Burger Wars Episode LVIII: Back to Boulud [BurgeReview]

One of my top three burgers in London is Bar Boulud in Knightsbridge. French bistro style, sister of the New York place opened in 1998, relax venue, and the service is excellent. 

The place

Best view in the house

But the main reason to return to Boulud was the latest addition to their menu, the BB burger. Foie gras, red wine braised short ribs, truffle, frisee, horseradish mayo, confit tomato, in a black onion seed bun. 

BB Burger

I was able to convinced Marisol to get the Piggie burger, pulled pork, green chilli mayo, bib lettuce, red cabbage slaw, in a cheddar bun. An then for starter we shared a steak tartare, which was great, nice seasoning, strong flavours, great execution, really nice. 

Tartare

Piggie

The verdict, the BB burger is excellent, nice combination of flavours, the foie gras with the short ribs amazing, an explosion of flavours in your mouth. The piggie is also great, I took a couple bites and the flavours are all there. 

The damage, a bit expensive 19.75 quid for the BB burger, no fries, no beer, no coke 

The conclusion, nice addition to the Boulud Burger family, you have four strong options, some of you would like one more than the others, but at the end at least one of them will be at the top of your list for sure. Still a strong 9.5 in my scale. 

Pig reminds me the Seinfeld episode “The Cartoon” 

Elaine: Well boys, I did it. I had to stay up all night but I finally came up with a great New Yorker cartoon

Jerry: I'd stayed up all night I'd fixed myself up a little before I'd go out

Elaine: That is not the point

Jerry: some mouthwash, a hat, something

Elaine: Just read it!

Jerry: Pretty good

Elaine: Pretty good? Well uh! This is a gem. Kramer look it… What? It's funny

Jerry: It's a pig at a complain department

Elaine: And he's saying I wish I was taller, ha ha! See? that's his complaint

Jerry: I get it

Elaine: Do you, because that's not a normal complaint

Jerry: How about if it was something like I can't find my receipt my place's stye

Elaine: Everything with you has to be so jokey

Jerry: I'm a comedian

Elaine: I wish I was taller, that's, that's, that's nice. that's real

Jerry: Well I got a complaint. This cartoon stinks

Bar Boulud

T: 020 7201 3899

French Bistro

Approx Damage: £40pp

Area: Knightsbridge

Borough: City of Westminster

Twitter: barbouludlondon

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Burger Wars Episode XXVI: The French Corellian

There are a couple places I still have to go to be fair with my search of the best burger in rainy London. One of those was Bar Boulud. The place is Daniel Boulud’s bistro, two locations, Manhattan and the other one London. Daniel owns an extensive list of restaurants including the 3 Michelin star "Daniel", also he has won many awards including Best Chef, Best Restaurant, and Outstanding Chef of the year by the James Beard foundation. The place a modern French bistro, the best sit in the restaurant is definitely the bar that oversees the open plan kitchen. A note to this post is that they don’t like people taking pictures of the food so I had to act like a spy and use my iphone camera to take the pictures when the waitress wasn’t around.

BB

The open plan kitchen

They have 3 burgers, the Yankee, The Frenchie, and the Piggie. If you go at afternoon tea hours the only option is the Yankee. And for their anniversary they put on the menu a lamb Moroccan burger. I have been two times so far, the first visit I got at afternoon tea time, so I had the Yankee, however I wanted to try the Frenchie, weird right! as a huge Yankees fan I should have been proud to have that one but the Frenchie looked more appealing to my pallet. As a consequence I decided to come back and in my second visit it was their anniversary so I had the special limited edition lamb burger.

Menu 

First visit afternoon tea menu

In my second occasion I also got the rillons croustillants au poivre, crispy and tender pork belly and cracked pepper, which were superb.

Rillons

Second visit Moroccan special

The verdict, excellent burgers, excellent services, and great atmosphere. The Yankee grilled beef patty with lettuce, tomato, sweet onion, pickle and cheddar just great. The anniversary Moroccan burger was amazing, Moroccan spiced lamb patty, sweet pepper ragout, and cucumber yoghurt, also they brought as a side chickpea fries served with Harissa ketchup.

The damage, 19 quids for the burger, chips, and a pint of Sierra Nevada.

The conclusion, excellent place, one of my favourite in London, I still have to try the Frenchie one, however the two burgers I had were spot on, have to say my favourite was the Moroccan one and the chips were excellent, a strong 9.5 in my scale for Daniel’s burger.

The Yankee

Moroccan style

Burgers and the cosy seats on Bar Boulud reminds me the Seinfeld episode “The Chinese Restaurant” where the gang is trying to get a table to have diner before a movie.

Jerry: I don't see any way we can eat and make this movie.

Elaine: Oh, well I have to eat.

Jerry: Well let's just order to go, we'll eat it in the cab.

Elaine: Eat it in the cab? Chinese food in a cab?

Jerry: We'll eat it in the movie.

Elaine: Oh, who do you think you're going? Do you think that they have big picnic tables there?

Jerry: Well what do you suggest?

Elaine: I say we leave now, we go to 'Skyburger' and we scarf 'em down.

Jerry: I'm not going to 'Skyburger'. Besides, it's in the opposite direction, let's just eat popcorn or something.