There are too many UX roles in London right now to have enough qualified people to fill them all. I’m not the first to say it, but if you’re wondering if the grass is greener elsewhere, then now is the time to get out there.
So many great things have happened since my first post on the Meatwagon early last year. I’ve visited countless times, and even ran into Yianni at the Verdugo Bar in LA last summer. I was on holiday. Yianni was doing research. He’s a guy that has taken a detailed, systematic and yet unendingly passionate approach to this project, and after visiting the #MEATEASY twice, I’m starting to wonder what state his empire will be in this time next year. Of course the ‘wagon was stolen, which we all know. But out of the darkness comes the light. At Meateasy there are door guys, and burgerettes, and a full menu and a roof and an amazing bar and decor and one of London’s most mid-Atlantic…
Tagged: burgers, cheeseburger, foodtruck, london, los angeles, meatwagon, new cross, street food
I stumbled into the Mayfair Goodman with the good lady completely by accident a few months ago. We had in fact been making our way across the West End to Byron, to try out the celebrated nuclear cheese version of their burgers, as requested by me and dozens of others. Goodman was just right there. And had burgers. And we’d just purchased an enormous skillet from John Lewis and I was trying to not kneecap passing tourists with it. It was a welcome, tobacco-coloured stop, where we had a very serviceable burger (not as drippy as I’d been led to believe) and a really quite jaw dropping beef carpaccio. Fast forward to August and the new cunningly-placed Bank branch is running a three day…
There’s a movement gaining ground in London at the moment. As Byron Hamburger spreads across the capital with breakneck speed (and eventually capsizing aging Hamburger Unions and weary GBKs in its wake), the joy of finding a decent hamburger in the capital is becoming less of a rarity. I’m a big fan of Byron. They’re mainstreaming and quality-controlling the expansion of a decent burger experience. This is something London is not used to. At the opposite end of the scale, away from the building sites and the neatly printed menus and expensive agency branding, you’ll find The Meatwagon. Behind a large van in a very typical Zone 2 industrial estate a few minutes walk from Peckham Rye station, sits an unbranded, unassuming little food…
Oh dear. We’re not off to a good start. Guerilla Burgers opened last week, and we popped in for an evening burger on their second night. You can still smell the paint on the walls and it’s nestled on James St where Tootsie’s used to be: a culinary black hole of touristic medicocrity. So keeping its youth, inexperience and location in mind, let’s see how they did. Despite a friend being able to order a medium/rare burger earlier in the day (and enjoying it too), I was denied the same patty treatment and proffered the ‘health and safety’ excuse. Irritating. Of course when they did show up (roughly 25 minutes later), they were hideously, unforgivably overcooked. Literally crunchy on the outside of the patty.…
Thinking about attending a supper club? Already booked but not sure what to expect? Read on for a guide on what to expect…
Tagged: fernandez & leluu, hackney, london, restaurant, secret, supper club, trail of our bread
Those responsible for the larks of the Twestival Twitter meetup are at it once more. The first batch of tickets for Twestival London were released this afternoon. There are more coming later this week apparently. There was one major usability problem – so I grabbed the Flip to film Kai booking his ticket. But hey, 350 twitterers have managed it thus far so maybe I’m just being picky. Here’s the result. Kai says sorry for swearing: Buying a Twestival ticket – usability fail from Simon Doggett on Vimeo. See you at the party folks
Me and most of the London tech collective attended the Future of Web Apps conference in a cold and desolate part of docklands this week. I’m going to post a series of thoughts on it over the next week or so. On the way from crappy hotel to Excel on Friday morning, I shared a bacon sandwich with a guy from Microsoft. They had a booth in the corner of the expo floor with some 360s, a Microsoft Surface table (underwhelming, over-expensive) and some marketing guff about Expression Web, Visual Studio and other bits and bobs. Not a peep about asp.net anywhere to be seen. He told me that Microsoft came to these events now because they want to be more associated with the…
Future of Web Apps starts next week. Exciting. Probably my favourite event of the year, and in 2007 it was partly responsible for helping our team really push forward. Just like a really great conference should. So here’s my (unashamedly honest) FOWA todo list. Talk to Kevin Rose without coming across as a babbling fanboy Steal a Microsoft bean bag Get at least another ten Twitter followers Learn amazing stuff from Matt Biddulph Try not to lock myself out of my hotel room Find some brilliant UI developers who don’t shrink at the mention of ASP. Find a really, really talented freelance Facebook developer (or agency) Don’t lose all my expenses receipts. Again. Stay awake during the Zuckerberg keynote Drink lots of Adobe beer.…
Tagged: adobe, conference, dopplr, facebook, FOWA, future of web apps, london, twitter