Sunday 7 April 2013

You Damn Dirty... Burger?

So I would imagine that a large proportion of you would either have heard of, or been to Pizza East. Pizza East is owned by the Soho House group. After opening the first Pizza East below Shoreditch house they have opened up a second on Portobello Road and a third on Highgate road in Kentish town. However the third opening had two more establishments adjoined, both as good if not better than the Pizza joint. Chicken Shop and Dirty Burger have both become incredibly popular! Chicken shop in the basement usually has a queue for its rotisserie spiced chicken. While the burger shack out back serves up burgers from 7am-midnight and 1am at the weekends!

This three in one establishment opened last summer and has fast become many north Londoner's favourite burger, chicken and pizza joint. Modeled on a similar burger bar in NYC, dirty burger is a simple shack with a hatch to order. Your number is called out when your food is cooked and you serve yourself your drink from an old wooden fronted fridge.

 Dirty Burger is indeed DIRTY! Up until recently there was only one burger on the menu, a cheeseburger. The burger buns are fried in the burger grease like a proper American diner, to give them that extra beef buzz. Like meat liquor these burgers are greasy but outrageously good! How then can you make them even better? Add two thick cut slices of bacon and call it a Dirty Pig, oh yeah that'll work! Served up with crinkle cut fries and a vanilla shake and you have yourself a show stopping or should I say heart stopping meal! The Onion fries are amazing, they aren't your normal onion rings these have a good deal of batter around them making them almost onion donut bites, delish!


Now I haven't been for breakfast yet but until 11am you can have sausage and egg or bacon and egg for £3.50 with bottomless coffee. Beers on draught include Camden Pale Ale and Berra Moretti plus other ciders and alcohol makes this the perfect late night snack spot for a pub crawl as its open until 1am on Fridays and Saturdays.

This back shed burger shack steals the show at the Kentish town Pizza East and is well worth a visit. I would suggest going for a drink at the nearby Southampton Arms (best London pub 2010) then after last orders stroll down for a dirty pig and a night cap at Dirty Burger!




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