Category Archives: Burgers
Dark Horse
(George Harrison) The Two Chimneys – Letchworth The reason for the title of this review is that the Two Chimneys is part of the Hungry Horse chain, which is fortuitous, as I can’t think of any ‘Chimney’ song titles. It’s located on the Stotfold Road out of Letchworth, and so avoids being included in the […]
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(Billy Joel) Jamie Oliver’s Italian – Bluewater Another trip to Bluewater, and another opportunity for lunch. This time we thought we’d try Jamie Oliver’s Italian restaurant, partly because Val prefers Italian food over many cuisines, and partly because they’re soon to be opening a branch of Jamie’s Italian in Chelmsford. The décor is urban chic […]
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(Madness) The Prince of Wales – Stow Maries In recent months, since I’ve been back ‘darn sarf”, I’ve written ramblings about various local bars and restaurants, I usually publish these on TripAdvisor, I’m in there somewhere – 227,000 miles travelled, reviews in 26 cities. One particular omission, which I’m about to rectify is The Prince […]
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(The Stranglers) Browns Brasserie – Bluewater We returned to Bluewater a week after we’d tried the ‘Five Guys‘ burger chain. Val’s not a fan of burgers, I think the ‘Five Guys’ burger was only the third she’s ever eaten, so I thought we should try somewhere different. I’d spotted the ‘Browns’ sign from ‘Five Guys’, […]
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(Actually ‘Five Guys named Mo’ by Louis Jordan) Five Guys – Bluewater It’s been a couple of months now since I finished my stint in Manchester, and while the British summer has been glorious (and I’ve enjoyed some excellent food) I’ve had a hankering for some ‘dirty’ street food. The sort of thing for which […]
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(The B52’s) Viet Shack – Arndale Markeet, Manchester One of the unexpected delights of spending the last two years working in central Manchester has been lunchtimes in the food court in the markets in the Arndale Centre. I don’t mean the ‘Food Court’, which is a nightmare of fast food chains and ‘mall rat’ teenagers, […]
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(Renaissance) TNQ – NQ Manchester TNQ is another one of those restaurants that I have walked past hundreds of times, but never actually bothered trying, until now. Nestling, as it does, between the ‘Sweet Mandarin’ Chinese restaurant and ‘Luck, Lust, Liquor & Burn’ their menu has always looked a little, well, traditional, or to put […]
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(Taylor Swift) Red’s True Barbecue – Albert Square, Manchester When I were a lad, burgers were Wimpy, in every sense of the word. A recent article on TV news suggested that the British burger chain is hoping for a renaissance, but my memory of Wimpy burgers are that they were like the basic 99p McDonalds […]
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(Snow Patrol) The Rare Cow – Writtle, Chelmsford I have a very dear friend whose taste in food can best be described as ‘fussy’ – he doesn’t eat onion, tomato or garlic, which effectively rules out most exotic cuisines. Indian, Chinese, Thai, Mexican… are all off his radar. So it was particularly challenging to find […]
Continue readingHow much is that Doggy?
(Lita Rosa) Dogs and Dough – Manchester Manchester claims to be the home of ‘dirty’ food, that’s ‘dirty’ in a good, guilty pleasure sort of way, a trend that can probably be traced back to ‘Almost Famous’ opening in August 2012 (I blagged my way into their ‘soft launch’ evening). Well I think it can […]
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