Hawksmoor, London

Apart from a big juicy burger, there is not much I love more than a big juicy steak, so James and I decided to try the place often touted as serving the best steak in London - Hawksmoor. They have four branches and we went to the Spitalfields one purely because we'd heard it was the best of the best!I went intending to not have a starter as I wanted to dedicate all my hunger to the steak, but obviously ended up giving in - they all just sounded so...

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Atomic Burger, Oxford

On Saturday I went to visit my school friend Omnya in Oxford; not content with exploring only the London burger scene, we decided to visit the famous Atomic Burger to see what they had to offer. Despite Omnya studying here, she had never been before (something she admits herself is "shameful for a Oxford student") so it was new discoveries all round.Everything in the restaurant is cartoon/film/famous character themed, from the menu (which you can...

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Sweeney & Todd, Reading

Sweeney & Todd is something of a Reading institution - my parents used to go there while they were students (it's even the same lady who makes and serves the pies now as it was then!) - and seems to be the place to get a pie in Reading. I had been meaning to go for years, but reading a not-so-positive review of it in another blog I enjoy (Edible Reading) spurred me into going, as I really wanted to see who I agreed with!It's located opposite...

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Bar Boulud, London

As I hadn't had a burger in SO long (!) I decided it was high time I tried another of the restaurants which frequently appears in top burgers in London lists - Bar Boulud. Located in the Mandarin Oriental, the same hotels where you'd find Dinner by Heston, it's very smart and sophisticated - slightly incongruous with big juicy burgers perhaps, but very nice surroundings all the same! It's a fairly big restaurant and when we arrived it was already...

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