The opening of any Burger joint in Hull always faces an uphill battle but Kicks Bar & Grill has made a good start The standard of independent Burger restaurants & takeaways in Hull are some of the best, if not the best, in the country. Gadgie Burger, Anti Sauté Sauté Club at the White Hart, Beast Burger, Thieving Harry’s, Burgerology and the winner of the best burger in the UK, the brilliant Dope Burger set a very high standard in Hull and you have to do something special to compete. Kicks Bar & Grill gives it a good go but there is room for improvement. Ordering the Kicks Calling Burger for £13.95 for my wife and I and a kids Kicks Burger for my son, we were greeted with a hearty and plentiful basket of food, especially the excellent kids meal. A very large amount of skin-on fries with the burgers placed on top. The Calling burgers came with two pieces of gorgeous fried chicken pieces on top (instead of the advertised Cheeseburger Spring rolls, which they had run out of). Inside you had usual lettuce, onions and gherkin, along with American Cheese, streaky bacon and house burger sauce, all under a fantastic bun. What let it down however were the two burgers. They were over cooked, with almost all of the juices gone, taking away a lot of the flavour you’d expect from two prime beef patties. Whether this was just a bad day for the chef or the quality of the burgers themselves, it took something away from what was a very well presented burger and fries. The service was good and maybe I should have mentioned this to the waitress but they were busy getting ready for the weekly Quiz Night. Kicks Bar & Grill has made a good start and is a welcome addition to the “New Town” area of Hull City centre. With a little work on the tenderness and juiciness of the burger, this will be another place for burger lovers to seek out.