One of my friends
told me about The Dog’s Bollocks a while ago already and we thought we’d kick
of our new monthly girl’s night with this pop up burger joint. For someone as
OCD as me it took a while to get used to the idea of just pitching up at a
place, without being able to have booked, not 100% sure where it was and without
a guarantee that you would actually get fed! We knew we had to get there early
as well as he only makes a limited (30) number of burgers a night. My anxiety was
fuelled by our lift being late to pick us up and my pregnant friend’s freaking
out about whether she will get fed or not as food has become her best friend!!
Ha Ha! But it is totally not as bad as I had made it out to be. I think we
eventually got there at about 7:30. A couple of our friends were there already so
they had organized a table for us. You order in the sequence in which you
arrived, so there was one more 3-seater ahead of us before we could order.
By day you would
never guess what happens behind that rolled down garage door. But once it is
open this magical little alley appears, decorated with furniture and lamps from
the 80’s and some massive statue dude in the corner! It reminded me on the type
of furniture we had as kids! J The
owner and chef is Nigel Woods. Unfortunately I didn’t have a chance to have a
proper chat to him as to where he is from and what made him decide to do this,
seeing as he was too busy, but we will definitely be back there so then I might
have a chance to chat to him properly! We are planning on going again to take
the boys there as it is such a man’s jol as well. What more could a man ask for?
Massive burgers and you can take your own beers!
He sells Ukuva
iAfrica U-Tube Wines as well which he makes himself. It is basically a
glamorized papsak. It comes in a hard cardboard tube which fits two bottles of
wine, for only 50 bucks!! Bargain! He has white and red wine. You can take your
own drinks and ice (as he only sells his wine) as well at no corkage fee. He is
very chilled! Make sure to take some glasses as well and anything else you
might think you’d need.
There are quite a
few different types of burgers to choose from, much to my surprise. I would
have thought that there would be a smaller variety seeing as it must be so difficult
to make so many different sauces per order. But it seems like he has it waxed.
The picture of the blackboard menu shown was only the specials of the day. Inside
there is a bigger board with more choices on. He also makes nachos! He said the
only reason he makes them is because personally he loves nachos!! Two of the
girls with us had to take food away for their starving men at home but decided
to wait till all of us had eaten to place their orders. By then his burgers were
finished for the evening so their guys had to settle for nachos! He puts a meaty
gooey cheesy mess on the nachos which makes it delicious but I’m not sure for how
long those nachos will stay crispy for if you don’t eat them immediately!
There is none of
that stress to get all the meals out at the same time like at a restaurant. He
shouts from the grill as soon as something is ready and then you holler ass to
go and get your yummy burger. He has a good little system that works. First he crisps
the buns and then adds a little bit of mayo to the top lid and adds the tomatoes,
gherkins, onions and lettuce to the bottom half of the burger. The lettuce pieces
he uses are by far the most enormous leaves I had ever seen! I have no idea
where on earth he gets it from!! My friend had the Peppered Mushroom Burger. She was one of the girls that got there
first so she got her burger before us. I
had a taste, and it was delicious. I couldn’t wait until mine arrived. 
I had
the Chilli Chocolate Molé Burger. It….was.…amazing!
I was afraid that the chocolate might be too overpowering as I didn’t really
feel like chocolate, but you could hardly taste the chocolate. Just the right amount
of what I can only think is a dark chocolate, was used to tone down the chilli.
Just enough chilli and just enough bitter sweetness to make it a perfect match.
Much to the laughter of everyone else, I attempted to eat my burger with a
knife and fork seeing as I was trying to get as much of it in my mouth and as
little as possible on my lap! J It
was really massive! I could not finish the entire burger. I ended up chucking
most of the bun and just having the good stuff! 
Like I mentioned
earlier it was a really cool experience! Something completely different and it
really works. We will definitely go back there. Keep in mind he doesn’t serves
chips or any other side dishes with the burger but after you see the size of
that thing you would not want anything else! But if you do you could always
have nachos with it! When we got home we did all smell quite smokey but I think
it was a combination of the grill smoke as well as the people smoking at our
table.
He is open on
Monday to Saturdays from 5pm until 10pm. This part of Roodehek Street is also a
one way so make sure to enter it from Buitenkant Street and not from Hope
Street.
Yours in fun
& pop up burger joints,
Elly D
6 Roodehek Street (opposite red building)
Gardens
Cape Town
083-4407843
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