May 2012
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[REVIEW] The Gun Beef Shin Burger / The Gun /...
“the amount of time you spend looking at the O2 from that deck makes you wonder why the hell it still exists…”
We’d heard good things about the Gun, but we could not for the life of us remember who had recommended it, or to whom.
Had it come to us in a dream?
Had some cunning incognito Gunner Derren Brown’d us?
Who knows. Regardless, it had ended up on...
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“I’m not even going in to what Agave syrup is because I don’t care.”
– A review of Long White Cloud in Shoreditch, from the excellent London Review of Breakfasts
Is a tumblr site a pre-requisite for new cafes then?
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[IN-N-OUT DIARIES] Part 2 - On Roadtrips and...
I thought they liked their meat. They must all hate freedom or something.
During a few days in Las Vegas, part of a US West Coast road trip last year, Irish Paul who had never been to the States before suggested that he’d like to see the Grand Canyon. We Gmapped it and realised it was quite a ways, but fuck it, we could do it in a day. We’d been driving about that distance...
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[REVIEW] Lucky Seven / Westbourne Park, London
“Unfortunately it felt like they couldn’t wait for us to get out of there…”
We’ve all got at least one - a place you want to go to, but it strays wildly from home or work.
Not on the way to anywhere. Places that have no other discernable reason for you to go to, places that you know there’s something you want to try there, but is such a herculean...
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Big Maconomics →
In every McDonald’s around the world, workers perform similar tasks with similar, shipped ingredients stored in similar freezers and prepared according to similar international protocol. This matters to economists, because McDonald’s offers an international apples-to-apples comparison of wages and prices.
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April 2012
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[REVIEW] Ribs, Pulled Pork Sliders and Burgers /...
We wanted a huge bowl of the pulled pork
From the outside, Dukes Brew and Que wouldn’t look out of place in an episode of Jeeves & Wooster, squeezed between a building wrapped in scaffolding and a council estate in Hackney-but-still-the-rough-bit Haggerston. The juxtaposition is evident inside as a throng of well dressed 9-to-5ers mob the bar, leaving the local drunk looking...
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[REVIEW] Childhood Memories / TGI Friday's /...
“The burger bun is actually pretty good…”
We’re sure a lot of you have fond memories of TGI Friday’s from your youth. Even though you probably won’t admit it in public.
We certainly do. To us it was a place of magical wonder, full of bright, garish awesomeness. The staff were always effervescent, covered in their own quirky, idiosyncratic collage of...
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[REVIEW] Theatreland Smackdown / Mishkin's vs....
With the Opera Tavern still burning a hole in our burger To Do list, we thought it time to get around to sampling the high ranking Ibérico Pork and Foie Gras Burger. Unable to get through during the day and book over the blower, we thought we’d chance it. On a Friday night. Smart, right?
When we got there though, we were met with the predictably sharp intake of breath from the maître...
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[REVIEW] Dean Swift Burger / The Dean Swift /...
“The ensuing battle to redistribute the bun was pretty amusing.”
Shad Thames, or Butler’s Wharf (we’re not entirely sure where we were), is an unapologetically 90s estate housing luxury yuppie apartments and offices. It’s a strange area, but tucked inside its boundaries is the The Dean Swift. It is surprisingly lacking an after work crowd when we head in to...
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WatchOur friends at Ben’s Canteen filmed the production of the BC burger.
Well worth a watch and don’t forget to read our original review.
Simon.
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[REVIEW / ON TOUR] Brisket, Ribs, Pulled Pork /...
The ‘best in the world’ lists it features on are definitely deserved.
“So where are you guys from?” grins Aaron Franklin as he de-foils a healthy looking brisket and brandishes a rather large knife. He asks me how I like my brisket. I immediately respond by asking him how I should like it.
Fatty, he says. You want the fatty end. He slices it in half, lifts it up...
March 2012
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[REVIEW] Fattrilogy / Fattburger / Dalston, London
“It’s got two dart boards. TWO fucking dart boards!”
The self conscious nerve centre of Hackditchston (Shoredalney? Dalsneyditch?) is making a name for itself springing up some noteworthy food-based events in the last few months. Well now another one has popped up, the three month burger residency of Fattburger at The 3 Compasses.
It’s getting harder and harder to...
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[REVIEW / ON TOUR] Black Label Burger / Minetta...
“This is certainly a three star level of expectation.”
The Minetta Tavern is part of the New York Reservations Corps. Reportedly, it has a reservations list, and then it has a cancellations list, and if you’re lucky then you might get onto the list that will bump you on to the cancellations list.
So how the hell did I, a C-team food blogger from London get in?
Well,...
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★[REVIEW] The Ari Gold & Jose Jose / Patty & Bun /...
“The ever-improving standard of the brioche burger bun is a heartening thing, and this is one of the better examples”
It’s the era of the pop up, and burger pop ups in particular. Every week it seems we hear about another one. This is a great thing, but their limited life span means that pesky real life commitments can get in the way of checking them all out. But where...
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[RECIPE] Bacon Pickle Animal Cheese Sauce
Last weekend, we defeated rain and spread happiness throughout Brick Lane with Hot Dog hero Big Apple Hot Dogs as part of his quasi-competitive food blogger meetup #BlogEATBlog.
We didn’t think it would be worthwhile doing anything too subtle or off-brand, so here’s our down and dirty entry. It’s a four element topping: cheese sauce with bacon, an In-n-Out style...
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[REVIEW] Cheeseburgers and Gastropubs / The Ship /...
“The burger is now a star item, not a sorry runner-up to all the ‘proper’ dishes on the mains list…”
After spending about nine hours in The Ship, eating at least three burgers (and much of everything else on the menu) and drinking all the booze you can’t help but get a bit contemplative.
But first things first: that burger. It’s a real looker....
February 2012
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[REVIEW / ON TOUR] Cheeez Please / Eddie Rocket's...
“And it looked like a typical diner burger - apart from the tsunami of special sauce…”
Whenever I go to visit friends in Ireland, I always try to find a way to hit up Supermacs, the fast food burger chain of Ireland. It’s incredible - go into a big one, like Eyre Square in Galway, and you can get pizza and fried chicken too. It’s immense, and it’s an...
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[REVIEW] Kimchi Cult x Rose & Crown / Walthamstow,...
“We’ll have the lot, please.”
The Rose & Crown is a big boozer nestled in the heart of the ‘Stow. It’s a classic ‘locals’ pub; the booze ‘n food offers sellotaped to the bar on neon card cut into star shapes, the local vagrant a mere drafty waft away and an eclectic music selection that throws Irish jigs followed by ambient jungle...
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[REVIEW] 5oz Hamburger with Cheese / Spuntino /...
But the fiddling is worth it. The patty is intriguing.
We’ve been wanting to go here for ages. Like, since forever.
I’ve lost count of the amount of times I’ve bowled past Spuntino and had a look in, only to see the standard half an hour queue of eager diners-to-be standing behind, and wistfully peering over the shoulders of those who are being fed. It must be in the...
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★[REVIEW] MEATliquor / London
He’s selling something we all really missed without knowing it: a proper hamburger.
If you haven’t been yet, you’ve read about it, or been told about MEATliquor.
It’s become synonymous with the new wave of London eating, and this widespread recognition has been hadron-collider-fast.
We’d had a few chats with co-founder Yianni on our many, many visits...
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[REVIEW] [Bacon Cheeseburger & Ortega Chili Burger...
“As a certified US import we were pretty darn excited.”
Despite looking like a cafe that an eccentric old Londoner had decorated after being inspired on a recent ‘Polynesian Dreams’ cruise, Kua’ Aina is a renowned chain that’s been banging out burgers in Hawaii since 1975.
What Kua ‘Aina nicely summarises is the multitude of problems the...
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[RECIPE] The Default Burger Anarchy Bun
Burger buns. So many different types. So many ways they can go very, very wrong.
Anyone remember that whole ‘Artisan-style Ciabatta’ debacle a while back? You catch my drift.
Most depressing of all is the bloody awful selection we get from the majority of our supermarkets and bakeries. Typically we have to suffer the following:
The humble white bap. A moisture-sucking floury...
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[REVIEW] Eggy Bread with Honey Roast Ham, Cheese &...
Sandwiches rule.
Bang all kinds of shit between two slabs of cooked dough and then eat it. Simple.
Everyone’s got a favourite but, in this guy’s humble opinion, the greatest sandwich of all time is the Monte Cristo - usually a ham and Swiss cheese sandwich dipped in egg and grilled like French Toast, sprinkled with sugar, drizzled with maple syrup and served with a side of...
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January 2012
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[REVIEW] BC Burger / Ben's Canteen / Clapham,...
“…it’s the second instance of DOUBLE BEEF we’ve encountered this year.”
South West London.
No, I don’t like it either since I am neither of Australiasian descent nor did I grow up in Surrey. However, sometimes we have to go there, crossing the length of the TFL network tolerating trains that stop at “Bookham” and “Berrylands”...
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★[REVIEW] Honest Burgers / Brixton, London
We’d like to say it’s a refreshingly British take on a burger.
Honest Burgers is part of the expanding mini-restaurant movement in Brixton Village (aka Brixton Market). You know immediately from the zeitgeisty ‘Inspired by Great British Produce’ sign on the window the kind of burger experience you’re going to get at Honest - none of your processed twaddle...
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★[REVIEW] All Three Burgers / Mother Flipper /...
We’ve finally got proper American cheeseburgers being sold by multiple vendors in the capital at reasonable prices.
It’s Friday night, and we’re lamenting the lack of excitement our last few burgers have delivered. We wanted something fucking good. Little did we know we only had to wait 12 measly hours…
In a car park, at the rather lovely Brockley market,...
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In-n-Out pop up down under →
All in all, incredibly unfair.
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[FOODTRUCK REVIEW] Cheesy Mac and Rib / Grilled...
Sometimes an idea comes along that is so simple, and yet so totally ingenious that you just have to stand up and slow clap the dudes that thought it up, ‘Lucas’ style. So we applaud the comfort food genius that is Los Angeles’ Grilled Cheese Truck.
What’s all the more awesome is that these guys take such a staple, classic, comfort food and reinvent it with panache too....
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