Fat Bob’s Bar & Grill

They don’t trust that you will pay so ask you to give them your credit card when ordering which they keep until you leave The double standard of them asking us to trust them with our credit card while they don’t trust us is lost on them. Also, won’t split bills. Won’t be returning due to this lack of respect for their customers even though the burgers are ok.

What an unusual place to find a burger venue. They have online booking until 3:00pm that day, and after that you need to call for availability. We spoke to a lovely lady on the phone and ended up just popping down for a table.
We were greeted by a friendly staff member that found us a table in the lane way. If you get bored with the company you’re with there is certainly enough to keep you entertained on the walls with all the old signs and memorabilia. Inside is just as jammed packed and really suits the theme of the place.
I can understand why they don’t do Take Away — they don’t need too! The restaurant just kept turning over and they kept up with the demand — and this was mid-​week. What would it be like on the weekend?
We ordered sides first and was very happy with the food. I ordered the Hudson burger and made two changes to the fillings and they were more than happy to accommodate the changes. The Burgers were fresh, BIG and filling. Maybe we should have held off on the sides?
They have a wide range of alcoholic beverages and we tried a few we’d never had before — but they’ll be on the regular list now.
Overall a great experience and certainly somewhere we’d recommend and go to again. Next time we’d like to try inside to see if the atmosphere is as good as outside. Try it out…

OMG. Amazing Burger. Make the trip down.

What an odd place.
First its in the middle of no where, secondly when you find it you will ask what the. Then you head down the side of the factory you find this great unique style Food production facility. I would’t say its a restaurant, nor is it a diner. But its is fun. Open to anyone Fat Bob’s is great fun.
I had one of the burgers and it was delicious, I can definitely see why it was soo highly rated. It was fantastic, loved the meal, loved the chips, loved the beer.
Get your bum down there and enjoy this fantastic place.

Absolutely amazing! The décor of the place blew me away. The burgers are to die for! Service was also fantastic. Highly recommended! Only issue is the parking during the day.

Great burgers, and the sides are good too. Probably the best thing about this place is the value — a very reasonably priced menu.
All of our burgers were done to medium, which is a little on the dry side, but the flavour is great.

It’s good but not the best. Fat Bobs was like a supersized Aussie Burger from a decent chippie at a local. Don’t get me wrong it tastes great and I love a good ol Aussie burger. But the landscape of the burger comp has changed. It is not on par with some of the other top burger joints around town at this price point. But if u want a huge n hearty burger. This is the one. The sunnyside egg will drool past the bun so be prepared. Lean forward and eat it over the table. I won’t tell u what happened to me :)
The Jackie O was good too but again nothing worthy of a return visit. Very ordinary. Again I am comparing my own experience with what I have already tried else where.
On the value side… this place doesn’t cut it. 2 burgers n 2 side chips was already ~$ 40

Placed is decked out with cool signage and looks relaxed.
Burgers are around the $ 16-​$ 20 mark and your standard chunky beef pattie with extras. Good :)
Zucchini fries were pretty oily — seemed like deep fried batter that soaked up oil.
Chips were piping hot! Which was great but nothing amazeballs. Just good.

I think after these guys won the award for best burger of 2014 that dropped the quality. They wouldn’t make my top 10.

Great vibe. Brilliant signage.
Voted best burger in Melbourne 2014 (Herald Sun) — The «Jackie-​O» was the burger that was listed. There are a few more choices and even a vegetarian burger I have yet to try. The others are still too good to go past.
My entourage has been here 5 times. It’s consistently great. The food is great and service is top notch.
If you like a good burger then get in here. Best to make a booking and you can do it online on their website.

Really tasty burgers. Cooked really well and not greasy at all. Gad the pop corn chicken in the side-​excellent!!!
Great atmosphere and could not believe how busy it was for 5pm on a Sunday night.
Really relaxed atmosphere. Staff friendly. Took a little while fir our burgers to come out but definitely will be going back.

We were in the area one weekend to go to the 2 Brothers Brewery nearby and spotted a massive, bright sign marking the spot where Fat Bob’s Bar & Grill is. Our curiosity got the better of us a few weeks later and we are certainly glad it did!
Once you go down the alleyway, past the flashy hot rods and the giant sign, you walk into dazzling space with vintage signs filling up every wall and ceiling space they can find. We spent most of our time there staring (mouth agape) at the collection!
Fat Bob’s does burgers and does them well. They have a good selection of different flavours and cater for the some requirements (gluten-​free buns available, vegetarian burgers too). We both had the ‘Jackie O’ and all up it was a delicious, well-​rounded burger. My only gripe is that they could have been rarer, as the menu had the burgers down as medium and ours came out quite well done. I still loved my burger, regardless!
So overall, I’d say that Fat Bob’s has become my favourite sort-​of local. I can’t wait to keep returning for my American style burger fix!

Great burgers. The location is a bit surprising and we nearly walked right past before we saw it (we were following the curve of the road). I’m glad we didn’t mss it because the burgers are top notch and the atmosphere is very relaxed.
For a Saturday lunch in what I’ve always thought of as a very industrial street there were a lot of other customers. I can see this one becoming a bit of a regular when we’re in the area.