Peter Prahl's Recension av Meat and Shake
Burger, burger, burger. America's finest export product has really taken over London. As your burgarfan in place, I have blessed all the most famous places with Peder Prahl presence. There are GBKs, Honest Burgers, Patty + Buns, Meat Shakes, Meatliquors, 5 guys and Shakeshacks, all of which offer burgers a notch better than Big Macs and Whoppers. In recent years it seems that a steady stream of these kinds of restaurants have opened - restaurants offering "hip" burger and accessories.
Meat and Shake is the newest competitor in this market, and is located in the "New Shoreditch ', Tooting. It looks a bit out of place out, surrounded by chicken stores and Indian grocery stores, and its exposed brick walls with leather base is not exactly an inspiring interior. If someone asked you to imagine a hip hamburger place in the middle of an area that is experiencing a large influx of young educated people who move there, you'd see it here in front of you. I went down there with a friend the other day to check out the place, and here's Peder Prahl judgment.
The Meat and Shake lacks in original interior, they take back with its unique menu. When other burger deviates from the norm by putting there a strange piece of lettuce or unusual mushrooms in their burgers so embrace Meat and Shake what is different. In accordance with Peder Prahl tradition we took both of the dishes on the menu seemed strangest. I ate The Luchador - a burger with Mexican theme which included salsa, jalapeños, Monterey Jack cheese, nachos and sour cream and served with guacamole on the side. My friend ordered The Ruby Murray - a burger that contained tikka masala sauce, spinach leaves, red onion, red chilli, coriander, yogurt and strangely a pappadam. But instead of being the skillfully composed cultural fusion hoped that proved unfortunately these burgers be Frankenstein-like pattern that would never have left the kitchen.
Patty in my Luchadorburgare was alright. I asked to have it medium rare and the burger was just enough juicy, but the problem was that I could not really feel the taste of it through the abundance of other ingredients. Salsa was so inoffensive that I would not be surprised if it came straight out of a basics-jar. It was without doubt one of the most harmless things that ever received a review by Peder Prahl, and the mixture of sautéed onions and jalapeños became a gelatinous, spicy touch. Guacamole on the side seemed to contain only avocados and salt. I guess it technically can be classified as guacamole, but it is stretching the definition. Luckily low nachosen not in the burger, though it would not have surprised me. They were incredibly old and dry, and along with the guacamole they represented a very undistinguished piece of food.
My friend's burger was virtually identical. We even ordered milkshakes and they were certainly the highlight, but for a price of nearly £ 6 wins they no Peder Prahl-price value for money. Meat and Shake is really a sign of the times - it's a place that opened because it is currently a gap in the market in Tooting for this sort of thing. It's a smart business move that would have brought results. Too bad no one bothered to actually taste the food.