Stepping into an Argentine steakhouse… Luckily I was craving steak that week…

Surprisingly one of my uncles, from MummyGeek’s side, and his family moved into London recently. They had lived in Plymouth for more than two decades and then decided to pack it all in and come to with live us for a fun life I guess. Heheheh. Probably Plymouth was too boring for them…

On this day I just started learning to drive, and I was practically scared to death. I may have a nice instructor but I think I’m going to be awful… After the lesson I went to Miss Pinky’s to drown my sorrows…

And not far from where Miss Pinky and co. live is an Argentine steakhouse. It was my aunt’s birthday that week – that’s how we ended up there… Apparently my cousins work around where Miss Pinky lives – for nearly a year, and we didn’t know… Woah. Close to home… We haven’t seen my uncle and family for around 10 years. I think we were all too busy to talk and have a get together… And now I think we’ll be seeing them more often… 😅

My youngest cousin of the two (who apparently dines at this place quite often) ordered for us all… Looks like he knows more about food than I do. Heheheh. Quite the meat eater. Five of us had the Parrillada but without the black pudding. And I took pictures as usual – thankfully my cousins didn’t think I was a strange person! Phew! 

Mr Stingy seemed to have gone all vegetarian. He’s a diabetic now. So low calories, low fat, no sugar diet for him. I must do the same… 😪

I had a rare steak! It was really rare… Sometimes restaurants cook rare and make it medium rare. Not in this case. I’ve grown accustomed to eating raw meat, but it was almost tough to cut through where the muscle and fat join together. Sausage was grilled nicely. Potatoes cooked nicely… Hmmm, this makes me want to find another steakhouse… There’s actually one in East Street Market, maybe I should go and try it out. I was stuffed after this! 

Time for dessert… I had this lemon sorbet with sparkling white wine… Oooooh. I could feel the alcohol seeping through my blood. The elder-younger cousin also had one of these without the alcohol… Weren’t sure if I should’ve just drunk the white wine out of the cup instead of spooning it. Heheh. 😅

Here’s the other desserts… MummyGeek and Mr Stingy didn’t have any… Nothing to offer for diabetics unfortunately…

Well, I think the total cost was over £200. My uncle and aunt paid. Hmmm, maybe we should meet once a year for this type of dining… we should pay our individual meals next time!

It’s a nice place to go to, but we got quite a dark corner… I bet It’ll be busy during Valentine’s Day!

Unfortunately they’ve closed down… so quick!

A new year, a new restaurant.

This year a hot dog joint has opened on the Walworth Road, well it opened last year during Christmas week and that’s probably not a good time to start a restaurant, now is it?! 

After what was considered a long day at work (it’s awful working alone covering for others… you actually get no rest and you’re just thinking what to do next all the time 😦 kept dreaming of a long awaited sleep)…

Dinky’s Hot Dogs have replaced a store. I forgot what the previous store was. Already had passed this on a bus and already started looking to see if there was a menu online, and WOW, they’ve already started their website!! Cool!! They are already set up on the Internet world, whereas a lot of other places wouldn’t have dreamed of doing things so quickly! 

So I went in, and I think the owner and staff member were quite surprised to see a customer enter the door. After looking and re-looking at the menu that day, I decided to go for my original plan… ^_^

I sat there for quite a while and saw people coming and going, so took a few pics whilst waiting that evening, and also started chatting to the staff member. Hmmm, I think they need some music!!

My food came out… it was kind of a slow service as there was only one till and one cook! But nevertheless it will pick up and hopefully more staff will be employed. 

Since it was Christmas, it was difficult for them to get trays to serve the food for those eating in, so we were wasting bags. Nevermind. First time restaurants will often pick up later. I hope!

So I ordered the expensive hot dogs. The beef brisket hot dog and curly fries came out first. To me it looked like there wasn’t enough beef brisket, But actually it is a lot-ish. The frankfurter sausages they use are quite big – so no weeny frankfurters are used here! Sauce in the beef brisket was not bad either. Curly fries came out hot and tasty, which I was happy with.

Apologies for my messy ketchup :p … the one thing I wanted was the corndog! Remember I wanted to try this out in New York but couldn’t find it because they only make this stuff in the Mid-West like Texas or somewhere. ¬_¬” So I’m really happy Dinky’s have it. I took a picture of a bad side sorry. The sausage they use looks like it’s split into half, coated into their sweet batter and fried. I got two pieces so that’s fine with me. And for £1.99, that isn’t bad stuff!!! I actually liked it, although quite big.

Moving on from saucy breakfast adverts we will now move onto burgers and fries. （・∀・）

After a long day of searching Shaun the Sheep statues I needed a massive long break. Wow, I can’t believe my breakfast lasted that long. A full 6 hours.

I’ve been wanting to try out Shake Shack for a long while but wanted to wait for things to die down a little bit. I think I went at a great time because when I got there only a few people were waiting but the queue became longer afterwards.

I ordered my food and I asked where the seating areas… There’s 3 seating areas: side part on the outside piazza, a part in the centre and one indoor bit (which is where I sat).

I had the Shack Stack burger with fries and a regular diet coke. 

The Shake Stack burger consists of a mushroom fried in batter, a cheeseburger topped with slice of tomato and lettuce. Looks massive but it isn’t really. Small for a burger that cost £8.50! Expensive. I think the burger itself was quite boring compared to the Five Guys burger I had the other day. I had to separate the mushroom from the burger because it was hard to bite from top to bottom. (Does that make any sense to you?).

Total cost came to £14.20. I was quite disappointed with the food really – size and all. I actually went back to Five Guys the next day just to make sure I was making the right decision in that I like Fives Guys more than Shake Shack.

It was my birthday on March 25th! Yay!!

Every year I try to do something different and I ended up spending the morning with DaddyChef at the dentist. ¬,¬” Not my idea of a great birthday… But thankfully I made a lucky escape to go and watch Cats The Musical. 

I was so hungry by the time I got to the theatre and luckily I had enough time to go and eat something before the show started. Eating in the high end the day before and then making my way to the low end the next day… 😛

I’ve been dying to try out Five Guys (for a very long time) which was right next door to the theatre and I’ve been waiting to go with Miss Pinky and Mr Picky at some point, but at every opportunity we ended up doing something different… so I made the executive decision: to try it out alone (as usual)!

Five Guys – Argyll Street

At Five Guys you have a choice of 8 burgers and 4 types of hot dogs… I think if you’re lucky you get to try out the breakfast menu, but I don’t think I’ll be getting up too early to go and eat breakfast in the West End… A guy behind me thought he could jump the queue and order before me… what a cheek… But at least he realised his mistake and made his way back to the queue…! 😛 I chose the Cheeseburger, asked for a lot of toppings and mayo. I also chose to have a soft drink and salted fries. I think the person serving me was not impressed at how many toppings I wanted… I was hungry… Not apologising for my appetite.

As I waited I noticed that the kitchen is in open view which makes you realise how much team work is needed in this place… I would be feeling very conscientious of people staring if it were me on the other side…

Back to the food… I was a little surprised with the self serving drinks machines which I had already witnessed in New York the week before. Pretty amazing… (forgot to take a picture).

My cheeseburger is actually a whopping double cheeseburger, it doesn’t look pretty but it tasted amazing. It definitely doesn’t taste like a McDonald’s burger and you can taste the juiciness of the beef straight away. I think I was happy with all my toppings as I feel like I didn’t have enough, I enjoyed eating those grilled mushrooms too – very tasty. 

I had a lot of fries in the bag so this is not the full amount I got. There was a lot to feed at least two people. ^_^

Couldn’t finish it all because I had to get to my seat but I’m likely to go and try it out again!! ^_^ 

Rushing to see Cats!!!

Total cost came to around £13.25…burger cost £8, fries £2.75 and soda was £2.50 (found the receipt in my pocket of receipts!). It would’ve been cheaper in the USA.

My geeky rating: 4.5/5

– Tasty, tasty burger – appearances does not matter in this case

– Loved the amount of fries 

– Grilled mushrooms is the best topping

– Drinks machine is fun to use… makes you feel like you’re in the US.

– Expensive for a burger meal – it’s cheaper in the US!! 

Address:  5-6 Argyll Street, London W1F 7TE

Telephone: 020 7434 3407

Website: https://www.fiveguys.co.uk/

Ah it’s been a while since I’ve been out to eat and plus have a catch up with Miss Money and Mr Games. Sometimes I miss these two because they can’t stop bickering like an old couple (fun bickering of course), but all three of us are good friends.

I made the choice of wanting to go to Bodean’s because I know it’s American dining style, the food is in big portions and it’s in Poland Street (in between Soho and Oxford Street) PLUS I’ve been wanting to go to this restaurant for a long time. But first we had a small look at TGI Fridays before making our final decision to go here… Mr Games almost took us in the wrong direction but I definitely remembered it wasn’t towards the Regent Street area. 

There are two sections in the dining area. I’m afraid I forgot to take a picture of the outside and inside, but you can’t miss it when you pass the Yo! Sushi (the original one). The top dining area you can order certain foods but in the bottom half you can order everything! You need to book a table if you want to sit downstairs, if you don’t book you will have to wait. 😦

First we ordered our food and drinks. We all ordered mocktails…

Mr Games had this big massive plate of macaroni cheese and chicken. He didn’t finish it, but it did taste good. 

Miss Money wanted ribs so she ordered the full rack of ribs which came with chips and coleslaw. Ribs were ok.

And I ordered the burnt ends with pulled pork. Ummm. The burnt ends are beef brisket which was dry and not like the very tender beef brisket I usually eat. This was dressed with BBQ sauce. The pulled pork on the other hand was probably the best thing on the plate. Even the other two agreed that they liked the pulled pork! ^_^ I made a good choice of food as the other two didn’t finish their food…

In the end we all ended up in Starbucks in Regent Street. I wanted to try out their Filter White coffee… Way too strong. I’ve had a better version in Dulwich.