Dante, Jeff and I opened Huxtable in 2010, in Melbourne’s Fitzroy. The restaurant name came from combining part of the surname of ‘Aldous Huxley’ (as our venture was a ‘Brave New World’) and ‘table’. We liked the ring of ‘Huxtable’, and also loved The Cosby Show.
People immediately thought we named our restaurant after the family in The Cosby Show, so when we decided to open a burger shop we thought it’d be fun to name the burgers after the Cosby family. As we decided to keep our burger range very small, focusing on wagyu beef, we still haven’t run out of names!
Here is our standard burger, from which all the others derive. It is basically what would be called a ‘cheeseburger deluxe’ in the United States.