Dirty dining: Burger bar displays a rough look

The restaurant in Kentish Town has a temporary and reclaimed look. The walls are clad with rusty, corrugated metal sheets seemingly salvaged from an industrial scrapyard or a disused trailer park. Rough wood and oil-drum rubbish bins complete the look.

The simple design goes well with the minimal menu, which offers just two choices for breakfast and a single option for lunch and dinner, the Dirty Burger.

The restaurant’s rough, masculine feel appeals to our New Bikers tribe, who spend their spare time engaged in manual projects and appreciate the honest aesthetics of the shop floor.

Perennial culinary innovators Bompas & Parr explored the ‘culinary implications of dirt’ in their Dirt Banquet in 2011.