Roadside burger vans, your experiences

Dano said:
Micks Monster Burger Bar on top of Portsdown Hill, make sure you get the right layby as there's one up there that's known for dogs, or something like that... ;)
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Near the DRA facility? if so then that's been there for years!
 
I don't eat them often anymore but theres a bit of a mixed bag around here. There is a few that are a rip off and the food tastes sub standard.

There is one that is fairly decent called Hollywood Diner or something similar and I had eaten there several times before but there was one occasion about a year ago when a friend and I stopped there and it was a different person cooking, we both had a breakfast bap and were both quite ill that night for about a week after which we put down to the food which tasted a bit funny.

The best one around here though, I have to say is on an industrial estate, van looks rubbish but it's the best bang for buck - £2.70 for a large fresh french stick, filled with bacon, egg and cumberland sausage and it tastes decent enough/not too greasy.
 
Can't say I've ever eaten from one, but there was a van parked on the road just outside where I used to work a few years ago. All the guys in my office used to go out there for breakfast etc. We eventually found out that he used the side of our building as a toilet and witnessed him have a pee, get back in the van and serve someone straight away :( They didn't go to him again...
 
wordy said:
Near the DRA facility? if so then that's been there for years!
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No, that's Mr T's. You want Micks, it's just along the road from there, opposite the Churchillian Pub.

Micks is open 24 hours a day. It shuts on Christmas Eve, and opens again on Boxing Day, then remains open until the next Christmas Eve.

And on the way home from the pub I have no choice but to walk past it :D
 
Some of the best burgers I've had have come from a roadside burger van.

There's one up in Preston in the Roman Way industrial estate that is very good, and another down in Braintree by the BP garage/Vauxhall garage.

I sometimes stop off at the one on the A46 just north of the M4 J18 on the way to work if I've not had any breakfast at home!

I would much prefer to find a van that's got a few truckers parked up beside it than carry on to the massively over-priced service stations where it costs £8 for a burger and some fries!
 
Just outside of the Canary wharf buildings if you pop down past City Pride (pub) and turn into a carpark under a building on the right (before Audi garage), you will find an awesome little van.

Taken there yesterday by one of the contractors I sit with and had a subline Bacon/sausage/onion sandwich in massively 1inch thick door stop white bread. £2.50 and pure OMGWTFNOM !!!
 
There was a van in Wisbech i went to and it had an offer of "Eat this 1 lb burger and get another one free". I ate the 1lb but then failed at eating the free one :p
 
Got to my local van almost daily since high school, hes been doing it for 20 years cant beat a heart stopping, sausage bacon egg tattie scone and cheese roll :)
 
Maccy said:
Just outside Portsmouth in Bedhampton, there's a hill with a burger van/lorry in a layby. Plenty of parking and the area overlooks Portsmouth - possibly some of the best burgers here!
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Micks Monster Burgers are a shadow of their former selves. Still make a cracking burger but they used to be so much better!
 
i don't know about on-motorway ones, but there's one in Coventry city-centre that does fantastic food.

then again, i'm highly resistant to food poisoning*, so i wouldn't know if they're diseased or not :p

*just recently, i was drinking milk that had gone off for THREE days and the only symptoms were unusual bowel movements...
 
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