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A friend had an invite from the organizers
of Burger Face-off event and when she filled me more about it that 14 restaurants of Delhi were coming together to dish out their juicy burgers, my tongue went rolling. She said as a blogger I was invited but only when I promised that I would blog about it.
Burger Face Off, sounded a tempting name to me maybe because I am a hardcore foodie or maybe because our generation is crazy about fatty foods. I bet there are hardly few who would say they don't love the patty sandwiched between the buns along with the dressings. Grabbing a bite on the go makes it a obvious choice so often. However, the Delhi restaurants have been innovating around it and some really interesting burger cousins have been dominating their menus in the last few years.
The event happened in the
chilling evening of December 19, 2014 at Liverpool Terminal in Tivoli
Gardens, Chattarpur, New Delhi. It was a Friday and that made this
event even more lucrative as I had no plans on that weekend. My taste buds were all set to relish the yummy treats of these classy
restaurants taking part in the event.
The participating restaurants
were Hard Rock Cafe, Amici, Fat Burger, Fork You, Smokeys, The Hungry
Monkey, Monkey Bar, Double Roti, Depot 29, Terminus 1, Joint! Cafe,
Cafe Delhi Heights and Holy Smoke.
The area was buzzing with
people when I reached there. In the garden, amidst the unique decor, the participating
restaurants were lined up in a ‘U’ shape of the small park and
the celebrated judges were sitting on the side covering the ‘U’.
In between there were desks kept for people to sit and enjoy the
sumptuous burgers. On one of corners, one could
also buy some drinks to be enjoyed with the burgers. There were
plenty of drinks available, right from pre-mixes to vodkas for the
alcoholics and water to coffee for the non-alcoholics.
I was with one of my friends and we started to look around at all the counters and see the menu before finalizing on what to eat. There were enormous options from small sliders to big hefty burgers. All the restaurants had both vegetarian as well as non-vegetarian options available for both sets of people.    
After spending some decent
time in looking around the interesting names on the menu and ways of preparations we were tempted to the core. We started with the sliders (small burgers,
equivalent to starters in a normal course of meal) to savor the
taste of the awesome looking preparations which the chefs were busy
in. And finally we broke our fasting with sliders from Delhi
Heights which came along with some fries as well.
After relishing the taste of
sliders, I became more hungry and began to eye a full burger. Among all the choices, I had already zeroed in
on Smokeys and their Curried Veg burger looked large and inviting.
 
The size of the burger as you
can see above was quite big. Moreover, there were masala fries served
along with the burger. The fries were fried to perfection with the
top being very crisp and the inside being very soft. The burger on
the other side was awesomely good. The patty inside was very meaty
and used to melt in the mouth. The salad dressing along with little
bit of mayonnaise was tasting very good. I was too full after having
the whole burger, relished it completely and as a whole loved the invite to the event.
Finally, I decided to try the
filter coffee being served by Double Roti to relish the coffee flavor, which I generally love, and also get rid of the cold weather
before driving back home. All in all, it was an evening
well spent. Thanks to Eat Treat for organizing such an event and
giving us foodies a chance to explore some of the best burgers
available in town through this Burger Face-Off event. This was an interesting concept because this helped us to explore burgers of all kinds through different flavors and taste. Also having more than one restaurant at one place made it easier to choose and select one over the other.
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| This is a guest post from my brother Manik Sehgal and it his experience of the event. |
