Temper to launch new smash burger restaurant concept

The Temper restaurant group has created a new "smash burger" concept for its first London site, which opens this month

Temper Burger is set to open at the former BBC Television Centre development in White City on 17 April.

It will be the first West London location for the brand, known for cooking meat over flames in its open kitchens, and sixth overall restaurant since it launched in 2016.

The new concept has been inspired by Temper’s cheeseburger taco and includes a menu of double patty smash burgers in brioche buns, with beef, chicken, and veggie options.

Sides will include beef-fat chips and chilli cheese fries served with a mini-raclette burner and topped with bourbon pickled chillies, confit garlic, and crispy shallots.

For dessert, the restaurant will offer drunken sorbets, Brigadeiro cookie and milk ice cream, or a spicy chocolate fondue dish that will allow guests to dunk marshmallows at their table.

Temper was founded in London's Soho by Sam Lee de Lagonell in 2016 and opened restaurants in the City in 2017 and Covent Garden in 2018 in partnership with chef Neil Rankin, who has since left the business.

A fourth restaurant opened in Shoreditch in 2022 followed by a fifth, in Paddington, last year.

Lee de Lagonell said the team was “delighted to continue Temper’s journey and see it grow from strength to strength”.