Five Points, @fivepointsburgers is a fast food burger joint in North Sydney. It shows that a great concept done well can achieve legend status, stat. Another selection of burgers presented by a top chef, Tomislav Martinic, turned short order expert and i’m loving it, F.U. golden arches, you can’t own words!

Five Points has only four burgers, each named after NYC Burroughs, fries and shakes on the menu. Instead of opening next to a busy nightlife hub this joint opens in a business district and only runs business hours. So tough luck if you have a 9-5 not close to North Sydney. Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx and Staten Island have their own burgers. Poor Queens misses out : (

The Bronx

Manhattan is an old school burger with beef, cheese and buns. Add Bacon, fancy sauces of onion jam and aioli and lettuce for the Bronx. Queens is a chicken burger and Staten Island a vegetarian option. Traditional V modern style burger has been a debate recently with David Chang, Chang’s Burger Manifesto , declaring Australians have no idea about burgers because we throw funky shit ( ie beetroot ) in our burgers. I’m half with you Chang. On my two visits to Five Points i’ve tried the Manhattan and the Bronx. The meat patty is sensational, double American cheese melted and zesty pickles. The bun is perfection, balanced to hold the beef, light but does not disintegrate with juices flowing and sauces. It’s real bacon too, cut a touch thick if there is any gripe at all and the onion jam plus aioli are modern elements in this classic looking burger. It’s probably lucky i’m not close to this joint weekdays as i’m craving another one right now.

I love a classic burger but then lets examine Dan’s famous cheeseburger @hongsta_gram at The Fish Shop. It presents itself as classic, soft bun, meaty, cheesy, pickles and bacon. All classic right? But then he does a miso meltdown with his onion, that’s new! And I believe we Australians were lost for so long, presented burgers with meat patties that contained substance other than meat, maybe cardboard? Adding pickled beetroot brought flavour. You can get both styles at Five Points but there is no beetroot anywhere. Add a huge mushroom, the Staten Island, instead of meat is surely a welcome option for all vego’s out there?

The Manhattan

I applaud the simplicity of the menu at Five Points. Another burger going wild for the night is Mister Gees Burger Truck, equally as tricky to get to, only running three nights from a parking lot in Haberfield. Mister Gee also adds modern elements to a classic burger such as the Truffe, with havarti cheese and truffle sauce. Simplicity as they only serve one burger style a night. Easy to assume these gourmet inventions hail from a high end chef like Dan Hong or Tomislav Martinic but alas but this legend griller just decided to make burgers one day. Inspired the the guerrilla food truck scene of LA, Gee got a truck and then had to conform to Sydney’s regulation, only being able to sell in certain areas at certain times and decided to stick to one area. Both these establishment are busy and you don’t qualify as a ‘disciple of the burger’ in Sydney if you’ve not tried them. I love your food Dave Chang but if you don’t rate these burgers you are a fool!

Don’t be discouraged by the cues at Five Points, the grill team are well oiled and those burgers pump out quick. I do prefer beer instead of milk, so if i could get a beer i’d be much happier, except i’d probably stay longer due to my food coma, not releasing my seat for the next eager disciple and thus slowing down the burger eating experience.