In December I took my @BurgerMonday meatup group across the pond to New York for a pre-Christmas swarm at 4food, a new burger joint devoted to de-junking fast food. I was fearful that 4food might get wind of my plans and obstruct or otherwise thwart the swarm, but...
To source a generously fatty blend of the finest, private reserve 100% Perthshire Black Angus Beef for the BurgerMondayPopup presented by young&foodish in London on 24 January, James Lowe, the chef at St John Bread & Wine, consulted with butcher Darragh O'Shea at his...
After yielding to the decree requiring all London residents and vistors, regardless of birth, subject themselves to the Hawksmoor kimchi burger experience my twitter friend Charlie Almond responded with incredulity: Oh God no! Have you tried it. It's gross! I sort of...
On Monday 15th November 2010 at 19:00 hours I led a red-shirted swarm of BurgerMondiacs to the Burger King at London's Waterloo Station. Our mission was to elude security, occupy the upper level of the burger monarch's restaurant and impose table service. Our plot was...
5) As the ultimate expression of anti-snob snobbism 4) Few London restaurant kitchens do burgers with same consistency 3) With volunteer waiters serving the @burgermonday mob we’d be doing our bit for David Cameron’s Big Society 2) Waterloo Station has good links 1)...
[slider_pro id="23"] Go ahead, salivate, that's the carnivore's natural response to my list of the top 10 burgers in London. The quality and variety of burgers in London is steadily improving, of that there can be little doubt. But getting them cooked as ordered...
If you've caught up with London's The Meatwagon you may have noticed something different riding on its bacon cheeseburgers. In place of bacon rashers (strips) Yianni Papoutsis piggybacks his beef burgers with a griddle-fried patty of chopped boiled bacon. The bacon...
The Meatwagon's Yianni Papoutsis may be as Greek as the cheezborger guys at Chicago's Billy Goat Tavern, the inspiration for the John Belushi diner sketchs on SNL, but he speaks without an accent, making use of a vocabulary stretching beyond one essential word,...
JUDGING THE JUDGE: Food enthusiasts attending the burgermonday meatup at The Luxe got the opportunity to taste and critique the burger of chef-patron – and MasterChef judge – John Torode. To see the video, click here.
My interest in The Ivy had nothing to do with stargazing at that famous celebrity haunt in London's West End. I had asked Dino Joannides, whose passion is gastronomy and not astronomy, to meet me there for lunch to help answer a single question: Was The Ivy burger...
Invited by MasterChef's John Torode to try the house burger at his new bar and grill on behalf of burgermonday I sunk into this two-hander with hope and hunger. The LUXE burger proved to be an irresistible hunk oozing beefy, cheesy, yolky juices with every bite....
No one has to sign up for a BurgerMonday meatup to have a burger at any of its host restaurants. That's why at every BurgerMonday I offer an event sweetener or two not available to the general public. Â For the two sold-out sittings of El Doble Night, a...
A truly great burger, whatever its proportions and however tidy its construction, is a perilous proposition. That this sandwich-in-the-round sits not only on a bun but also on the brink of greasy collapse is fundamental to its gratification. ___________________ The...
With its lunch launch at the acclaimed London steakhouse Hawksmoor on the 26th of April BurgerMonday officially silenced the naysayer's refrain: It's just a burger. Just a burger? That cliché, if literally true, will now seem less a JAB at than an absurdity to the...
Because steaks firm up as they cook, one way to test them for doneness is the poke test. By lightly pressing the meat with your forefinger you can get a feel for how done it is and how much longer it needs to cook. A rare steak will be soft; a medium-rare steak,...
The El Doble at Txikito (pronounced "chic-kee-toe") Â - a Basque restaurant in New York's Chelsea. The chubby double burger is draped with smoked sheep's milk cheese and peppery salsa especial. The version seen above was requested to be on the rare side of...
The image I chose for the twitter profile of @burgermonday is a photograph of a burger that is both remarkable and British. Why remarkable? Why British? That yellow goop you see dipping down irresistibly from the sides of the Rivington Grill burger is not merely...
If you order a burger and the server pivots away without asking you how you want it cooked, that is already a bad omen. Restaurants that don't elicit doneness orders may not think a burger is worth the bother. (A waiver for the doneness designation should only be...
Looking at them now these almost look more like Mark Rothko paintings than hamburgers.
When I ordered my bespoke burger rare at the Santa Monica  (California) location of The Counter, my waitress asked, "Do you know what rare is?" Odd question, I thought, to be asking a native English speaker fluent in basic menu vocabulary. I nodded yes, missing my...
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