I feel like I'm going to go on a bit in this review... So if your on the train or need to kill some time- continue to read. If not. Jog on.
When this first opened, I had no clue what so ever what it was. My friend thought it was a gay bar, or a strip club. This made me chuckle. To be fair, it's not your average type of restaurant, if you look at it from the outside, it's all very dark, neon lights inside with graffiti looking art work.
For those of you that still do not know, this is a burger restaurant. They do serve other food as well as burgers, but predominately they are known for this. Myself and a friend went on Friday night, we didn't book at all, but by chance we got a table. Top tip, book with this place - it was pretty busy!
The interior is quite strange, but also cool. Neon strobe lights, pink, blue and yellows, with graffiti like decor. They also had butcher like chains hanging around the place which was interesting. The whole place felt a little bit like a sex dungeon. Can I just make it clear, I've never been to a sex dungeon, but I can imagine that this would be similar to one, perhaps without the food being served!
We were seated next to another table, we were VERY close to the couple next to us, now if your unsociable, it wouldn't of been a good place to sit. I'm quite sociable so I engaged in small and worthless chit chat. Like.. Oooohhhh not a lot of room hey! Anyway, that was the first thing that I didn't like!
The music, wow. REALLY loud. Pumping through the speakers so that if you were talking you'd have to shout or talk pretty loud. I just thought, imagine if you worked here, you'd have such a headache - I'd hate to work there hungover. It wasn't really nice to have music blaring but in some ways we managed to get used to it.
.... If you read my reviews frequently, your know that I'm really keen on good service. Often I'll talk about poor service, and my yearn for good! Those of you may remember my chopper mate Pam from asda. She was great.... Well the let me tell you, our waiter was no Pam, he wasn't bad at all, I just found him annoying. Maybe it was just me. So the first thing that happened was he came over... And sat down!!!!!!! He sat down next to us and started taking our order. I thought to myself, LONG SHIFT MATE? I'm not saying that he shouldn't of done that, because I don't want to sound like he is a poor man serving me the King ! But it just was unusual and too personal. I've come to eat food not make friends!
So anyway, he was just really friendly and talkative. He knew a lot about the food and by the end of ordering I knew about his girlfriend, how he got this job, his pet lizards, as well as his shoe size and aspirational goals for the future. I mean, I like to chat small talk, but I never asked him about his shoe size nor his lizard, he just continued to spout a torrent amount of sh*t. The funny thing is, I just thought, the more you keep talking, the more time I've got to wait for my food! Hahahah.
Anyway. I ordered a veggie burger, I'm now a veggie. I wouldn't go here if your a veggie at all. They don't have a lot of choice. So don't bother. We shared, a Greek salad, hulomi, chips . This came out on a metallic tray. And the tray was left! I'm not a traditional sort of person. But I wanted to eat on a plate not a tray!!! I'm not at school. Plus it was a tray that I had to share with someone else!!!! It was just weird. Nice sociable way to eat but not ideal.
My burger was ok ... It want the best I've ever had. The bun looked cheap too. It resembled a Mac Donald's 99p cheese burger bun. I think it was over priced to be honest too. It didn't have any taste either, so I wasn't phased by it.
COCKTAILS! If you like cocktails, you'd like this place. I'd come here again, JUST for drinks. So long as I didn't have a headache and came with ear plugs. It's a good place for you to bring someone if you have a friend that you don't always have much to say to, you don't really know why they are your friend because you've lost that common ground but instead you still keep the friendship up. You go to places like the cinema a lot because then you don't have to talk to each other.. So yes this place is good because the music will do the talking for you, it's really loud!
They had one that was called donkey crunch or punch. It was REALLLLLLY good.ginger, lime, mint and sugar...it was £7.50 , which is standard and I also tried one with gin- this was also good!
In total we had two burgers, chips, hulomi, 4cocktails, and a Greek salad. £72! I think it was pricey if I'm honest. But that's mainly because I didn't enjoy the food that much! If I start eating meat, I'll come back. But apart from that, I won't be here in a hurry! read more