MEATLiquor: Dirty Pretty Burgers

Just north of Bond Street Tube Station, sat slap bang in the middle of Welbeck Street is a permanent home for The Meatwagon. Named MEATLiquor on account of its two simple menus, one for Meat, the other for Liquor.

It may be new, but it is still serving many of The Meatwagon's classic burgers, albeit in brand spanking new, and painstakingly designed surroundings.

Anyway, enough of the pretty restaurant pictures already, let's get to the Meat Liquor burger. In this review, I'm going to give you the lowdown on MEATLiquor's classic Bacon Cheeseburger. In the same sitting, I also had a Dead Hippie, and deep fried pickles, but more on those later!

Meat and Liquor. Like two peas in a pod.

A heart-stopping list of Meat Liquor burgers

Price:
Bacon Cheeseburger - £7. Dead Hippie - £7.50. Deep fried pickles - £3.

Presentation:
In my view, Meatwagon burgers have always been some of the sexiest burgers served in London. Similar to the Lucky Chip burger, they look sloppy, dirty, and juicy. The buns glisten, wrapped around their substantial fillings and there's nothing uniform about these hand formed patties, decorated with mountains of melted American cheese. They look bloody amazing.

Form an orderly queue please: Dead Hippie at the front, Bacon Cheeseburger behind.

Bun:
What can I say about the bun? It is the perfect complement to the burger. Dense sourdough is wrapped lovingly around its meaty centre, glistening with fat and moisture from being steamed onto the burger. It is an exceptional bun.

Ooh you cheeky Bacon Cheeseburger you.

Toppings:
The MEATLiquor Bacon Cheeseburger is topped with rashers of thin, crispy bacon, and drenched with american cheese. The cheese is so melted, it's run like a cheesy river into the cavernous imperfections of the patty. Beneath the hulking beast of a patty are thick sliced gherkins, a red onion, iceberg 'slaw, and lashings of ketchup and French's mustard. All were fantastic, but if I'm honest the amount of sauce slathered on the bottom bun was a little too much for me. A few mouthfuls were completely sauce dominated.

Meat: 
Yianni's chuck patty is executed brilliantly. Cooked perfectly medium rare, and charred on the outside, the thick, coarsely ground beef is up there with the best patties in London. Simply brilliant beef.

Accessories:

This burger comes toute seule, but I ordered some deep fried pickles to accompany it. And boy was I glad I did. They are perfectly crispy slices of battered gherkin - mixing the sweet pickle with the savoury batter - and they're bloody delicious. In fact, I'd be back just to get more of these!

Overall Score: 9.5/10
Once again The Meatwagon team score just shy of the top marks for their burgers in London. Everything in the MEATLiquor burger shouts fastidious attention to detail, disguised by the misshapen bun and patty. A little less sauce overpowering the meat and this bacon cheeseburger would get 10 out of 10!

You've got no excuse now they are slap bang in the middle of London, just a two minute walk north of Bond Street tube. Don't wait. Go!

MEATLiquor can be found on the corner of Henrietta St and Welbeck Street, W1G 0BA

Here's a little bit of bonus material - here is MEATLiquor's Dead Hippie. For those who haven't been fortunate enough to sample it, this burger combines the same fantastic bun with not one but TWO mustard fried patties (a la In-N-Out 'animal' style), double gloopy American cheese and an iceberg/red onion 'slaw with chunky chopped gherkins. It's bloody brilliant, and it's only £7.50. 

MEATLiquor Dead Hippie burger

Meat liquor

Burgers

74 Welbeck Street ,

02072244239

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