Burger King

My guilty place. But at least it has decent burgers.
Ok, so here’s the situation with this Burger King. I stop in on occasion when I want a double bacon cheeseburger when I am short on time and don’t want to cook. The food here is pretty consistent overall and recently the staff has a new manager who appears to be making them work pretty hard. Sometimes they don’t look too happy when he’s there, I can tell by the look on their faces.
Anyway, sometimes this BK is slammed with people from just arriving trains. At those times, you’ll have to wait a while to get food. Other times, there is almost no one in there and you can get in and out pretty quickly. There’s about a ⁵⁰⁄₅₀ chance you’ll have to wait for your food. The place is not that clean usually, with some rubbish left on tables. The staff does clean this but they get busy at times and it does collect.
The food overall is good, for a BK. In my view it is ALWAYS better than McDonald’s. The debit machine sometimes doesn’t work and you’ll have to go to the cash machine nearby to get money to pay. That happens on occasion at this BK, so I just usually bring cash. The location is inside of Waverley Station, on the bottom floor in the back corner. I will likely be back at this BK when I am in need of a well-​deserved bacon double cheeseburger.

For years I passed this outlet and even back then there where pigeons in the restaurant area scouring the floor devouring the left overs.
I don’t even think the staff even bother sweeping the floor any more.
The food is nothing to Bragg about and you still have to wait.

So why reviewing BK when you can find so many great burgers in Edinburgh pubs?
Let me tell you why. I am French and Burger King closed all their French branches in 1997 due to slow business and the fierce competition of McDonald’s and the Franco-​Belgian chain «Quick».
Since then, Burger King has become some sort of cult burger chain that every French traveller wants to experience when abroad. Even Eurostar based one of their adverts on the fact that the nearest BK to Paris is only 2.15hrs away in London [
forget the cheesy music, it’s deliberate].
So it’s impossible NOT TO visit Burger King regularly for the reasons above. Also, it actually tastes better than McDonald’s. One thing though… BK reopened a branch in France, in Marseille Airport, on a day of December 2012. So maybe the place will lose a bit of its cult status after all? We’ll find out soon…

Came here to get a quick whopper. Wasn’t the freshest I’ve had. The mayonnaise tasted old and the lettuce was really soggy. I’ve had better BK :(. Also they say they have additional seating upstairs but they act like they’re paying a 16^th century window tax by having it in an enclosed, stuffy dim space. Wasn’t feeling this BK at all. Oh well.

Ok. I’m going to level with you here. This place has saved my life on many, many occasions. I have a few friends in Glasgow so I take the train back and forth regularly, usually hungover, so this is the fatty, yucky food I need in that position.
Ok, it;s Burger King, it’s not exactly going to be Fois Gras, but it’s delicious nevertheless. People have a go because it’s not healthy or whatever, but sometimes you just need it. You know what I mean… right?

It’s one of life’s great coin tosses. Do you go to McDonald’s, and risk a mediocre burger but get outstanding, gresy, salty fries? Or do you go to Burger King, get an outstanding Bacon Double Cheeseburger, and be guaranteed fries that taste like the contents of a paper shredder.
For me, it’s usually a ⁵⁰⁄₅₀ choice, but if I’m feeling particulrly miserly, I’ll opt for the £1.99 cheeseburger deal in here, where it all tastes like cardboard anyway.

Good place to go if your hungry. You get quite a big meal with burger king. Its located in waverley station so its good for grabbing a burger king and eating it on the train if you are going anywhere.