during the day to fire-y red at night. If you want to treat it as such, you’ll find wines, American spirits, and fun cocktails like a mezcal Negroni and a rhubarb Gimlet.