Forget the lottery tickets, you wont have to marry a rich old man (let's face it, no amount of money is worth rubbing suncream into someone's bald patch).
Mayfair has a new kid on the block.
No menus or specials boards, two dishes, the lobster or the burger. £20 each, take your pick.
I'm not talking a skinny little half lobster either, I mean a big, stonking beast of a lobster, dripping with lemon butter and big juicy bacon cheeseburgers in bricoche buns, bursting with flavour.
All washed down with spectacular cocktails & reasonably priced, proper champagne.
The imaginatively named 'Burger & Lobster' on Clarges street feels like a pop up, but fingers crossed, is here to stay.
The decor is... different. Let's just say, if a Swiss chalet & an American diner had a baby & it grew up in Mayfair... it would look like this.
They opened quietly over the weekend & there are no reservations.
My advice?
Get down there sharpish! Go for the grilled lobster & try the cocktails.
It's a great place for a date, dinner with friends or a huge birthday party. You really can't go wrong.
You'll find B&L at:
29 Clarges street,
Mayfair
W1J 7EF
& on Twitter.
Ps... if you do go, tweet me a picture in your bib! This winter's must have accessory, darling.
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NEED.TO.GO.HERE.
ReplyDeleteThis is my ideal restaurant!
This sounds amazing!!
ReplyDeleteWhat I'm trying to work out is how you seem to eat nothing but lobster, burgers and nutella and yet you look the way you do. How?! another fab blog xxx
ReplyDeleteOh oh helllooo!
ReplyDeleteStuff the pre Christmas diet.. Bring me another lobster and burger!!! Can't wait to check this place out!
Axxx
Hi Rose, great find – need to check that out
ReplyDeleteThis is a kind of similar concept that you might like...
http://www.relaisdevenise.com/marylebone/menus.htm
How is that even a little bit similar?
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ReplyDeleteThe limited menu concept. Do less things better than anyone else for a cheaper price. A specialist offer.
So Le Relais de Venise has one thing on the menu and this has 2.
It's steak instead of burgers.
Same price. Marylebone instead of Mayfair.
Kind of similar.
Soooooomeone works for Le Relais!
ReplyDeleteA steak restaurant is hardly the same as a LOBSTER & BURGER restaurant.
This is cool, yours is outdated.
Not the same.
haha - OK
ReplyDeleteGranted, it's not as "meat liquor" cool – but I thought the limited approach to the menu was a similar concept
Guys, guys!
ReplyDeleteThey both sound cool, Luke I'll have to come check it out sometime soon!
LOVE a good steak! x
You really should! it's my favorite restaurant in Paris/London, it's hard not to go there every single week! Till the end of january you get 50% off at the canary wharf branch on weekends. But I'd recommend the Marylebone branch, it's much nicer. Best food and amazing desserts!
Deletethe food looks delicious! xx
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ReplyDeleteThanks for the tip, the place looks AMAZING! Need to go asap.
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wow it looks amazing!! beautiful photos
ReplyDeleteLove your photos! The place looks amazing. Can't wait to get there myself! :)
ReplyDeleteTried this the other night because of this blog. Fantastic food, really love it.
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The Relais steaks are TERRIBLE. With a capital 'T' (E, R, etc...). But Luke's post was right on two out of three - they only do one thing, and its inexpensive.
ReplyDelete‘No reservations’? Of course, there are! What would you call a fact that one still has to come down to the restaurant two hours before the anticipated dinner and put his name down on the list - as opposed to an old-fashion way of doing so over the phone?
ReplyDeleteWe went to Burger and Lobster yesterday and were second on the list when we arrived, assured by a not so welcoming lady at the door that a table would be ready within 1 to 2 hours wait. Alright, we thought, and headed to the nearest bar to start an evening with a drink… And there we were, sitting at the May Fair Bar two hours later with three cocktails down my neck and no phone call from the B&L people. Almost considered having a dinner at the Nobu who always make sure they help you find a table especially on a Wednesday night but thought, hey, I want to try the Burger and Lobster and see for myself if it is worth waiting for at all after all..
So we decided to head back to the restaurant to see what’s happened. The lady at the door had now a longer list in her hand and a fewer customers waiting outside. We were offered to wait again, now at the restaurant’s bar where all cocktails were served with an orange zest on top, not that we cared much after the ones we had at the May Fair Bar. All in all, after having put our names on the list at 6:25pm we were finally seated at a quarter to 9pm. Hurray!!!
The place was buzzing and packed – and no wonder why. The grilled lobster I had was good and a real value for money as you’d expect to pay a bit more for a half lobster in other London restaurants. However, the burger was a bit of a disappointment – nothing wrong with it but nothing spectacular either. I had better ones in.. Byron and had not had to wait for it for hours for it!
I am not really sure what B&L are trying to achieve with their limited menu where burger does not really fit (and is overpriced) and the waiting time which is beyond comprehension. A fully packed place every night and no returning customers? I truly wonder how long they last…
As for me, I’d rather take control over my dinner arrangements, be it a burger or lobster.
My gosh you really captured the essence of the whole area there. You turned the knob in my head that was currently on the "I'm going to not shower, not shave, rent a movie and make a TV dinner this weekend" to the "I'm going to suit up, call up my mates, and spend a proper night out on the town in my favourite champagne bars in london"
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