You might have seen videos of the delicious food from south Manchester's Drip on your social media feed. The fast food restaurant has become all the rage recently and has seen influencers travel as far as 200 miles for a taste of what they have on offer.
Found on Kingsway in Burnage, the restaurant opened on in September last year and has been a huge hit ever since. With the tag line “drippin’ in sauce”, the Kingsway takeaway specialises in smashed burgers, chicken wings and strips, milkshakes, donuts and much more.
Their main attraction however, has been the massive 'drip box', which comes with two burgers, parmesan and curly fries, two wings, two chicken strips and mac and cheese.
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The MEN decided to head down to the restaurant and see what was so special about the meal. Spoiler alert, we weren't disappointed.
The taste test
Pictures and videos of the drip box do not do it justice, it is absolutely massive and if you think you have what it takes to take it on yourself, don't. The fries, mac and cheese and burgers are basically falling off the pizza box it’s kept in and you can be forgiven for thinking you’ve beaten off more than you can literally chew.
Once you’ve settled down and your body has relaxed from the sensory overload of the smell and sight of the delicious food, you have the tough choice of picking what you want to eat first.
It doesn’t matter what you go for first as each dish on the platter holds it own. I elected to go for the mac and cheese first, the one I'd been anticipating the most, and it did not disappoint.
A lot of fast food places can get mac and cheese horribly wrong, serving up a glorified cardboard box of tough, stale macaroni and barely melted cheese. Drip’s mac and cheese was perfect, the cheese was stringy and melted throughout, macaroni soft and light and well seasoned.
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Next was the parmesan chips, which were tasty as they sound, if a little too salty in parts, the curly fries were a bit of a let down but only because they were the most basic tasting things on the plate. However, The Beyoncé of this Destiny Child of a meal, however, was the double beef burger.
Two beautifully seasoned, freshly rolled and smashed grilled beef patties in between crispy lettuce, pickles, melted cheese, special sauce and two soft brioche buns. It hit the spot.
The drip box comes with a second burger and, as much as I wanted to eat that too, it would have been incredibly rude of me to not offer at least one thing to our videographer Michael.
Speaking about the Nashville chicken burger he had, he said: “It was very nice, it tasted like the Domino's chicken wings with Franklin’s red hot sauce. It was grilled chicken, not the one with the crust which I don’t like, and it was seasoned very well.
“The bun was a brioche bun which is very nice as well. The cheese felt like liquid cheese instead of cheese squares, it felt like good cheese.”
Owner of the Drip Ray Ali says his store has been rammed on weekends with customers willing to wait up to two hours for their order, thanks to their new found fame. The former civil engineer, who recently quit his job to focus on the restaurant full time says he thought up the drip box when he noticed that people were finding it hard to decide what to eat from their menu.
Speaking to the MEN, he said: “People used to come in and they were a bit confused about what to get. So we thought why don’t we make something with a bit of everything so they can decide what they like and don’t like?
"When people taste the food they get to know how good it is. It's fresh, straight off the grill we don't use anything that's just sat in a heating cabinet or anything like that, that's what people like don't they?"
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