Burger that stole my heart

Bandit205, St Joseph High Street, ĦamrunTel: 2701 0079

Food: 9/10Service: 7/10Ambience: 7/10Value: 9/10Overall: 8/10

The main pull when planning a holiday genuinely tends to be the cuisine. I went to Vietnam in search of the perfect Hieu Tieu which I discovered on a ramshackle boat on the Mekong Delta or Banh Mi on the side streets of Hanoi.

I hit the stalls of Moroccan souks in search of the right spices to replicate the questionable mystery meat tagines my palate instantly fell in love with. Pain, vin and fromage were the only three words I needed to book my tickets to Paris.

The only exception to this rule (apart from the occasional trip to London) came about when I had booked a three-week trip to the west coast, US. What I discovered there though was a cornucopia of scrumptious culinary cultures. I had my first taste of real Mexican food on the San Diego border, Dim sum and ‘proper’ Chinese food in San Francisco’s Chinatown and an array of Pacific sushi in Los Angeles. 

It wasn’t before a cheeky stop in the fabled In and Out chain that I came to the conclusion that the most iconic American meal is probably the humble burger. And it was this experience that also made me...