About
Do you know that unsettling feeling you get when you arrive to a new country with new habits, new language and most importantly, new cuisine? Well these are the moments when you crave for something known, something familiar. Of course nowadays with globalization, MCDonaldization, and fastfoodation in general it is really not that difficult to get some home food. But let us not dwell in second class fast foods and junky restaurants. If you really want to have a bite of a good hamburger, you need to know the places. Why hamburger? Well it combines everything necessary to survive: Proteins, carbohydrates and vegetables. You don’t need silverware, which makes it ecological (no washing up) and you don’t need to dress up to get into a decent burger place - but you don’t want to look like a hobo either. Seriously, wear some pants.
This webpage came to being as an innocent idea from our Wednesday lunches. Only our first lunch was a vegetarian restaurant and then it all started to go down hill (or uphill really, depends on the point of view). Later, after writing my first review I started to get tips from all my co-workers, friends and other people, on where there are good burgers in Madrid. The idea is to visit each restaurant once and hopefully twice and write a review for each one. Everyone’s allowed to have a bad day, and hamburger joints are no exception.
However keen and open we are, we will avoid mentioning any kind of chain restaurants in here, so to say restaurants that have more than 5 branches in the same town. Another rule is that it needs to be a proper restaurant with waiters to tip and no kiddy space filled with plastic balls and yelling toddlers. We want to eat, not to barf or have a food fight.
The classification is our own invention too. We wanted to liberate our spirit from the boring and usual and create something new, that will in our opinion make a better distinction between burger places that really suck donkey balls and those that will simply blow our senses.
Of course we are open to any restaurant suggestion as well as criticism, but please do not waste your breathe too much. We care too little and we are way too cool for this world.
Kristina
After losing her closest childhood friend to an undercooked hamburger Kristina promised to cleanse the planet from this delicious menace. After tracking down and finishing off - in a variety of gruesome ways - all but one of the people involved in the preparation of the fatal hamburger only the head chef remains to be taken care of. Knowing of Kristina’s love for beer, sunshine and museums he escaped to Madrid. She followed shortly but was quickly sidetracked by the city’s entertainment offerings and tapas outings. She now hopes to regain her lead and exact here revenge by visiting and trying every hamburger in every hamburger joint in town.
Or so she claims. I just think she’s an addict.
Hermann
Hermann, Hermz, Hermes or le Hermann… first thing you notice about him is that he is white. Not in a racial comparison… he just simply is white; like a cake frosting with sprinkles.
Origin is unclear, but we can round it to Mexico, Argentina, Chile, USA, UK, Germany and Spain. Don’t try German as contacting language, the answer will probably be: “Ich bin ein Berliner.” And he will not be referring to the pastry.
He is also tall and skinny and surprisingly, he has muscles on his legs (which I discovered once I was ogling him while he was changing on ski trip or somewhere).
He is the IT brain of this pilot project, my wingman, my annoying spelling and grammar corrector (darn you native speakers) and my conscience when I do something incredibly stupid, which is most of the time.
If you want to make him happy, buy him mojito, club sandwich and invite him to play on kick ass beach ultimate tournament somewhere sunny.
He looks shy, but don’t get fooled by that appearance. He can kick you in the ass by saying 5 words and your self confidence will be gone for vacation in Bahamas while you would question your existence. This of course does not imply to me.
Apart from project Search for Holy Burger he is also involved in various other freebies, one of them being my all time fav Commiecomics. In case you want to know more about this Sheldon Cooperlike creature, or you need a hand with something, please ring a bell, turn around three times and clap your heels.
