Great news if you were either shut out or priced out of tonight's sold-out £80 BurgerMonday pop-up with the sensational Umami Burger: Because chefs Adam Fleischman and John Herndon can't take any Wagyu short ribs, foie gras, truffles, Port reduction or house-made...
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Dirtyburger? More Like Mustardburger.
[slider_pro id="27"] My initial disappointment with Dirtyburger, a prototype for a new burger joint opened this week in London's Kentish Town, is more my problem than theirs. And it may not be your problem either. When I heard Soho House would be entering the...
BurgerMonday – So Good to Me
BurgerMonday – So Good to Me from Daniel Young on Vimeo.BurgerMonday – So Good to Me is my video compilation of photographs taken by Paul Winch-Furness at 14 BurgerMonday pop-ups presented in London between January 2011 and May 2012 by young&foodish. The...
Fifty Shades of Grey
[slider_pro id="25"] The slideshow above contains images of three burgers each ordered medium-rare at Bukowski, an ambitious burger grill squeezed into a shipping container on the upper level of Boxpark in London's Shoreditch. The third burger was a...
MEATMarket’s Greasy Grub not for the Groundlings
[slider_pro id="22"] As New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg proposes a ban on large-sized sugary drinks Yianni Papoutsis pushes bottomless Coke, Sprite and Fanta at MEATmarket, the latest spinoff of his trailblazing Meatwagon food truck. The free-flowing fizz...
In London 2012 July 4th Falls on July 2nd (& 3rd)
[slider_pro id="21"] Why celebrate Independence from London, in London, on July 2nd and not the 4th? No one wants to wait 48 hours more than necessary for the unlisted – and understated – Joe Allen bacon cheeseburger. July 2nd is a Monday. With both sessions of...
5 Mini Burgers on 1 Mega Bun
[slider_pro id="20"] Five spicy mini-patties go into the Inegöl köfte "burger" (£4.50) at Ciz Biz, the Turkish grill in London's Stoke Newington that takes its name from the sound – CHIZZZZZZZZZ – made as the finely minced lamb slowly sizzles over hot...
When 5 Napkins are not Enough
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Seven Degrees of Separation
It is perhaps unfair of me to fault Mother Flipper for slightly overcooking their burgers, missing by less than a minute the liftoff from the flat-top griddle to juicy medium rare. This has happened twice, first in February at its original home ground at Brockley...
Holy Mother Flipper: Look at That Burger!
As soon as I set eyes on the Double Candy Bacon Flipper I was determined to set my claws and teeth on it, too. Only the laws of the jungle held me back. Like a animal dragging his prey to a secure place I whisked my Double Candy away from the onlookers, put some...
The Best £1.70 Steamed Burger in London
Amongst several tiny outlets for baozi – Chinese steamed buns – along Newport Court, near the Leicester Square tube station in London's Chinatown, only the pork bun from the takeaway bun stall operated by Yang Guang Supermarket looks, feels and eats like a burger. A...
Ted’s Steamed Burger Does What it Says in the Tin
There's no arguing Ted's Restaurant's steamed cheeseburgers are world famous. Not since the circa 1959 burger joint was featured in George Motz's Hamburger America, the book as well as the film, and on the TV show Man v. Food. But convincing family members that Ted's...
At MEATliquor, Burger Love is Blind
MEATliquor occupies a hidden site back side of Debenhams' Oxford Street flagship, its only tag a red neon sign that spells MEAT as if viewed through shutter shades. No matter. The bar-and-griddle is the first taxable address registered to the Meatwagon's Yianni...
What Do You Think is Wrong with the Dalston Superstore Burger?
The bacon cheeseburger at the Dalston Superstore in theultra- cool heart of East London sure is tall. Maybe the skyscraper burger is the bar's idea of New York style. Whatever. I identified no fewer than eight serious problems with the one I ordered medium-rare. From...
Bewitched, Bothered & Betruffled: The Opera Tavern Deluxe Pop-Up Burger
One of two things usually happen when chefs try to tart up and upsize something that's already really good: Either the enhanced version doesn't measure up to the original or it's so good there's no going back. The Opera Tavern Deluxe BurgerMonday Pop-Up proved to be...
Beating the Back Bacon Burger Bind
Sourcing the best Britain has to offer can spoil a good burger in short order. A prized cut of dry-aged, grass-fed beef that's ideal for a steak might be too lean and therefore eat too dry for a burger. The finest farmhouse raw-milk Cheddar can re-solidify as the...
What Ava Gardner Can Teach Us About Two London Burgers
  At the age of 14 I was already a liberal New Yorker precociously attuned to injustices in the world around me. It's a shame, I recall telling my father, that the American big band vocalist Jo Stafford (above right) did not have the flawless curves of Hollywood...
Princess Burger Transformed Into Prince Meatloaf
Come mid-August I welcome a glass of pink wine or pink lemonade for cool refreshment. But oddly I'm no happy camper when my Provence rosé tastes like old-fashioned lemonade, or when my freshly squeezed lemonade is no sweeter or pulpier than a dry rosé. I'm funny that...
Wimpy Mega Burger an Endangered Classic in Fast-Food Design
The genius of the Wimpy Mega Burger may not by immediately apparent to those of you grew up with and later grew weary of that national chain of fast-food hamburger bars. But to an American introduced to the uncertain charms of Wimpy 57 years after its launch on...
Joe Allen BurgerMonday Meatup Slides from Buffalo to Broadway
For the opening act of the 4th of July BurgerMonday Meatup at the West End haunt Joe Allen chef Marc Brown decided to wing it. He pulled the tender meat from braised chicken wings, covered it in a mildly spicy Buffalo chicken sauce cut with some Lea & Perrins for...
The Lionel Lévy BurgerMonday Pop-Up Question
Lionel Lévy, the Michelin-starred chef at Une Table, au Sud in Marseille, loves to revisit the classics. The protégé of Gérard Garrigues and Alain Ducasse has made a name for himself with his bouillabaisse milkshake and other signature (re)inventions. He added another...
My Confidence Cracked in the Bistro du Vin Burger
I figured my visit to the new Bistro du Vin at 36 Dean Street in Soho would be uneventful. To update my top 10 burgers in London list I needed only to verify its burger was as good as the chargrilled sensation at the Bistro du Vin on St John Street. I was also curious...
Jaws Drop at Goodman BurgerMonday Pop-Up
photo by Paul Winch-Furness Why did jaws drop throughout Andrew's Gray's Inn greasy spoon when London chef John Cadieux of Goodman steakhouses and butcher Darragh O'Shea of O'Shea's of Knightsbridge revealed their BurgerMonday pop-up burger? Were diners expressing...
BurgerMonday Flips the Lid Over Lionel Lévy’s Burger BLT Provençale
[oqeygallery id=9]slideshow photos by Paul Winch-Furness One of the great satisfactions of writing the cookbook Made in Marseille was getting to work with Lionel Lévy, who I immediately recognised as one of the most inventive or, rather, re-inventive young chefs in...
Was the Gray’s Inn Burger Just Another BurgerMonday One-Night Stand?
[oqeygallery id=8]slideshow photos by Paul Winch-Furness You can measure the success of a BurgerMonday pop-up by the intensity of its bittersweet afterglow. The guest chefs seduce, thrill and satisfy you in the evening with the burgers they've created for the...
V1.0 of the Bistro du Vin Burger Will Get You Excited About V2.0
With great burgers as with great buildings, the blueprint comes first and the construction comes second. The reverse seems to be true at the new Bistro du Vin on St John Street in Clerkenwell. Delivered on a wood chopping board with a groove for a cone of golden...
Nathan Myhrvold’s Modernist Cuisine: Why Simplify Something When You Make It Complicated?
"If you can suspend gravity you can do wonderful things with a burger," said Nathan Myhrvold, holding up two of the 2,400 pages from Modernist Cuisine, the six-volume cookbook the former chief technology officer of Microsoft both wrote and underwrote. The...
Is There Life for the Caravan Burger After the #BurgerMondayPopUp?
[oqeygallery id=1] slideshow photos by Paul Winch-Furness My BurgerMonday pop-ups provide a burger-loving stage and audience for chefs who don't currently have a London kitchen to work in or who, for artistic or personal reasons, wouldn't dream of doing burgers at...
The Next Great New York Burger?
My recent visit to New York coincided with another bout of unease for Andy D'Amico, the chef/co-owner of 5 Napkin Burger as well as Nice Matin, the Mediterranean restaurant where he first introduced the drippy burger (pictured above) with an ensemble of melted...
#BurgerMondayPopUp: The Movie
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