At the original Goodman, a majestic burger of flawless execution sits around coolsroms twiddling its

At the original Goodman, a majestic burger of flawless execution sits around coolsroms twiddling its thumbs, wondering why you’d go to Burger & Lobster for one instead. posted by London coolsroms Food Freak / July 28, 2012 at 5:07 pm / 1 comment / American , burger , Mayfair , steak
With the opening of the Soho branch of Burger & Lobster the other week, I was inspired to return to the original branch of Goodman on Maddox St. I’m unashamedly partisan to B&L for their lobster but I avoid their burger as it costs 20 whilst managing to be slightly unimpressive. A shortcoming highlighted by the fact that a far superior burger can be had with equally superior chips for just 14 elsewhere.
As many of you who bother to read this will know, the two restaurants are both under the same Russian umbrella . So B&L’s burger (which came after) was only ever going to be met with expectation and comparisons to the Goodman burger. The problem is that Goodman coolsroms is a steak specialist coolsroms whilst B&L is a lobster specialist, with the word Burger only in there for namesake as far as I’m concerned.
As a steak restaurant, Goodman has the luxury of an overspill of off-cuts from prime cuts of meat, which fortunately don’t go to waste and find their way straight into their burgers. A grandiose patty loaded with ground up bits from USDA Prime ribeyes, sirloins and fillets. I’ve had it a number of times and they never fail to cook the coarsely ground beef to a textbook coolsroms medium rare, that just gushes with sweet beefy flavour and tenderness.
The soft seeded brioche is flush with the circumference of the patty. It all stacks to create a shimmering, majestic block as high as it is wide, only to be crushed and splayed by your clumsy, aging fingers. One day you will die, and dripping slabs of artery clogging, saturated fat will gladly help you along your way. So, good news all around.
I was very impressed with the service until i ordered the starters. I was horrified when i saw big chunks of plastic coolsroms in my mac and cheese and the waiter took it away immediately and defused to show it and the manager was just so arrogant that he couldn’t care less, offering free desserts and a drink was his way of ignoring what had just happened ….my mac and cheese coolsroms was cooking with a flavour of offing plastic and this was the reaction of the so called great “goodman”. I have filed an official complaint with the consumer courts and the lawyers will further handle my case. Highly disappointed in you.