February 2011
1 post
November 2010
1 post
Ernie's Station
So there I am in the middle of packing, sorting things out, and even throwing things out. You know that point where you just don’t want to see any more boxes and you just wish all your stuff would magically disappear and appear in the next place you will call home for some time? Well, I discovered that the best thing you can do when you are on the verge of burning all those boxes is to grab...
August 2010
1 post
Fábula
The story begins when modern man and modern woman decide it would be a spiffy idea to spice up their blog and do burger dinner instead of a burger lunch. Modern man then, since he is busy and shy (Ed.:mostly busy), proposes modern woman call and make a reservation. Modern woman, since she isn’t as busy, due to taking care of house, herb garden and kids, makes said reservation. Until here all goes...
July 2010
1 post
Summer break
Dear hamburger addicts, gourmets or just simply people who adore us so much, they will read mostly anything we write…
As you might have noticed, we have been pretty quiet lately. Reason being our (mine and Hermann’s) long lasting divorce process and following process for the custody of our only child, as angel as he is, Calvin.
This of course isn’t true. It might be in some...
June 2010
1 post
Mercado de la Reina
Apart from wannabe poshy appearance, this restaurant has a rather down-the line look. Easily overlooked glass front with grey and brown awning. The interior of the restaurant looks much better than the rest of typically Spanish eateries. A long bar decorates the entrance, there are some small coffee tables for waiting customers but the real restaurant is divided into two floors...
May 2010
2 posts
Hamburguesería Donoso
Out of all the places we’ve visited Don Oso is the least restaurant-ish of all, but it’s also the place truest to the idea of hamburgers for lunch. Hamburgers are the quintessential fast-food; Quick to prepare and quick to consume, there is no need to dither with pointless formalities. Don Oso is one single room approximately 6m wide by 4m long with a bar, a few standing bars on the...
Bestenburger
It’s 15:54 and about half an hour ago I had an orgasm. A midday culinary orgasmic experience if you will. Pure pleasure.
Bestenburger is a little riddle, if grammatically incorrect. If we take Germany, or more specifically Hamburg, as the origin of hamburgers (in German called frikadellen), then the name should be Besterburger or even Bestenburgers. Still, interesting choice of name. This...
April 2010
2 posts
Knight and Squire
Now we are finally back from vacation land, followed by vacation blues and back to the cruel reality of life that cuts your veins and takes your breath away (hint: not the good kind). Yes, I am referring to work. Since the weather, which had started to be nice after a month of straight raining, had gone to shit, we needed something grand to boost our spirit. Knight and Squire, aka: La casa de...
El Bistró de Fuencarral
Although our long and merited Easter vacation in faraway land was nice, the lack of hamburgers - we subsisted exclusively on simple local food - made us hungry for one of our favourite culinary items.
Hermz had been to El Bistro once “sans moi” (I am trying to not to take it personally of course) and suggested it might be a good spot, so we decided to gave it a try.
It’s a...
March 2010
5 posts
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The Grill Club
I have to admit, this was such a bad experience I don’t even know where to start. How about I try to mention the good things first?
The coke came in bottles.
if we look at it from an erotic point of view, this was the shortest foreplay ever only to be followed by really, really bad sex. Something you know happened, but you refuse to keep it in your memory or, god forbid, ever speak about...
Home Burger Bar
Home Burger Bar was the place that sparked the idea of writing this blog. Since it is well known in the Madrid gourmet circles - and puh-lease all you pretentious people who want to start arguing about using the words hamburger and gourmet in the same sentence, suck it up - we chose it as our next review place. Home Burger Bar also has more than one restaurant, namely three which still qualifies...
New York Burger
First of all people, this is business district, so if you want to eat without waiting, be patient and call… several times, until someone picks up and takes your reservation. I gave up after 5 tries and that was a big mistake because we ended up queuing for approximately 20 minutes in a very classy foyer. Actually, all the restaurant has a pretty classy interior: glossy walls, white tiles and a red...
Alfredo's Barbacoa
Now this is what I call a burger place! This restaurant is pretty well hidden somewhere in the depths of poshy barrio Salamanca, where men wear socks during sex and women wake up with perfect make up in the morning. Right now the entrance is covered because of reconstruction on the building, but obviously that makes no change to the every day business. It was packed when we entered and we had to...