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BurgerMonday
Alexis Gauthier’s Smokin BurgerMonday
When Alexis Gauthier  accepted my challenge to create a one-off burger for the January 27th BurgerMonday at Andrew's Gray's Inn greasy spoon I assumed he would reinvent, deconstruct, Frenchify or otherwise gastronomise the American classic. But the chef at Gauthier...
The Hamburg Hamburger Returns to London
The creator of the historic Hamburg Hamburger has accepted my invitation to bring it back to London to compete in the 3-4 November @BurgerMonday #LondonBurgerBash at Camden Town Brewery In October 2012 German chef Oliver Trific travelled from his Hamburg house to a...
#LondonBurgerBash: the Movie
Judging six big-league burgers in a single go is no job to be taken lightly. The London Overground may stop at Kentish Town West station, directly over the railway arches of Camden Town Brewery, the competition venue, but it's up to you to get your mind and body in...
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...
A Pop-Up Logo for Me & My Pop-Up Dinners
From the inaugural BurgerMonday pop-up  on 24 January 2011 with the Young Turks as guest chefs to the first FryFriday pop-up on 10 February 2012 with Anh Vu and Van Tran of Banhmi11 my dinners have been shared experiences only as good as - but, happily,  every bit as...
Dutch Designer Marcel Wanders Out-Geeked by Blanch & Shock at Galleria Illy
Only a fool tries to upstage Marcel Wanders by out-smiling, out-dressing, out-tanning, out-hairing or out-flirting the tall, dark and handsome Dutch designer. But were you to tie your hair in a bun, as Josh Pollen did, or hide your intense gaze behind protective...
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...
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...
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...
Diners, Like Liquids, Take Shape of their Container
According to the ground rules of the restaurant repertoire you're not supposed to find a dish like this......in a place like this... Yet when Hugue Dufour, the French-Canadian chef-proprietor of the M. Wells Diner in Queens, New York, asked me if I'd ordered his...
#BurgerMondaySwarm Invades New York
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...
#BurgerMondaySwarm Thwarts Atomic Counterattack
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...
Top 5 Reasons Why I Chose Waterloo Burger King for #BurgerMondaySwarm
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)...
Top 10 Burgers in London
[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...
The Colour of Rare According to John Torode
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.
John Torode’s Burger Buns Like Meat in My Hands
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....
BurgerMonday doubles up for El Doble
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...
Rivington burger a rare bit of umami
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...
2 signs your burger will be subprime
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...