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Byron arrived in Chiswick in early 2014, when George Osborne's favourite burger restaurant replaced Bridget Jones' favourite bistro, Café Rouge, which had outstayed its welcome by about a decade.
Seven years earlier Tom Byng opened the first Byron in London, inspired by the hamburgers he used to eat at the Silver Top diner in Providence, Rhode Island, during a four year stint in America. Apparently the chain is named partly after the eponymous poet and partly after an old English word for barn, or cowshed. In 2013 the chain was sold by Gondola to private equity outfit Hutton Collins for £100m. There are now more than 40 Byrons in London alone, and three within a mile and a half of our house.
We sat outside on one of the warmest evenings of the year, serenaded by the noise of double deckers and police sirens.
Only Master WEST4URANTS went for the traditional burger experience, opting for the B-Rex, a 6oz hamburger with onion rings, streaky bacon, American cheese, jalapeños, pickles, onion, BBQ sauce and mayonnaise.
I decided to try the new Clucky Balboa, possibly the worst named burger since McDonald's New Zealand launched a 'design your own burger' competition in July and ended up with such classics as Pound Me Behind Daddy, Rektal Prolapse and Puusee Sammich. The Balboa is a fried chicken breast with guacamole, sriracha mayonnaise, pickled red onion, sliced pickles and shredded iceberg. It tasted good, though they should probably add 'deep' in front of 'fried' in the description.
Both Mrs and Miss WEST4URANTS chose the skinny veggie burger - a bunless bean patty with roasted red pepper, baby spinach, tomato, red onion, aioli and Byron sauce. Which is basically not a burger. And as if that weren't enough to upset the burger fascists, we didn't have a potato chip between us, just sweet potato and courgette fries.
Byron is a good venue for a quick family supper. The sweet potato fries aren't as good as GBK's but the table service puts it a step further up the burger ladder. Dive in.
Food (for 6): £78.95
Drink: £28.75
Total: £122.70
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