#6London Loves | Tanner & Co, Bermondsey Street

In my never ending quest for a good burger, my colleagues and I ventured to the cool end of Bermondsey Street for a 'working' lunch. We had a reservation at the warehouse bar Tanner & Co and with rumbling tummies settled into our booth for some much needed meat. 

Tanner & Co is a large, open plan, quirky restaurant a short walk from London Bridge and is decked out to look like an old school gym. There are climbing ropes, ladders and even pommel horse's; to take you back to a time we all dreaded. My PE days often involved running around a freezing hall with in a vest and a pair of knickers with some horrible teacher shouting at you to do a rolly pollie; not something that would be allowed today. But this gym hall was much more fun and inviting, plus it is full of city workers sipping on their Thursday afternoon pints. 

All of us settled on trying the famous burger and waited hungrily for them to be cooked and delivered. They arrived on a wooden tray with a side garnish of pickle, onion and lettuce. The meat patty was pretty thick and meaty, which is always a good sign. My one negative point was that the only option for cooking the meat was medium or well done and being a girl of the rare variety I did find the meat a little dry. 

Having said that the burger was pretty tasty and the brioshe bun was deliciously soft and fluffy. The stand out cherry on the top were the incredible chips, served in a retro metal mug the chips were crunchy on the outside with fluffy potato clouds on the inside! 

All in all worth a visit but doesn't beat my Shake Shack love affair! The hunt continues! 

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#5London Loves | Shake Shack, Covent Garden Review

New York is one of my favourite cities and it was whilst I was there that I fell in love with a burger joint. I love burgers, especially ones with cheese on them. So when I got home I was pretty upset that I wouldn't be tasting that bap for a while. The the gods smiled on me and open up a Shake Shack in Covent Garden, someone up there loves my taste buds and I was quick to jump on the tube to refresh my love affair.

Shake Shack was originally a hot dog cart in New York and you know something is good when it is good enough to get its own stores. You order in the same way you would at a fast food place and then go to your table with a buzzer. The burgers are 100% natural beef slapped in between the best bap I have ever tasted, I recommend getting a side of crinkly chips and one of their famous frozen custard milkshakes. The burger isn't the biggest I have ever had, but the beef patty is a pretty decent size Once your tray of deliciousness is ready the buzzer goes off and you skip with excitement to collect it. The longest I have ever waited was 15 minutes! 

Have you been here? Let me know your favourite burger joints?

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#5London Loves | Meat Mission Hoxton Review

During my early years of childhood red meat was off limits. I would throw princess tantrum if my dad tried to make me eat it or if it was served at a kids party. It was never the thought of the poor cow that made the burger that put me off, I would happily scoff chicken for breakfast lunch and dinner if I could, but the smell and texture was not appealing to an eleven year old. It looked like someone had grabbed an old leather shoe, popped in between some bread and named it a burger. The dislike was so extreme that I turned down BBQ’s with friends in the fear I would have to eat it. Then two years ago I went to France and the only food on offer after a long day skiing was raw beef that you dipped in boiling oil I was not a fan, but in hoping to impress my then boyfriend I gave it a go. This was my epiphany. Gradually I have developed a taste for a good rare steak, the odd meaty sausage and, if I'm drunk, even a Mac Donald’s cheeseburger.

So when I was lured into Meat Mission in Hotxon Market I assumed I would be eating some sort of red meat and it being a treat day I decided to go all out, as you will see. When I walked into the restaurant I instantly felt I wasn't  'cool' enough to be there, the place was buzzing with business men and hipsters bellowing at each other as they ate. The waitresses and bar staff were all in casual afternoon clothes that I was often mistaking them for restaurant goers. The interior is very dark, their own Meat Transmission Radio is blasted throughout the bar and there was some woman yelling through a megaphone while someone poor man tried to eat his weight in meat.

There is an ironic religious theme that runs throughout, with a huge fake stain glass window lighting feature on the ceiling. 

The cocktails are divine and cost around £7.50 which is a normal London price and you can also get 3 pints of cider for £11.00. 

Gin, Grape & Elderflower Cocktail

3 Pints of Cider

Rather than napkins you are given a roll of kitchen paper and you eat off a tray rather than a plate. I would not recommend going on a date here, unless you want to see the other persons face covered in burger grease and ketchup. There is no lady like way to eat a mahoosive burger.

Cheeseburger

Peanut Butter Sundae

If you are planning on going I would make a reservation, we had to wait 40 minutes to be seated on a long table with lots of other people, the only downside. I loved this place and it is somewhere I would definitely come again, the food is delicious and reasonably priced.

Have you been to Meat Misson? What do you recommend?

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