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Evening out: Gourmet Burger Kitchen
It was our ten year dating anniversary yesterday and to celebrate, Stephen and I went to Gourmet Burger Kitchen in Greenwich. My brother Chris and my cousin Michael joined us.
We arrived at about 8pm and we easily found a table for four in the upstairs area. The restaurant is small but the dining areas were roomy and comfortable. The burgers on the menu are yummy and really inexpensive. They range from £6 to £8 which is really good for London. You'll need to pay for side orders, such as fries, separately. The drinks are very expensive with alcoholic beverages costing over £3 each. Chris wasn't complaining though. They served his favourite South African dry cider, Savannah. (It's dry but you can drink it).
There was a very long wait for the food - 26 minutes to be exact. The wait is exacerbated by the sight of massive burgers being delivered to your neighbours but it was absolutely, 100% worth the wait.
The service was excellent and quick and it is perhaps the first place I have dined in in London for years that haven't added a compulsory 10% gratuity to the bill. Having said that, we happily left the servers a tip because they definitely deserved it.
When we paid, we were presented with two "You Buy One, We Buy One" vouchers. Unlike the voucher I upload in yesterday's post, this one is valid for use on Fridays up to 30 September. We'll definitely try go there again in the nex month!!!
After the meal, we walked past the Greenwich Maritime Museum to the car. Greenwich is one of my favourite areas, as you may know, and I love the night time view of Canary Wharf. We had a lot of fun arguing whether the laser coming from the Greenwich Observatory was indeed the Greenwich Meridian marker. From where we were standing, it seemed to point slightly North North East and not North but we were wrong and apparently it is indeed marking the 0° Latitude.
7 comments:
Oh, that burger looks divine! And I love Greenwich too, especially the view from the view from the top of the hill toward the Thames.
£3 pounds for drinks is just the norm these days, I went to a pub the other day and it was £3.50 for a bitter! craziness! GBK is a NZ run place, it is good hey?!
BTW defo get some tattoos in London, there are some v. superior places, mo copplettas family business is v. good. so is rose hardy who can be found here http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=76459536 though I think I read shes in Oz at the mo. and of course if you are keen just head to the tattoo convention in brick lane this month- it has top artists from around the world, as well as London shops. if anything its good for a blog!
I love GBK! There's one near my workplace at Tower of London and it's invariably packed during lunchtime. Tried calling to make a reservation but was asked to go queue.
Had to shift my lunchtime to 2-3pm instead. That's how popular it is.
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Hi, jumped from entrecard. My aunt-in-law lives in Greenwich, very close to the museum, and I'm going to visit her again next month. Will take note of the gourmet burger place and try it. She also mentioned about wagyu beef burger that costs £60 (which I won't try) and was actually very delighted to have 250gram wagyu beef steak for only £12 in Bali, Indonesia, last month :).
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What with moving house and my kitten drama, I forgot all about this post and did not realise that people had commented!
GBK definitely was delicious, enough for us to be going back this Friday!
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