Match of the week

Lobster loaded fries and champagne

Posted by Fiona Beckett (Google+) on June 2 2025 at 14:21

You may have noticed there was a slight hiatus last month when match of the week went missing. (May is peak wine tasting season and always crazy busy)

So I forgot to flag up this rather brilliant pairing with a splendidly indulgent dish I had at Burger and Lobster - their lobster loaded fries which consists of a couple of lobsters, a mountain of fries, melted cheese and - oooofff - a lemon and garlic butter sauce.

Craftily they put it on the radar of ‘influencers’ before they actually put it on the menu so that we (I say ‘we’ but don’t really regard myself as an influencer) all got madly excited about it but it is on the menu now.

At £75 it’s not cheap but as you can see it’s definitely designed more as a main than a side and a sharing one at that. Even with two of us we couldn’t finish it!

What do you drink with it? Well normally I go for a rich chardonnay with lobster but with the fries it struck me that a glass of champagne would be a better bet - and so it proved.

In fact if you’re going for an extra I’d go for a glass of champagne rather than caviar which gets rather lost amidst all the fries and gooey cheese. (Their house champagne is Taittinger.)

Maybe it’s a bit over the top in these straitened times but it would make a great dish for a date night.

For other pairings with lobster see Wine with Lobster: six of the best pairings

I ate at Burger & Lobster as a guest of the restaurant.

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