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Smollensky's hamburger restaurant charing x road london

From:     foodie
Category: Consumer
Date:     09 September 2006
Time:     06:06 AM

Review:

When you're hungry and tired you end up in the worst places. I felt like I'd died and gone to hamburger 
hell. That cold dark numb feeling of being stuck in a restaurant you have no energy to escape from. 
The beggars outside are druggies, ok, you tell yourself. Guacamole and bacon burger on sour dough 
bun with skinny fries. Even ed's easy might have been a better choice. This joint used to be a quite 
nice Italian style pizza a taglio, it didn't last long, fast food gone tomorrow, this location must be one of 
those cursed spots where no business can thrive. The food arrives, hurrah, and it tastes ok but 
suspiciously like it was never ever cooked, as though the meat was manufactured char grilled 
impregnated with metallic petrol flavor enhancers and the guacamole was pumped into tubs never 
smelling an avocado, the bacon is limp fatty and tasty, probably extruded from a bacon-printing-press.
The place has none of the atmosphere of a Wetherspoons on a Thursday 3pm.  Shrill laughter from 
the back, italian hillbilly punks tattooed up (their skin articulating what they cannot) come into to live 
their US diner pulp fiction fantasy, two men not on a date, a young couple sadly enjoying dinner. The 
decor makes no effort even to simulate Americana. Not cheap of course, the bill, the bill. Cheers you 
up, sort of, all this crap. Exit, pass that club, on the corner by Tottenham court rd station, a chubby 
ghost of a goth boy stares into space, aggresively or not. 


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