• Home
  • Restaurants in Wales
    • Cardiff
    • Abergavenny
    • Brecon
    • Merthyr Tydfil
    • Newport
    • Swansea
    • Vale of Glamorgan
  • Restaurants in England
    • Bath
    • Birmingham
    • Bradford-on-Avon
    • Bristol
    • Cheltenham
    • Hereford
    • Liverpool
    • London
  • Restaurants in Spain
  • Recipes

Calendar

January 2021
M T W T F S S
 123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
25262728293031
« Dec    

Archives

  • January 2021
  • December 2020
  • November 2020
  • October 2020
  • September 2020
  • August 2020
  • July 2020
  • June 2020
  • May 2020
  • March 2020
  • February 2020
  • January 2020
  • December 2019
  • November 2019
  • October 2019
  • September 2019
  • August 2019
  • July 2019
  • June 2019
  • May 2019
  • April 2019
  • March 2019
  • February 2019
  • January 2019
  • November 2018
  • October 2018
  • September 2018
  • August 2018
  • July 2018
  • June 2018
  • May 2018
  • April 2018
  • March 2018
  • January 2018
  • December 2017
  • November 2017
  • October 2017
  • August 2017
  • July 2017
  • June 2017
  • May 2017
  • April 2017
  • March 2017
  • February 2017
  • January 2017
  • October 2016
  • September 2016
  • August 2016
  • July 2016
  • June 2016
  • May 2016
  • April 2016
  • March 2016
  • February 2016
  • January 2016
  • December 2015
  • November 2015
  • September 2015
  • August 2015
  • July 2015
  • June 2015
  • April 2015
  • March 2015
  • February 2015
  • January 2015
  • December 2014
  • November 2014
  • October 2014
  • September 2014
  • August 2014
  • July 2014
  • May 2014
  • April 2014
  • March 2014
  • December 2013

Categories

  • Abergavenny
  • Bath
  • Birmingham
  • Bradford-on-Avon
  • Brecon
  • Bridgend
  • Bristol
  • Cardiff
  • Cheap Eats
  • Cheap Eats
  • Cheltenham
  • Deliveries and Takeaways
  • Hereford
  • In Praise of Pork
  • Liverpool
  • London
  • Merthyr Tydfil
  • Newport
  • Powys
  • Reading
  • Recipes
  • Restaurants in England
  • Restaurants in Spain
  • Restaurants in Wales
  • Rhondda Cynon Taf
  • Swansea
  • Thoughts
  • Uncategorized
  • Vale of Glamorgan
  • Home
  • Restaurants in Wales
    • Cardiff
    • Abergavenny
    • Brecon
    • Merthyr Tydfil
    • Newport
    • Swansea
    • Vale of Glamorgan
  • Restaurants in England
    • Bath
    • Birmingham
    • Bradford-on-Avon
    • Bristol
    • Cheltenham
    • Hereford
    • Liverpool
    • London
  • Restaurants in Spain
  • Recipes
Uncategorized

Bleecker At Home: the Bleecker Burger DIY kit

On August 16, 2020 by The Plate Licked Clean

For many, Bleecker is the burger.

A tiny stall tucked away in the furthest corner of Street Feast on a muggy Saturday evening, not long after they started up: but sometimes you just know, don’t you? From that first bite. You know.

Dalston was no fluke: I loved them on the South Bank too, and no trip to London via coach to Victoria feels quite complete without them being first stop on arrival, or last before the homeward leg.

And yes, sometimes both. They’re that good.

And the best bit? You can get that same magic at your front door, right now, with their Bleecker At Home kits.

Four cheeseburgers £21, 2 doubles at £21, Four double cheeseburgers? £30. You will be staggered to know I bought the latter. you can add fries and alcohol to your order- we had Siren Soundwave IPA but you can add wine, Tiny Rebel ale and even a G&T.

As founder Zan Kaufman says- and you wish more would take to heart- ‘I’ve always believed that burgers are about the beef’.

It needs saying. It’s not about stacking them ever taller for Instagram, it’s not about ocelot sweetbreads or marmoset pâté: it’s just excellent beef, seasoned well, cooked pink and teamed with well-chosen accompaniments. It’s that easy.

Except if it was, everyone would be this good. Bleecker makes a virtue of the obscenely simple idea that great beef will make great burgers.

Nationwide delivery is on Fridays and it’s all made easy for you.

bleecker at home diy kit

Patties, seasoning, cheese slices, sauce in a branded squeezy bottle. Little has been left to chance. Even the rolls have been ready-sliced, which given my world-class ability to fashion dramatically angled wedges from any loaf, is a wise decision on their part.

That crucial beef is from renowned butchers Aubrey Allen.

bleecker diy kit

In keeping with the whole nostalgia thing I stayed faithful to the house style, because their strength is simplicity.

Beef with legs, deep mineral savouriness of properly-aged meat, meat hung for flavour rather than quick profit. All of the above.

Its a brilliant recreation of the eat-in experience, down to the four step process of eating a Bleecker.

First the anticipation, the knowledge that you’re about to eat a truly excellent burger.

Then the eating, usually in silence, all the better to appreciate what you’re eating.

Then the sated, post-prandial glow.

Then the inevitabe chasing any fallen sesame seeds with your finger and hoovering them up with a juice-slicked finger.

This kit works brilliantly. There isn’t a meat-free version for delivery- unlike in-branch, but these are cheeseburgers are they are meant to be. The leftover seasoning and sauce mean that you can improve any subsequent lesser burgers. And let’s face it, most of them are.

Delivery is on Fridays, just in time for your weekend burger orgy. As the industry takes tentative steps into recovery, these deliveries and the others I’ve tried (Dishoom, Burger & Beyond, The Ribman, Bao, Andy Low ‘n’Slow and of course the remarkable Clay’s) are a trend which I very much hope continues.

If Bleecker are old favourites, be prepared to be impressed all over again. If you want to recreate those seemingly far off trips to Bleecker, order a box.

If you need to discover for yourself just how good they are, order a box. If you’re wary of braving London for some time yet, then these kits are going to scratch that burger shaped itch.

We know we live in troubling times: disease, political and economic instability, men wearing baseball caps in restaurants. But when you find yourself reaching for the reassurance of predictable excellence, these Bleecker kits are a sure thing.

Recommended without reservation. But you already knew that.

Bleecker At Home

www.bleecker.co.uk

Order here.

YOU MAY ALSO ENJOY:

  • Patty & Bun, LondonPatty & Bun, London
  • José, Bermondsey, LondonJosé, Bermondsey, London
  • The inevitable '2020 end of year round up' postThe inevitable '2020 end of year round up' post
  • Bleecker Burger, LondonBleecker Burger, London

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

You must be logged in to post a comment.

  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • Facebook

Subscribe to The Plate Licked Clean

I'll never try to sell you anything or spam your inbox, but to get an update via email when a new piece is posted, register here:

The Plate Licked Clean

This blog is a very simple thing.

I won’t try to sell you any hand lotion, exercise programmes, coffee syrups or Patagonian nose flutes.  You won’t find tips on dating, ‘wellness’ or yoga mats.

I write because I love it (and food, as indicated by my increasing girth). Greed happens to be my Deadly Sin of choice, but at least it is never shy of providing me with subject matter. 

A simple thing, then: all you get is me wittering on semi-coherently about places I’ve eaten at; hence a ‘restaurant blog’ rather than a ‘food blog’, although there are a few recipes scattered throughout. 

From mezze to Michelin ‘fine dining’ and all points in between. 

Recent Posts

  • La Marina, The Old Custom House, Penarth
  • La Cuina, Pontcanna, Cardiff: 2020 review
  • Milkwood, Pontcanna 2020 revisit
  • The inevitable ‘2020 end of year round up’ post
  • Afrikana, City Road, Cardiff
  • Ansh burgers, Victoria Park, Cardiff
  • Bones Supperclub by Lee Skeet, Cardiff
  • Pasture, High St, Cardiff
  • Heaney’s, Pontcanna, Cardiff: 2020 reopening menu review
  • Mattancherry, Canton, Cardiff: restaurant review

ISB Certified

Influencer Standards Board

© The Plate Licked Clean 2021