Best Burgers in London: Brixton to Soho

The best burgers in London are spread across several eating districts rather than one burger street: Soho and Marylebone in the West End, Shoreditch and Spitalfields in the east, and Brixton and Peckham south of the river. Street-food stalls at Borough Market and Camden Market add a second circuit. Quality depends on the kitchen more than the postcode.

London’s modern burger scene took shape around 2011. Honest Burgers opened its first restaurant that year in a small unit in Brixton Village, after selling burgers from a tent at festivals, and MEATliquor opened in Marylebone soon after. That wave made the messy, sauce-heavy “dirty burger” a London fixture. Fifteen years on, openings and closures move fast, so older lists of where to eat date quickly.

Burgers in London: key facts

• Neighbourhoods to explore: Soho, Marylebone, Shoreditch, Spitalfields, Brixton and Peckham.
• Markets with street-food stalls: Borough Market, Camden Market and Old Spitalfields Market.
• Where the boom began: Brixton Village, home of the first Honest Burgers restaurant in 2011.
• Local style: the “dirty burger”, a soft bun loaded with cheese and sauce.
• Currency: pound sterling (GBP), the only currency our London prices are quoted in.
• What our guides check: that each branch is still trading, since several London burger groups closed sites in 2026.

Every guide we publish on London is dated and lists only venues, addresses, prices and ratings we could verify. To compare London with other cities, browse all our burger restaurant guides.