Best burger in the world!

This is just a short entry to give worthy praise to the Carnivore restaurant for what I reckon was the best burger I've ever tasted - the Cheesy Dribbler (stop giggling down the back). It was utterly beyond any worldly description, by which I mean it was huge, simple, cheesy, succulent and just plain delicious.

But we almost got duped into a bit of a con. We had no reservation, having just hopped off the local bus and walked up the long driveway, getting a strange stare from the security guard who wasn't too familiar with people 'walking' to such a famous and salubrious establishment (ha - we showed him!). So the front-desk guy consults his huge group-booking chart and then just walked us over to a really nice part of the restaurant and plonked us down. I think food would have just started arriving at our table if Sarah hadn't asked for a menu, but luckily she did, 'cos the waiter said there was no menu in this section, it was an all-you-can-eat buffet thing for a mighty hefty price. But he said if we didn't want that there was another part of the restaurant which was a la carte - so we high-tailed it over there pretty sharpish, since we were only there for lunch anyway.

It turned out to be a great decision, as this part of the restaurant had more life, was right beside the huge BBQ stations that are the centre-piece of the restaurant and the menu had that Cheesy Dribbler burger which we wouldn't have had at the poncy part. I was in gastronomic heaven from this point on, and so will always have a soft spot for Carnivore, even if Sarah did reckon it was a bit Disneyland. I actually liked it and thought the place had genuine character, but I could see what she meant alright.

Oh yeah, and the Karen Blixen house (she wrote the book 'Out of Africa' which was later made into a famous movie with Meryl Streep and Robert Redford I think) was an overpriced rip off (they've quadrupled the entrance price since our Lonely Planet was published), so we didn't bother paying in to see it. The bookshop had a book of photos of the interior anyway, and that book said that all the stuff on display wasn't even original, but that they were film props that had been donated by the movie studio after they shot much of the movie there! We did buy a copy of the book though, and the house and gardens are lovely to walk around, so it wasn't a wasted diversion or anything.