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...

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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...

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#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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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#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...

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#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...

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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...

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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.  For the two sold-out sittings of El Doble Night, a...

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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...

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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...

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