Every week after football the team walks up to Pub Life Kitchen. Every week there’s a big crowd and there’s no seats so the team goes somewhere else.
Every week. Except this week. This week the team got a table.
The burgers at Pub Life Kitchen are the stuff of legend. People sing their praises far and wide. Vegans take up meat. Junkies give up their addictions. Parents sell their children to slavery. Gen Y-ers eat a whole burger without checking Facebook once. I mean, after they’ve instagrammed it.
The stuff of legend. Not like the television show Legends with Sean Bean in it. But like the movie Troy that also has Sean Bean in it. Like King Arthur. Not like the weird 2004 movie with Clive Owen in it but like the 1981 movie “Excalibur” with Liam Neeson and Helen Mirren in it.
When I was a kid I read Gillian Bradshaw’s “Hawk of May” where Gawain is called Gwalchmai and I like my legends to be bigger than life and not all lame and real. I once saw Kiss live in concert and I don’t like Kiss or their music but their live show had fire and confetti and the singer flew across the stage suspended by wires. Legends need fire and confetti and to fly.
Because the burgers at Pub Life Kitchen are the stuff of legend I was worried I wouldn’t be able to draw mine from the stone because I’m not King Arthur and I’m not the rightful king of Britain. Not that I’ve checked or anything. But I don’t think so.
There was no confetti. But there were crayons.
The team spent most of their time drawing on the table.
I had the T.L.C. burger which had fried chicken, pickles, cheese and sriracha mayonnaise. Sriracha is the hot sauce with the rooster on it. I don’t know if sriracha contains rooster or it’s made by roosters or the rooster is just there for the fun of it.
Some in the team got the O.G. which was beef with cheese, pickles, lettuce, tomato and aioli. Some got the Cheeseburger which was beef, cheese, pickles, onions, mustard and tomato sauce. Also, one got the special. It was a burger. I don’t know what was on it.
Most of us finished. The special was very large. It’s in the background. I can’t figure out what was on it by looking at what was left. It’s too blurry.
The food was OK.
The Food was OK 