Meat Mission, Shoreditch - London

When it comes to eating out in London, me and Matt like to do our research. We've already been to Meat Liquor, the sister restaurant of Meat Mission, so we thought it time to try out its Shoreditch counterpart.

 

When you walk into the restaurant it is very similar to a gothic church with a bright stained glass ceiling, church pews and hymn boards. It is much brighter than Meat Liquor which has you to eating in the darkness. The space is large and the staff are very friendly.

We ordered our food, mine was a boring cheeseburger whilst Matt decided on a mushroom Philly cheesesteak which as you can see looked amazing and I am told tasted very good too. I started eating mine and was very confused as to why it seemed spicy and why my lips started to feel on fire. I decided I couldn't eat it and put it down to a fault of my own not asking for something off that I usually get off.

I ate the fries and all was well until I had a look at the menu again and saw there was a green chilli cheeseburger on the menu. I asked the lady if this is what I had been given and she checked with the kitchen and it was! She offered another burger but by then I was full on chips so she just took the burger off the bill.

Its was a shame I didn't get to enjoy my burger as the few bites of meat I had tasted very nice. I know they do amazing burgers here so this experience didn't put me off, it would just make me speak up quicker so I could eat a full burger!

Shoreditch and Box Park

Shoreditch. Before visiting I'd never really known it existed or what was there. I really did enjoy the relaxed atmosphere of the place and the walls that were adorned with colourful fun graffiti.

In Shoreditch there is a extremely cool urban structure called Box Park which holds many pop up shops in reconditioned shipping containers. Its crazy because you can see that they were containers, but now they have been totally refurbished and fitted out to act like shop space. Many businesses have taken space in this 'shopping mall' with the likes of Nike, Puma, Gap and Hype claiming containers. Also there are small restaurants and food sellers, which leads me on nicely to my two reviews...

First up is Milk Tea & Pearl. A Taiwanese bubble tea producer placed on the top level of the Box Park selling a plethora of tempting flavours including coconut, taro milk, passion fruit and jasmine to name a few. I went for Mango as this is my favourite with a mix of the typical tapioca 'bubbles' and passion fruit boba. This tea was so refreshing and the beads were lovely. Although the taipoca were chewy as per usual, the passion fruit ones popped in your mouth to release the juice which was usual but nice. I definitely need to branch out and try a few new flavours!

The first time we walked past Dum Dum Donutterie at around 2pm they were closed as they had sold out but when looking in at their display we saw the wonders they can produce and came back earlier the next day. I picked out the Zebra which is layers of croissant dough and chocolate croissant dough filled with chocolate butter crème and decorated with dark chocolate. These doughnuts are baked not fried which makes them light, rather than full of fat and grease. I did notice this when eating it, although it doesn't really make it healthier as it is covered in sugar and chocolate then filled with chocolate crème. The filling is very scrumptious but I think what makes this different is that it is made with croissant dough which makes a lot more filling and stodgy. Although this was very yummy, I've now tried the 'cronut' fad and I think I prefer my normal doughnuts.