Sometimes there is nothing better than a great burger meal…read more
Recently, I was craving just such a meal.
In London, there are many choices available for burgers. There are burgers which are honest, dirty and gourmet. There are also burgers that are fast and cheap - but not great. There are others that are great - but not even close to possible if on a budget.
But yesterday, I found a place that was worth the search - and the long walk that I took get back to where I found it. Because what I found was a great burger meal, at a great price!
I found Joe & Co.
I was spending the day on North End Road in South West London in search of a few things that I knew I could find in the neighbourhood. Early on during my shopping I spotted what I thought looked like a great "burger joint". And much later when hunger pains were slowing me down I decided to retrace my steps back to where I thought I had spotted it.
The walk back turned out to be longer than I expected, but I soon realised it had been worth the walk and the effort, as what I had spotted proved to be exactly what I was looking for.
As what I found was Joe & Co., where I enjoyed what is probably the best burger meal I've had in London for ages!
The greeting when I walked in was friendly and enthusiastic. I was invited to, and did, spend some time looking over the selection of burgers, chicken and hotdogs on offer, before settling on what I hoped would be a great cheeseburger and fries meal. I was offered the chance to "have it my way" with a choice of lettuce, onion, pickle and tomato toppings and I said yes to everything.
I sat down at the clean and appealing diner retro table and didn't have to wait to long for my choice to be brought to the table. It looked amazing and tasted even better. In addition to the toppings the burger came with, there is a generous choice of additional sauces available at the table - and not in those nasty little packages that I usually struggle to open and usually end up spraying as much on myself as on the burger.
The burger was perfect and the fries were some of the best I have ever had. It was, as hoped, a great burger meal. And at a very reasonable price.
As I was finishing up, I was asked by, (as it turned out) the owner of Joe & Co, who is actually and reassuringly called Joe, how my meal had been and I offered my compliments and congratulations for a great meal. He was obviously genuinely pleased and interested in my comments, telling me that they had been open only a short time and the efforts being made to provide the best meal with the best ingredients. I told him that he was succeeding entirely!
I hope Joe & Co does well, as it deserves to. It's a bit further down North End Road from some of the trendier and more glam spots that are found in the area, but just as it was worth a bit of a walk for me to go back and enjoy the treat that I hoped to find, I can assure anyone else that they won't regret taking a few more steps and building up even more of a hunger for what Joe & Co has to offer.
I'll be back again soon for another chance to enjoy the best burger on offer in London.