Crust Bros x Black Bear Burger: Meet the Burger Pizza
- Jul 14
- 3 min read
There's pizza. There are burgers. Then there's this.
We've teamed up with the legends at Black Bear Burger to create a limited-edition special inspired by one of their best-loved burgers, reimagined on our award-winning wood-fired Neapolitan pizza.
San Marzano burger sauce, smashed beef, guanciale, pink pickled onions, Red Leicester, and a side of miso mayo for dipping those crusts. It's everything you'd want from a burger, sitting on a pizza.
Rich, smoky, and just the right amount of messy.
You'll find it at our Covent Garden and Waterloo restaurants for a limited time.
Built with Black Bear Burger
At Crust Bros, we love finding new ways to have fun with pizza without losing what makes it ours.
Black Bear Burger has evolved from its street food beginnings while staying true to its roots. Now one of London's best-loved burger brands, serving proper smashed burgers, quality ingredients and flavours that keep people coming back.
We like to think we take a pretty similar approach to pizza. Keep it simple, use great ingredients, and let the food do the talking.
When the opportunity came to bring the two brands together, there was only one question to answer.
How do you turn one of London's best burgers into a pizza without losing what makes it special?
What’s on the Black Bear Burger Pizza?
We swap our classic tomato base for a rich, San Marzano burger sauce. From there, we load it up with:
Fior di latte for that creamy, melty base.
Smashed beef patty because it wouldn't be a Black Bear collab without it.
Crispy guanciale for a salty crunch.
Pink pickled onions to cut through all that richness.
Red Leicester for plenty of sharp, cheesy goodness.
Miso mayo, served on the side for dipping those crusts. You're going to want it.
Nothing's There for the Sake of It
Turning a burger into a pizza sounds simple until you actually try to do it.
It wasn't about throwing burger toppings onto a pizza and hoping for the best. The burger sauce brings all the richness you'd expect, while the smashed beef, guanciale, and Red Leicester do the heavy lifting. The pickled onions cut through everything with just enough sharpness to keep you coming back for another slice.
Every ingredient has been chosen to capture everything people love about Black Bear Burger while still tasting unmistakably like a Crust Bros pizza.
Why We Love Collaborations
We love making great Neapolitan pizza, but now and then it's fun to shake things up.
Working with brands we genuinely admire gives us a chance to try something different and put a Crust Bros spin on flavours people already love. It's about taking inspiration from brilliant food and seeing where our dough can take it.
Some ideas stay on the drawing board. Safe to say, we're glad this one didn't.
Available Now at Covent Garden & Waterloo
Like all good specials, this one won't be around forever.
The Black Bear Burger Pizza is available now for £17.50 at both our Covent Garden and Waterloo restaurants.
Whether you're a Crust Bros regular, a Black Bear loyalist, or just someone who likes trying things that probably shouldn't work but absolutely do, this one's worth getting stuck into.
Salty, cheesy, smoky, and indulgent.
Grab your mates, book a table, and save a crust for the miso mayo. Trust us.
Once it's gone, it's gone.
