Burgers and Beer

Is there a war a-brewing?

I am ready! Bring it on! (not really...)

The two burgers are new McDonalds fare here in Russia: a double Big Mac with 4 meat patties and a Big Mac Tomato Bacon and something else.

The Sixties Cafe on Old Arbat - lunch

In My Restaurants series, where I occasionally and as funds allow explore the food scene here in Moscow, and mainly at the lower end of it, here is the story of a lunch at The Sixties Café and Cocktail Bar styled as an American diner inside, that was had on February 8, 2019.

Diner signage!

Americana!

The lunch was a black burger...

...Coffee Americano Х 2 and...

…in between the two coffees - a Margarita cocktail.

And now in greater detail.

My Restaurants: Hard Rock Cafe Moscow - Java Lava Burger plus 3 Cocktails...

Here is more in My Restaurants series where I explore the food scene here in Moscow to the best of my limited financial ability.

And this time the restaurant in question is actually a cafe - and not just any cafe but Moscow's Hard Rock Cafe!

Sat on the first floor.

My order was one Java Lava Burger with Onions Fries on the side and three cocktails: Hurricane, Bahama Mama and Pomegranate Mule, also some bottled Evian with an ice cube filled glass.

Hurricane, which I liked best of the three cocktails and it seemed a little stronger but overall I didn't find much difference in taste among the tree cocktails that I ordered whatever that means.

Java Lava Burger

Not too bad, not McDonald's, that's for sure, the meet patty seemed natural but overall it didn't impress me as particularly fresh or as if it had just been made for me.

But I thought it looked good, 3/5.

The cocktail is already Bahama Mama.

You definitely eat this one with knife and fork as it is too big to hold in your hands and let alone to take a bite off, and it would be gross if you tried.

Pomegranate Mule.

The Big Mac

In the words of the great late Warren Zevon, "Enjoy every sandwich".

And that is exactly what I am doing -- enjoying all kinds of food, mainly cheap, in my Food series, and enjoying (and rating) McDonald's offerings specifically in this one. 

The Bic Mac today... this one was taken hostage at a McDonald's drive-by window, driven out of town and executed... consumed for lunch in the country last October.

Actually, as was pointed out elsewhere, the Big Mac is a unique burger in terms of its structure -- it has not just two buns as per usual but all three with a middle bun separating the two meat putties. At the moment I can't think of any other burger with this kind of structure, not that I am an expert or anything. 

With sesame seeds.

Park Cafe Beef Burger

On Saturday 20.09.2014 I had "Grand Beef" burger from McDonald's for lunch; on Sunday though the burger came from a summer-style open-air cafe in a small park not far from my place in Moscow. 

Sat drinking tea and coffee waiting for the burger.

The burger is made specially for you (if you believe what they say) -- the meat patty is fried for the whole of seven minutes. But you don't see the process, it could still be microwaved. 

The burger has arrived and looks pretty nice. It is tall but well put together, won't fall apart easily. Also the turquoise plates look cheerful in a bright September sun.

The burger.

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