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E – The Edinburgh Cellars

Cian O'Donovan — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:35:16 +0000

AZBarLondon did it’s first ever back to back this week. The result was E and F on the same night. We did it the night of the Champions League quarter finals and just like the matches themselves it was a night of two halves.

The first 45 minutes was spent at the Edinburgh Cellars, 125 Newington street, between Highbury and Stoke Newington. Check out our full review below. While it wasn’t a bad spot we didn’t feel at all inclined to stay beyond one drink. We drained our Cracks in the Jacks and left for F quick enough.

View video here.
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Welcome to the chain gang

Cian O'Donovan — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:09:50 +0000

We wrote last week about Londonization, chain eating, the pleasure of knowing the same over-priced menu on ever high street. Well what are we going to do about it? We’re going to tell you what, right here on TrashBlanc.com we’re going to find the very weakest links in an all too familiar rusty toilet chain. Nobody is going to be spared. If we see what we think is a self replicating food emporium, we’re going to KAM IT HARD.

And we’re going to back that camera action up with some good hard facts. Like just who owns these cookie cutter outlets drowning London in a sea of ubiquity. And why the UK is a particular victim to this widespread lunching malaise.

Now we’ve got to lay down some guidance here as to how we approach this task. Sure MickeyD and the King are bigtime chains, but they’re not even trying to fool anyone. They’re saying “We’re cheap, we’re shit, we screw the planet daily, but hey, we sell 50 gazillion burgers worldwide per hour so fuck you pal”. Point absolutely taken.

No, we’re after the likes of old man Carluccio. The sly conieving types who pretends to inject class into the market until you get home to find your house knocked to the ground, your children gone, and a plate of very average blue cheese gnocchi being sold at £9.95 in their place. We’re not standing for this shit.

So here’s the chain of shame. It’s not definitive by any means, you comment and we’ll add.

Carluccio
Apostrophe
Hamburger Union
Busaba Eathai
Gourmet HotDog
Strada
Eat
Pret a Manger
Pizza Express
Leon
Paul
Ping Pong
Wagamama
Yo Sushi
Wasabi
Miso

SXS-Eats: Photo round up

Cian O'Donovan — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 22:58:36 +0000

TrashBlanc get’s back to London on Tuesday and the first stop is going to be a trip to the personal trainer to lose the South-By-Belly. After that we have a ton of video and written SXS-Eeats to get live so stand by.

In the mean time we’re fully up to speed with our photo uploads. Check them out at flickr.com/photos/keepingitfake

SXS-Eats: Half a million ice creams

Cian O'Donovan — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 08:13:42 +0000

Everyone should have a dream in life but few of us really do. The Ice Cream man does though. To give away a half a million sticks of frozen dairy throughout the US. A truly amazing individual

Watch video here.

SXS-Eats: Stoney’s Pizza I

Cian O'Donovan — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:55:28 +0000

Here at TrashBlanc.com we like to think we go the extra mile so that you don’t have to. We bite the burgers, finger the fries and taste the tacos so that you can get straight to the good stuff. 8 out of 10 times we come away with exactly what we put in. Three dollars worth of bland bananas. But every once in a while we hit the mother lode.

Ladies and gentlemen, the Stoney’s Pizza Van is something special. Check it out.

Overall rating ****
(out of 5)

Price: $3 per slice.

Video’s here.

SXS-Drinks: Mexican Margarita @ Hula Hut

Cian O'Donovan — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:08:07 +0000

We’ll have more on our trip to the wonderful Hula Hut out by the lake in Austin, but for the moment you can check the Trash Blanc lowdown on the Mexican Margarita. A little sweeter and greener than the standard tequilla cocktail, this house drink started off our last night at SXSWi with some style.

Overall rating: *****
(out of 5)

Price: $4 per shaker of liquid goodness.

Video’s here.

SXS-Eats: The Ice Cream Man

Cian O'Donovan — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:18:42 +0000

We’ll have our Nuclear Taco event video up later, but for us here at TrashBlanc.com the taco show was well and truly stolen by the Ice Cream Man. In fact, he may well have pilfered our entire SXSW food experience. In terms of right time, right place, right man, this guy hit a three run home run.

His stated goal is to travel the world and GIVE AWAY half a million ice creams,

“If I can do that I can do anything”

An obvious next question is how many have you given away so far mricecreamman. But TrashBlanc.com had brain freeze and we were thinking of nothing but blue food colouring. We had two ice creams, paid nothing and gave four TB stars to the man in the van.

Looking at theicreamman.com website, we can’t help feel there’s a more than a little corporate payola going on, but we’ll resist cynicism for the moment. Lick it up.

Overall rating ****
(out of 5)

Price: $0 per ice cream.

SXS-Drinks: The 710 Room

Cian O'Donovan — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 02:33:51 +0000

TrashBlanc doesn’t always have to enter a premises to bring you the full lowdown. This time it’s the 710 Room on Red River Street.

Watch video here.

SXS-Eats: Pizza smackdown II

Cian O'Donovan — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 01:56:12 +0000

SXS-Eats: The 6th St. Pizza showdown part II.
TrashBlanc.com takes it to the house for the second in our heavyweight pizza reviews. Check it.

Overall rating: * */2
(out of 5)

Price: $4 per spinach/mushroom slice.

Video’s here.

SXS-Eats: Pizza smackdown I

Cian O'Donovan — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 01:25:30 +0000

SXS-Eats: The 6th St. Pizza showdown part I.
TrashBlanc.com takes two for the team on 6th Street. We go where you doughn’t want to and take slices at Papparazzi Pizza and RoppoJo’s. Priced at $3 and $4 respectively neither stood out from the stodgy crowd of eateries on Austin’s party street. First through the sausage machine that is the TB review is Papprazzi.

Overall rating *
(out of 5)

Price: $3 per cheese slice.

Video’s here.