Archive for 'London'
The Irrashonal Burger: Bacon Patty in Place of Rashers
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.
Posted: August 31st, 2010 under London, burgers, meats.
Tags: bacon burger, bacon cheeseburger, bacon double cheeseburger, bacon patty, burger, Hodad's, Meatwagon, piggyback, San Diego, Yianni Papoutsis
Comments: 4
Meatwagon Cheezborgers Cooked in 2 Ways: Juicy & Very Juicy
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, “cheezborger”, and two catchphrases, “no fries, chips” and “no Coke, Pepsi”.
Posted: August 20th, 2010 under London, burgers.
Tags: Boaters Inn, burger trailer, burger van, cheeseburger, cheezborger, Kingston, London, Meatwagon, pub, street food, Yanni Papoutsis, Yianni Papoutsis
Comments: 5
Goodbye to Penny University, Hello to Tim Styles
One shortcut to following the global coffee scene is to track the movements of Tim Styles, such is the Australian barista’s knack for turning up at seminal shops at the right time. He’s worked stints at Ray Cafe in Melbourne, Joe the Art of Coffee in New York, Flat White in London, Intelligentsia in Venice (California) [...]
Posted: July 29th, 2010 under London, coffee.
Tags: Alex Anderson, Bratwurst Shop, Flat White, James Hoffmann, London, Los Angeles, Melbourne, New York, Penny University, Queen Victoria Market, Ray Cafe, Silver Lake, Square Mile Coffee, Tim Styles, Tim Williams, Tobias Cockerill, Venice
Comments: 1
The Ivy’s £13.75 Burger Bowls Me Over
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 good enough to justify its £13.75 (about $21) [...]
Posted: July 16th, 2010 under London, burgers, meats.
Tags: celebrity haunt, Soho, The Ivy, West End
Comments: 7
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. Lucious and lushish! The only bummer was the bun.
Posted: July 12th, 2010 under London, burgers, meats.
Tags: bloody burgermonday, buns, burger, BurgerMonday, John Torode, MasterChef, spitalfields, The LUXE
Comments: none
2 Hip Haunts for 2-Wheeled Cafenatics
The London cafenatic’s Tour de France is a kilometre long, with no hills or turns from start to finish. It departs from look mum no hands, a garagehouse coffee shop at 49 Old St, and arrives at Rapha Cycle Club, a pop-up gallery, boutique and coffee bar at 146-148 Clerkenwell Rd.
Posted: July 8th, 2010 under London, coffee.
Tags: broom wagon, Clerkenwell, Col de Tourmalet, look mum no hands, Nude Espresso, Old Street, Rapha Cycle Club, Square Mile, Tour de France, voiture balai
Comments: 3
Splitting Beans, Michael Phillips Wins 2010 World Barista Championship
Behind the top-scoring performance of Michael Phillips in finals of the 2010 World Barista Championship, held on the 25th of June at London’s Olympia Exhibition Centre, was a single idea: how can the processing of coffee beans influence a barista’s calibrations? That may at first seem a snore of a technical question unlikely to electrify [...]
Posted: June 26th, 2010 under London, coffee.
Tags: 2010, Coope Dopa, Costa Rica, intelligentsia coffee, London. Olympia, Michael Phillips, Mike Phillips, Olympia Exhibition Centre., Tarrazu, WBC, World Barista Championship
Comments: 2
Is Isaac McHale the next big thing?
Were a CV a sure indicator of a chef’s potential, as only gullible restaurateurs and food critics are led to believe, then Isaac McHale would already be counting his Michelin stars. 3 weeks shy of 30 and 3 months from running his own kitchen for the first time at autumn arrival Elliot’s Borough Market, the Glaswegian [...]
Posted: June 16th, 2010 under London.
Tags: Borough Market, Brett Graham, Chegworth Valley, David Change, East London, Elliot's, Momofuko, Noma, Pavilion Cafe, pop-up, Rene Redzepi, Ssam Bar, The Ledbury, Victoria Park
Comments: 1






