Hudsons The Burger Joint

We had often heard about Hudsons from our Western Cape friends, how delicious the burgers were and how sad it was that there wasn’t one in Durban (where we were staying at the time). Luckily for the Durbanites, one has now opened in Umhlanga but was fully booked during the festive season (alas), which meant our chance to experience the legendary burgers for the first time would be here in Stellenbosch.

The menu caters for a wide variety of burgers, all with interesting names, and to choose one would be too difficult as they all sounded so good, so we opted for the sliders which would allow us three varieties in a smaller portion. If you are like us, you simply cannot have a hamburger without chips, so obviously we had to order fries as well. To our dismay they were out of the little buns used to make the sliders, and they were also out of fries at 12:30 during the peak lunch time traffic. Our hearts broke a little at hearing about the fries, but we decided to be calm about it and order a cheese burger instead. The burger bun was slightly toasted; the patty was light and tasty, topped with a piece of melted cheese and a delicious onion and tomato relish. Moral of the story was that it was delicious — and we quickly convinced ourselves that having fries would have distracted our attention away from the taste of the burger (trying to console ourselves).

Other options on the menu are ribs, chicken, pizza and an assortment of sides (the onion rings looked so good — we were a bit sad we didn’t order some of those). With tables outside under umbrellas, Hudsons creates a family-type environment and also one of comfort, which the food definitely backs up.

We look forward to frequenting Hudsons again with the hopes of more delicious experiences. The burger this time around definitely did satisfy our hunger, but not to the point that we felt like we had to roll (excuse the pun) ourselves out of there. Definitely worth a visit!