U.K. musician shares hilarious review of Toronto's most bizarre burger restaurant
A man visiting Toronto from the U.K. chose to eat at one of Toronto's strangest burger restaurants and shared the whole hilarious review online.
If you've been near the intersection of Bloor and Bathurst any time in the past couple of years, there's a good chance you've seen it, and an even better chance you've been utterly confounded by it: perched at the southeast corner, with a Barney purple sign and a syringe as its logo, The Fancy Induced Burger.
With another location in North York, TFIB has been smearing its sloppy, liquid cheese chaos across Toronto since 2024, when it took over the Annex corner address that housed FatBurger prior, and instantly earned the bemused — if bewildered — attention of locals.
From its seemingly malapropistic name (did they mean to say infused? Injected?), to its central gimmick, burgers served with syringes full of liquid cheese, meant to be injected directly into the patty, TFIB is perhaps one of the only truly one-of-a-kind establishments in the city, for better or worse.
One visitor to the city, U.K.-based musician Jim E. Brown, in town for a July 11 show at the Garrison, was similarly hypnotized by the electric violet glow of TFIB, and took to Instagram to share his unfiltered taste test of the restaurant's Toronto burger.
"It has a syringe in and you 'induce' it with cheese, I think it's supposed to be evocative of inducing birth," Jim E. says in the video. "Birth is a disgusting act, and food is quite disgusting, but it tastes quite delicious, or appears to."
Jim E.'s verdict? "It's lovely. Proper Canadian stodge." Maybe we, in Toronto, have all been so focused on trying to unravel the enigma that is TFIB that we've all missed out on something truly great. Or maybe Jim E. has just eaten one too many Steak Canadians, and it's clouding his judgment.
Hey, maybe The Fancy Induced Burger should embark on — or should I say, "induce?" — an expansion across the pond.
