Brozers’ Shintomicho

Note: My burger reviews are in Japan standards and not in American standards.
My first encounter with Brozers’ Burgers was during my internship at an American IB firm located in Tokyo station. It was the go to place for a lot of the employees there since Brozers’ has good burgers, good fries, and a delivery service that brings the burgers to you when you’re too busy to leave the office.
It’s been a few years since then, and I’ve never dined-​in one of the stores. I was never too impressed by Brozers, but I realized that it was because I’ve never had it fresh. It was always delivered cold. I ordered the Avocado burger (with a side of sprite with +150yen).
Now, I love burgers and I’m pretty honest when it comes to reviews about burger shops. It took the restaurant 15 min to prepare the burger, but when it arrived, it was glorious.
What stood out to me was that they used good pepper in the meat patty and spread butter on the buns. The avocados were also soft enough but not smooshy. The fries were also the good fat fries (not steak fries) and wasn’t too salty.
A five star from me, just from how good the patty is.

My wife and I are on the hunt for the best burgers in Japan. We’ve had quite a few, including:
Blacow’s:
Brozures’:
E.A.T:
I went a little crazy writing about Japanese Wagyu beef and comparing it to American Angus beef in my review of Blacow’s. If you’re interested in seeing that, feel free to take a gander here:
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Whenever you see «Top N Burgers of Tokyo» Brozures’ often makes the list. TimeOut Japan voted Brozers’ in the top 20 Tokyo burgers in 2013 and in the top 10 in 2010, so my lovely wife Evelyn and I decided to check out these burgers on our never-​ending quest on … ハンブーグー EN TOKYO!!! The restaurant is only steps away from exit 3 of Shintomichou [Y20].
I’ve had burgers all over North, Central, and South America in addition to Japanese burgers. I’ve found that bacon on burgers in the USA /​Canada is quite different from the bacon on burgers everywhere else. North American burgers have a crispy (or chewy, depending on how it was cooked), salty, piggy, fatty bacon.
Bacon everywhere else tends to be more like Canadian bacon. A very hammy type of bacon. I’m really not fond of that kind of bacon. Still, overall, the burger is quite delectable.
Atmosphere is casual, almost American, but food and service is Japanese by the numbers. They have English menus and unlike many Japanese restaurants are more than happy to make things to order, substitute things you want or don’t want. ここは 好き です。
The patties at Brozures’ are heavily peppered. The pepper is quite obviously freshly ground black pepper, which was delicious, but slightly too strong. I liked it, but it was a little distracting from the hamburger. Slightly disharmonious to the palette. Also, while I was eating the burger, I was vaguely aware that it didn’t taste like Wagyu beef. I did a little research, and apparently, Brozures’ uses a 7:3 ratio mixture of pork to Wagyu. Unfortunately, the patties were a bit dry. At first I thought the burgers were overcooked, but I now believe it’s the fact that they have more pork, which is not NEARLY as fatty as beef (and especially Wagyu beef!), than beef.
The sauce you see in my pictures is a Japanese BBQ sauce, which is quite different from American BBQ sauce. It’s not overly sweet, and you won’t bite into the burger and be overwhelmed by it. The BBQ sauce is much more harmonious with the meat than BBQ sauce you see in the USA. Not distracting from the flavor in the slightest. Unfortunately, in Brozures’ case, the sauce is necessary, since the beef patties would be slightly dry without it.
Notice how fresh and well-​cut the vegetables are in my pictures. They are seriously perfect. I swear they must cut their lettuce to fit the patties and buns with Japanese precision. Americans commonly make jokes about how burgers look in advertising versus how burgers look in reality. In Japan, it’s quite a different story. The burgers look the way they do in advertising. Look how fresh and perfectly cut that tomato, lettuce, and avocado are. That cheese is extremely well placed on the patty and positioned symmetrically with respect to the bun. But bun itself is fluffy and not compressed /​mushy.
Also, the Japanese have an ingenious way of eating burgers in a «burger bib». I shall miss that bib when we return to the USA.
I think Brozures’ hamburger is similar to most Japanese burgers — they focus on burgers as a food. The entire burger is an exquisite meal, very competently executed and nearly perfect in appearance and taste.
I think most American’s would appreciate these burgers for what they are, but miss the burgery quality. American burgers focus on the burger itself. The patty is the guest of honor while the sfuff surrounding the burger is the supporting cast. Quite the opposite of how a good burger is regarded here in Japan.
Unfortunately, the french fries were horrible. They were almost certainly frozen fries. Dry and tasteless. You can skip them. The onion rings were also probably frozen as well. Dry and tasteless. You can skip them, too. Also, the vanilla shake was very disappointing. It had this weird sweet after-​taste which wasn’t pleasant.
I’m torn on how to rate Brozures’. I’ve had much better burgers elsewhere, and the accouterments (fries, rings, shake) were terrible. Yet the burgers are so beautiful, I want to give this place 3 stars. Unfortunately, I’ll have to disagree with Timeout Magazine and give Brozure’s 2 stars simply because there are just too many better places to get burgers in Tokyo.