Andrew's Cafe may have been gutted, but our memories of the kitchen takeovers that transformed a greasy spoon into a silver spoon endure. For our BurgerMonday, SpagWednesday, WichThursday, FriFriday, CoffeeSaturday and DeliSunday pop-ups, we drew culinary superstars...
As a lad, my father would take me to eat at Joe Allen, the enduring West Side gathering place in New York's Theatre District. He invariably ordered us burgers and not because it was the restaurant's least expensive main dish. Most of the Broadway personalities seated...
As creator of BurgerMonday I've staged some pretty outrageous burgers, from the UmamiBurger MNO Burger, topped with Port-braised short ribs, truffle cheese, foie gras and truffles, to the Disco Bistro Original Disco Burger, layered with smoked dry-aged short rib,...
The names of 8 burger greats were drawn from a hat at the BurgerMonday Championship launch party on Monday April 14th to determine the match-ups in the opening round. All quarter-final and semi-final burger-offs in the #WimbledonOfBurgers are to take place at...
The BurgerMonday Championship is the Wimbledon of burgers, a single-elimination tournament pitting 8 burgers greats –  Almost Famous, Bleecker St Bleecker, Burger Bear, Disco Bistro, Dip & Flip, Elliot's Cafe,  Hawksmoor, Honest Burgers – against one another in a...
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Mayfields may be a window box of a storefront East London restaurant treasured for deftly crafted small plates of boutique produce, meat and fish. Yet there was nothing dainty about the steakburger chef Matthew Young created for the January 13th BurgerMonday,...
[slider_pro id="56"] The Pavilion Cafe in East London's glorious Victoria Park is run by the team behind Elliot's Cafe. The familial resemblance is apparent in the careful construction of the Pavilion's new breakfast burger, which sits up as securely in its...
The 2014 BurgerMonday Championship is a single-elimination tournament pitting eight of London's top burger chefs against each other in head-to-head matches. The opening round of the championship will begin in May, with the first of four Monday night quarter-final...
When you hear the meat has been cooked in its own fat your first association may be duck confit. But a beef burger may be cooked in its own fat, too, beautifully so and in much shorter order, if there’s enough white marbling running through the red meat, a good...
[slider_pro id="52"] You don't beat Josh Ozersky, the New Yorker who wrote the book on The Hamburger, at his own game. So when Richard Turner invited Fred Smith and I to compete against Josh in a NYLon Burger-Off at the Meatopia UK Meat Festival in September we...
#LondonBurgerBash 3 The Movie is a Paul Winch-Furness production shot by Jacob Milligan and Amy Miller at Camden Town Brewery, 28-29 July 2013. The featured competitors were: Paul Clark, The Troll's Pantry James De Jong, Drapers Arms Chris Golding, Apero Zan Kaufman,...
The six competitors and I are working together at cross purposes in our designs for the November 3-4 @BurgerMonday #LondonBurgerBash at Camden Town Brewery. One look at the menu below and it's pretty clear each chef wants you to love his burger so much that...
When you ask two body types as dissimilar as a burger patty and a sausage to shack up together you count success not in years but in minutes. That may be help explain why Shake Shake has released its Brat Burger as a limited edition running only for the length...
If you told me you were planning to open a swank restaurant two stories below ground level, in a luxury liner of a subterranean space occupied by the ghost of a sunken, 220-seat London restaurant known as Titanic, my response would be: Look out for iceberg! ...
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...
I ordered my Soho Diner "single" burger with cheese, bacon and egg and asked that it be cooked medium rare. I've put "single" in quotes, as it is technically a double with twin patties. One minute later the waitress returned. The chef had told her the patties were too...
My challenge for you is the same as it would for a Michelin restaurant inspector or, for that matter, a Ladbrokes oddsmaker: From the burger descriptions submitted by the six chefs competing in the 28-29 July @BurgerMonday #LondonBurgerBash at  Camden Town...
Don't be fooled by the footage in Paul Winch-Furness' video of the second @BurgerMonday #LondonBurgerBash, held 7-8 April 2013 at Camden Town Brewery. I suspect Paul edited the video so that amongst 500 participants you see only the ones who don't look too stressed....
Back in the early days of the Union Square Cafe, any difficulty first-time diners had reconciling the New York restaurant's accolades with its informality rarely lasted through dinner. With a comprehensive approach to attentive service that would become his signature,...
[slider_pro id="49"] At my BurgerMonday pop-up dinners the guest chefs usually prepare up to 20 burgers at a time, no more. Giorgio Locatelli is more demanding. BurgerTuesdays at Locanda Locatelli require more hands and greater concentration: 55 burgers are first...
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How bad do the six competitors in the 7/8 April BurgerMonday #LondonBurgerBash at Camden Town Brewery want it? How confident are they of getting the mosts vote? You might get some idea from reading about their designs for winning the one burger everyone wants most,...
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...
When the Japan Centre first introduced a line of Japanese-style burgers to London last year the inspiration was right but the implementation wrong. To begin with, it was shrewd of Tak Tojumine, the Japan Centre's hands-on CEO and floor manager, to go on a recce...
[slider_pro id="41"] The unspoken idea behind the December 15th #4in1Saturday pop-up was overkill. And who better, I thought, to merge four of my daily obsessions – BurgerMonday, WichThursday, FryFriday, CoffeeSaturday – without a gram of compromise than Carl...
[slider_pro id="40"] How do you explain the drab colour and odd texture of the burger patty at MEATMission, the latest from London burger legend Yianni Papoutsis? If you know and love Yianni burgers from The Meatwagon, MEATLiquor or MEATMarket you tolerate his...
[slider_pro id="39"] Extreme burgers are, by definition, OTT. The headlining cheeseburgers at Patty and Bun, a new burger joint and instant sensation in London's Marylebone, are not so much over the top as all over. Open the wrapper and you can't tell where the...
A single cheeseburger at the Electric Diner contains two patties; a double cheeseburger, three patties. The George Osborne arithmetic is a Christmas gift to London from Brendan Sodikoff, chef/owner of Chicago's Au Cheval diner. (Au cheval is French for "on horseback"...
Shake Shack, the seminal and wildly popular New York burger stand that introduced superior breeding to fast-food burgers, hot dogs and frozen custard, is coming to the UK. Shack Shake's celebrated Shackburger will debut in London middle of 2013 in Eliza Doolittle's...
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