Fancy burgers arrive in a department store. Whatever next.
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This could easily be the start to a post about some new porkaterian cocktaileria in Dalston.
But it isn't.
Sometimes if we know the burger in a place is awful we’ll just order wings.
You can never have enough. NEVER.
Coffee shop it clearly is not - vivid, gaudy, and in your face, right down to the sign at the entrance to the toilets that promises ‘THRILLS’. We’d hardly call taking a shit thrilling.
Even the doltish pre-launch copywriting of ‘sexy burgers’ and ‘triumphant hot dogs’ reeked of branding agency oversteer…
As Londoners, we’re generally nonplussed about restaurants outside of the M25.
There is nowhere else on earth, other than Aerobie’s factory itself, that has a higher concentration of AeroPresses per square foot.
Locals were more excited by the arrival of these guys than anything we've seen in living memory.
Can it beat the hype?
Hoxton Square in 2012 is pretty fascinating. Nearly everyone has a friend of a friend they used to work with who had “an amazing flat right on the square” in like, the nineties or something, which they had probably bought for a pittance.
Is there such a thing as a trendy shack? Doubtful. But we guess it’s what they’re going for with this almost absurdly over-the-top New Orleans crab shack style: a brushed-rust bare-bulb conservatory aesthetic boasting a delightful view of the Fitness First squatting further down the car park.