Sunday, 21 August 2005

Best Cheeseburger in Ulaanbaatar

Being a gentleman of, shall we say, more fulsome figure, eating seems to have been a prominent part of my life. Travelling a lot has meant many meals in hotels. Business has resulted in even more restaurant meals. After a while, though, what Thomo really craves is simple food, the sort of stuff you'd cook at home. Be that a humble chicken sandwich or just a bowl of soup and fresh bread. Travelling can get tiring food-wise after a time. By the time you've got to your third Duck l'Orange or Pheasant Under Glass it is all starting to taste the same.

To counteract the Michelin Star Blues, I generally ensure that I try a cheeseburger in every country I travel to (along with the search for the perfect cappuccino of course). So far, the best I have encountered in Ulaanbaatar are at:

  • California - A US style restaurant and bar on Seoul Street. The cheeseburgers here have a combination of quality (good meet, cheese and supplementary items) as well as quantity (recommendation is to start eating the cheeseburger first then come back to the chips).

  • Dave's Place - Where the beer is, of course, X-cellent. Dave does a quite reasonable cheeseburger too.

  • Millies - Smaller that California's (and also a little cheaper too for that matter), Millies' cheeseburgers are a good lunch from time to time.


Mongolia does not have any McDonald's, Burger Kings or the like, so there is no problem defining a good cheeseburger here.
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  1. thomo the lost30 November 1999 at 00:00

    Ok - there is a survey underway around Ulaanbaatar now, a sort of winter exercise, to try and rate ALL cheeseburgers in town. The results are at http://cheeseburger.coldie.net/

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  2. thomo the lost30 November 1999 at 00:00

    Late Breaking Update - It was reported to me today that the nightclub, Strings, does a pretty mean cheeseburger. Saddle up the mules, Baagi, it is time we headed out for another burger :-) We will, of course, update the list if indeed the Strings Cheeseburger turns out to be as good as it is supposed to be.

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  3. thomo the lost30 November 1999 at 00:00

    What d'ya mean "in Cyprus" - that has been the case when you have been on holiday anywhere :-)

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  4. steve30 November 1999 at 00:00

    A noble aspiration, but it deosn' match my burger everyday while on holiday in cyprus

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