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Frankie's Burgers is a fast food restaurant that serves delicious burgers made by the famous Frankie Fenner. They have multiple locations in Cape Town, including FFMM Woodstock and We Are Egg (Cavendish), as well as a street location on Shortmarket Street. In addition, they will also be taking over the food truck at the Beau Constantia weekend market for limited hours on Saturdays and Sundays. Please note that they will be closed on certain days during the festive season. Don't miss out on their mouth-watering burgers!

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28/10/2026

We’ve been wanting to make a miso mushroom burger for as long as we can remember. Nothing particularly outrageous. Just a really beautiful combination of ingredients, built around one of our favourite things in the world of food – that deep, savoury, almost impossible-to-put-your-finger-on deliciousness that is umami. And if there’s one ingredient that knows a thing or two about umami, it’s miso 🤤 Introducing the Miso Mushroom Burger 🍔🔥 At its foundation is our beef burger, piled high with rich, buttery miso mushrooms and melty mozzarella. Then comes a confit garlic aioli for a little creamy indulgence, and a chopped pickle gremolata to bring some brightness, freshness and tang to the whole affair. It’s earthy, savoury, creamy, with just the right amount of acidity to balance everything out. Nothing over complicated but definitely elevated. Just a handful of really good ingredients that happen to work beautifully together. A concept that’s been locked in our burger vault for YEARS! And with October coming to a close and only a handful of Burger Fridays left in the year, we figured it was about time we stopped talking about making this one and actually made the damn thing 😌 Here’s how it’s going down…

Miso Mushroom Burger 🍄🍔
– Beef Burger
– Miso Mushrooms
– Chopped Pickle Gremolata
– Confit Garlic Aioli
– Mozzarella
– Jason Milk Bun

🍔🍺 No matter the weather, come join us at FFMM Woodstock this week for Burger Friday between 12:00 – 14:00.⁠ Limited burgers. First come, first serve. Get there early to avoid disappointment!

🍔🍔📦✨ Our Frankie’s DIY Burger Boxes are R280 this week and contain everything you need to make TWO of this week’s burger – Make sure to place your orders before 4pm this Thursday at [email protected] – for collection or delivery on Friday.

21/10/2026

If you’ve spent any time down the rabbit hole of Japanese food videos, chances are you’ve come across the legendary 7-Eleven egg sando 🥚🇯🇵 Yup, we’re talking about those ridiculously soft, fluffy egg salad sandwiches that people seem willing to cross entire cities (and occasionally oceans) to get their hands on. A humble convenience store sandwich that’s somehow achieved cult status. And by all accounts, deservedly so. Naturally, we looked at that and thought... what if we put it on a beef burger? 🤔 Now, we know egg salad on a burger might raise a few eyebrows, but stay with us here! Because we’ve taken that glorious little sandwich as our starting point, thrown in a few more of our favourite Japanese flavours, and turned the whole thing into a little love letter to Japanese food culture. Introducing the Japanese Egg Salad Burger 🍔🔥 Starting with an FFMM beef burger dipped in house teriyaki for a beautiful sweet and savoury glaze, we’re piling on creamy Japanese egg salad, melty mozzarella and Japanese pickles for a little tang and crunch. Then comes a charred spring onion, togarashi & Kewpie mayo bringing some smoky, creamy goodness and a gentle warmth to the party. All tucked into a toasted Jason milk bun. It’s sweet, savoury, creamy, tangy and just a little bit kooky ode to Japan. Probably not what you’d expect to find coming out of a butchery in Woodstock, but eight years into Burger Friday, we’re still finding new things to get excited about. And that’s half the fun 😂🙌 Here’s how it’s going down…

Japanese Egg Salad Burger 🇯🇵🥚🍔
– Teriyaki Dipped Beef Burger
– Japanese Egg Salad
– Charred Spring Onion Togarashi Kewpie Mayo
– Japanese Pickles
– Mozzarella
– Jason Milk Bun

🍔🍺 No matter the weather, come join us at FFMM Woodstock this week for Burger Friday between 12:00 – 14:00.⁠ Limited burgers. First come, first serve. Get there early to avoid disappointment!

🍔🍔📦✨ Our Frankie’s DIY Burger Boxes are R280 this week and contain everything you need to make TWO of this week’s burger – Make sure to place your orders before 4pm this Thursday at [email protected] – for collection or delivery on Friday.

14/10/2026

Every so often, Burger Friday gives us an opportunity to celebrate something a little bigger than just a really good burger. And this week is one of those occasions 🤍 Towards the end of our hunting season, we had the absolute privilege of hosting Fjällräven Hunting here in SA. An opportunity to share a little of what conscious hunting looks like on our side of the world. Learn from one another and celebrate a shared respect for nature, responsible hunting and knowing exactly where our food comes from. Different landscapes, different traditions, but plenty of common ground. And a pretty special cultural exchange 🇿🇦🇸🇪 So, with some very special venison harvested during our time together we thought we’d continue that cultural exchange in the kitchen. And what could be more Swedish than meatballs? 😌 Introducing the Fjällräven Swedish Meatball Burger 🍔🔥 We’ve taken inspiration from that glorious Swedish classic of meatballs, gravy, lingonberry jam and mash, and given it our Frankie’s treatment. A lamb and eland meatball burger, topped with a rich demi-glace mayo (demi-glace... think deeply concentrated gravy), sweet-tart lingonberry & cranberry jam, nutty Grevé cheese and dill pickles to cut through all that richness. And because you can’t have Swedish meatballs without the mash, we’ve tucked the whole lot into a soft Jason Bakery potato bun. Close enough, we reckon! A massive thank you to the Fjällräven team for the time spent together, the stories shared and the opportunity to learn from one another. We’re proud to have been part of it. Here’s how it’s going down…

Fjallraven Swedish Meat Ball Burger 🦊🇸🇪🍔
– Lamb and Eland Swedish Meatball Burger
– Demi-Glace Mayo
– Lingonberry and Cranberry Jam
– Sliced Grevé Cheese
– Dill Pickles
– Jason Potato Bun

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07/10/2026

As you may have noticed, we’ve been getting a little carried away lately. There’s been pulled lamb ribs. Mac & cheese piled inside a burger. Booze in sauces. Booze in jam. More meat on top of meat. Collaborations. Roosterkoek. The works. We loved it all 😂 But after a few weeks of Burger Fridays that required quite a lot of explaining – and possibly a lie-down afterwards – this week we felt like making something that needs very little introduction. Just a really f* delicious cheeseburger. So, let us introduce the Bacon Hot Honey Cheese Burger 🍯🥓🍔🔥 Chef had this one sitting in the back pocket for a while, and it’s exactly the kind of burger we love – familiar enough that you know immediately what you’re getting into, but with just enough going on to still keep things interesting. At it’s foundation – our beef burger. Dressed in a melty blanket of yellow cheddar, then topped with crispy bacon that we’ve generously coated in a gorgeous hot honey (salty, sticky, sweet, with a gentle chilli kick that creeps in behind it). Then comes a welcomed hit of our creamy house ranch, house pickles for the necessary tang and crunch, and shredded lettuce to freshen the whole situation up. No second patty. No pulled meat on top. No pasta where pasta probably has no business being. Just proper beef, bacon, cheese, pickles, ranch and that sticky hot honey doing exactly what they’re supposed to do 🤤 Here’s how it’s going down…

Bacon Hot Honey Cheese Burger 🍯🥓🍔
– Beef Burger
– Bacon Hot Honey
– House Ranch
– Yellow Cheddar
– House Pickles
– Shredded Lettuce
– Jason Milk Bun

🍔🍺 No matter the weather, come join us at FFMM Woodstock this week for Burger Friday between 12:00 – 14:00.⁠ Limited burgers. First come, first serve. Get there early to avoid disappointment!

🍔🍔📦✨ Our Frankie’s DIY Burger Boxes are R280 this week and contain everything you need to make TWO of this week’s burger – Make sure to place your orders before 4pm this Thursday at [email protected] – for collection or delivery on Friday.

30/09/2026

There are some things Americans do with food that we’re not entirely sure we understand. And then there’s serving a giant scoop of mac & cheese on the side of an already enormous plate of meat. But that, we understand completely 😌🇺🇸 We’ve actually been talking about making a mac & cheese burger for a really long time. Not a neat little crumbed mac & cheese patty. Not a carefully constructed square that behaves itself when you pick the burger up. We’re talking proper, creamy, loose, gooey mac & cheese – the kind you’d usually find piled alongside something meaty on an American table. Delicious! But in this scenario, we’ve decided the side of the plate is a waste of valuable real estate. Introducing the Buffalo Trace Mac N Cheese Burger 🥃🧀🍔 Our 100% grass-fed, free-range beef burger, layered with a glorious blanket of white cheddar, topped with a generous dollop of creamy mac & cheese and finished with a sticky Buffalo Trace Bourbon BBQ sauce and a few bread & butter pickles to bring the sweet, sharp, vinegary crunch needed to cut through it all. It’s cheesy on cheesy. Beefy. Bourbon-y. Saucy. Almost certainly going to require both hands and several napkins 🤤🔥 And because we’re committing fully to the bit, we’ll be pouring Dirty Buffaloes on Friday too – Buffalo Trace and Coke, cold and simple and very good alongside this showstopper. Here’s how it’s going down…

Buffalo Trace Mac N Cheese 🥃🧀🍔
– Beef Burger
– Creamy Mac n Cheese
– Buffalo Trace BBQ Sauce
– Bread and Butter Pickles
– White Cheddar
– Milk Bun

🍔🍺 No matter the weather, come join us at FFMM Woodstock this week for Burger Friday between 12:00 – 14:00.⁠ Limited burgers. First come, first serve. Get there early to avoid disappointment!

🍔🍔📦✨ Our Frankie’s DIY Burger Boxes are R280 this week and contain everything you need to make TWO of this week’s burger – Make sure to place your orders before 4pm this Thursday at [email protected] – for collection or delivery on Friday.

22/09/2026

Heritage Day landing smack bang in the middle of the week has presented us with a small logistical problem. Burger Friday is, traditionally, on a Friday. Heritage Day is on Thursday. And this burger is far too bloody good to serve for just one day. So we’ve made an executive decision: this week, Friday starts on Wednesday 😌🔥 For three days – Wednesday, Thursday AND Friday – we’re lighting the fires at Woodstock and serving this year’s Heritage Burger, made with our good mates at Donkey Long Tong. If you’ve been around here a while, you might remember this isn’t our first Heritage rodeo together. Last year we built a Staanrib Dombolo Burger with Jason and the Donkey crew. This year, we’ve gone back to the fire and piled a few more of our favourite South African braai things into one hell of a burger. So, introducing the FFMM x Donkey Long Tong Heritage Burger 🇿🇦🔥🍔 A burger built around the South African fire. Our beef burger topped with pulled Staanrib – lamb ribs slowly cooked standing alongside the fire until the fat renders and turns crispy and the meat gets ridiculously tender. Then come the Oepsies: gloriously old-school sweet cherries wrapped in salty bacon, chopped and loaded on top. Cumin Boerenkaas, biltong & rosemary spiced mayo, and because there was absolutely no way this thing was going into a regular bun, the whole lot gets tucked into house-made roosterkoek. Smoky, salty, sweet, rich, cheesy, meaty and unapologetically South African – a little celebration of the flavours and rituals that happen when we gather around a fire to cook. Burger Wednesday. Burger Thursday. Burger Friday. 🔥🔥🔥 Come hungry. Here’s how it’s going down…

FFMM x Donkey Long Tong Heritage Burger 🇿🇦🍔🔥
– Beef Burger
– Pulled Staanrib
– Chopped Cherry Bacon Oepsies
– Cumin Boerenkaas
– Biltong & Rosemary Spiced Mayo
– Roosterkoek

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09/09/2026

This week we’ve teamed up with our friends at Bangbroek and Banhoek Chilli Oil for a Burger Friday that’s got a little extra warmth and love to it – but before anyone starts breaking into a nervous sweat, this is not one of those burgers designed to hurt you! We like our chilli where we like most things: there to make the food taste better. Introducing the Bangbroek Burger 🍔🔥 We’ve started with a beef and bacon burger and piled on slow-cooked short rib braised with splash of Bangbroek – a vodka-based spirit aperitif infused with Karoo agave, cinnamon and fynbos-nurtured chillies. It’s rich, sticky, fall-apart goodness with just enough warmth running through it to keep things interesting. Then we took Bangbroek in ANOTHER direction with a smokey pineapple and apple chutney, added a creamy Banhoek chilli aioli, Banhoek spicy pickles for some tang and crunch, and a good blanket of melty mozzarella to bring the whole situation together. So yes, there’s chilli. Quite a bit of it, actually 😅 But this one isn’t about blowing anyone’s head off. It’s mild, smoky, sweet, savoury, tangy and belly-warming in all the right places – with a beef and bacon burger and a pile of sticky short rib underneath it all to keep everybody grounded. Basically, two very good local booze-and-chilli-making friends walked into our butchery and somehow came out as a burger. These things happen around here 🤝✨ Here’s how it’s going down…

Bangbroek Burger 🌶️🍔🔥

– Beef & Bacon Burger
– Cola & Bangbroek Short Rib
– Bangbroek Smoked Apple and Pineapple Chutney
– Banhoek Chilli Aioli
– Banhoek Spicy Pickles
– Mozzarella
– Jason Milk Bun

💋 P.S. Bangbroek are getting involved in the Friday festivities too 🍹 The first 20 people through for Burger Friday will get a complimentary HONEY BADGER COCKTAIL, made with Bangbroek and Banhoek Chilli Oil. And for the DIY crew, there’ll be a little Bangbroek sample and cocktail recipe tucked into the boxes so you can make your own at home 🔥

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02/09/2026

‘Food design’ sounds like it could involve a lot of very small things arranged very carefully on very large plates. And sometimes, sure, it probably does 😅 But when our friends Studio H asked us to create something for FOOD = DESIGN week, we started thinking about it from the butcher’s side of the counter. Because designing food can also mean thinking about the whole system behind what eventually lands on your plate: where it came from, who produced it, what gets used, what could get wasted, and how you can make something really bloody delicious out of all of it 🤌 So this week, championing sustainability, we’ve pulled together a couple of our favourite local producers and collaborators, some beautiful, responsibly-sourced meat and a couple of things to create our contribution to their awesome food map and concept. Introducing the Food = Design Burger 🌿🍔 We’ve started with a patty made from West Coast lamb and wild Springbok (venison being one of the most sustainable meats we have access to), then topped it with mozzarella and a whipped butter made using Cream of the Crop Micro Dairy and our own rendered FFMM tallow. Cream of the Crop is a tiny cow-calf micro dairy, producing handmade dairy on a scale where knowing exactly where your food comes from is very much the point. And then there’s our Butcher’s Jam 😮‍💨 Working with whole animals means there are always offcuts, ends and trimmings. In this case, beautiful little bits from things like our bacon and pastrami that are completely delicious, but simply don’t make the cut aesthetically for the counter. They are FAR too good to waste, so we turn them into meat jam. Obviously. For this burger, we’ve cooked those bits down into a sticky, savoury Butcher’s Jam with our friends Cedar Coffee Roasters bringing a subtle coffee hit to all that rich, salty goodness.

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26/08/2026

Usually, a Burger Friday creation gets one shot. We dream it up, sling it for a few hours, and then it disappears into the Frankie’s archives forever. But every now and then, we make one that deserves a slightly longer life 😏🍔 And this week, we’ve got exactly that. We’ve teamed up with UCOOK 📦🥕🍋🌿 for a special Heritage Month burger built around something we South Africans know particularly well: meat, fire, community and a whole lot of flavour 🇿🇦🔥 Introducing the FFMM x UCOOK Heritage Month Burger. At the centre is a shisa nyama-spiced beef burger, bringing that unmistakable smoky, fire-cooked flavour we love so much. From there, we’ve pulled inspiration from different corners of our wonderfully rich food culture: a sticky brandy & Coke monkeygland sauce, punchy chakalaka aioli, sweet and spicy filled Bo-Kaap curried onions and beautiful boerenkaas. Basically, a bunch of very South African things that have absolutely no problem sharing the same table. And this collab just makes sense. We’ve been packing our weekly Burger Friday creations into DIY boxes for years, while UCOOK has made an art form out of getting great ingredients into your kitchen and letting you do the fun part. So this Friday, we’re launching our Frankie’s version at Woodstock before UCOOK takes it into homes across the country for September 🙌 Which means, unusually for us, this burger won’t disappear after Friday. And if you know our “never repeat a burger” rule, you’ll understand that we wouldn’t be letting this one out into the wild for a whole month unless it was a proper banger. To make launch day even better, Waterford Estate w**e will be joining us at Burger Friday and pouring some beautiful w**es 🍷🔥 A little fire. A little brandy & Coke. A little spice. A lot of South Africa. Come taste it first at Burger Friday this week — then keep an eye on UCOOK for its September run. Here’s how it’s going down… 🇿🇦🍔🔥

FFMM x UCOOK Heritage Month Burger
– Shisa Nyama Spiced Beef Burger
– Brandy and Coke Monkeygland Sauce
– Chakalaka Aioli
– Bokaap Curried Onions
– Boerenkaas
– Jason Milk Bun

More in comments 👀👀👀

21/08/2026

The pop-up that never really left… is finally popping down 🥲🍔 Our Frankie’s Burgers spin off originally started at House of Machines as a pop-up. We moved in, started slinging burgers and, well… we never really left.

It’s been a pretty special chapter for us, but as THoM Cape Town gets ready for a new space, new direction and new chapter of its own, the time feels right for us to do the same. Our Frankie’s Burgers dark kitchen upstairs at THoM will officially close, with our last day of trade on 22 August.

A massive thank you to everyone who has ordered, eaten, supported and come back for another over the years – and to the House crew for giving Frankie’s Burgers a home for far longer than originally planned ❤️ Thank you.

This isn’t the end of Frankie’s Burgers. We’re just putting this chapter on pause while we figure out where the next one takes us 👀

In the meantime, BURGER FRIDAY ISN’T GOING ANYWHERE – you can still find us at FFMM Woodstock every Friday from 12–2pm for our weekly one-off creation.

And hey… if you know a spot where you reckon Frankie’s Burgers belongs next, our DMs are open 😏 Watch this space.

Address

84 Shortmarket Street
Cape Town

To get to Shortmarket Street in Cape Town, you can take public transportation by taking a bus or a train that stops at the Cape Town Station. From there, it's just a few minutes walk to the Shortmarket Street.

If you're driving to Shortmarket Street, you can park your car at one of the parking lots around the street. Some of the options are the Shortmarket Parking Lot and the Mandela Rhodes Place Parking Lot. From there, it's just a short walk to reach your destination.

Once you arrive at Shortmarket Street, look for the fast food restaurant on this street. It is located near some shops and cafes in the area.

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http://www.ffmm.co.za/frankies-burgers

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Fast food restaurants are known for their quick service and delicious meals, and Frankie's Burgers on Shortmarket Street in Cape Town is no exception. This fast food restaurant offers a variety of mouth-watering burgers made by the renowned Frankie Fenner.

One of the highlights of Frankie's Burgers is their weekly Burger Fridays, where they announce a new burger every Wednesday that is only available between 12:00 pm and 2:00 pm at FFMM Woodstock. These limited burgers are highly sought after, so it's recommended to get there early to avoid missing out.

For those who prefer to enjoy their burgers at home, Frankie's DIY Burger Boxes are the perfect solution. Every Wednesday, they announce a special off-the-wall burger that can be made at home with all the necessary ingredients included in the box. Orders for these boxes must be placed by Thursday at 4:00 pm.

If you're looking for a full menu experience, Frankie's Burgers also offers their entire menu at The House of Machines from Monday to Saturday, including wings, hot dogs, beef fat fries and more. And if you can't make it to the restaurant in person, you can still enjoy their delicious burgers through Uber Eats or MRD delivery services.

Overall, Frankie's Burgers is a must-visit for anyone looking for a quick and tasty meal in Cape Town. Their unique offerings and high-quality ingredients make them stand out among other fast food restaurants in the area.