Rory has been messing about with burgers for years, his friends and family will tell you. When he pitched the idea to Matt to join as a patty partner, Matt instantly saw that fresh fries and vegetarian options were something he could immediately bring to the table. A burger bromance was born.

We met in the music scene in our twenties and had one thing in common: we both could not see a future working for ‘The Man’. We began Half Man! Half Burger! in 2013 as a pop up in Brighton at The Marlborough pub. The only place that would give a couple of guys with an ‘idea’ a chance. In 2014 we brought an Airstream to Sonisphere festival and provided burgers for Iron Maiden’s team. We also stopped serving to watch Slayer. Back in Brighton we were poached by The Artist Residence, a fancy hotel who had a spare kitchen space on Saturdays. Pop-up were spreading the word but we needed our own place. That came with a move along the coast to St Leonards-on-Sea for our first full scale restaurant in 2015. From the start it was mayhem, queues out the door. It was so shockingly successful to us, and dizzy with ‘instant’ success that we decided to open in Eastbourne the next year. In 2016 we opened in Grove Road, a bit off the beaten track. In 2018 after two and a half years a fire swept through the site and we closed down, the landlords made it almost impossible to re-open with any kind of urgency. We might go back one day..