The Fat Hippo is a tiny but kirky restaurant situated on St. Georges Terrace in Jesmond. It's a busy little place with informal service. It's all about the burgers at The Fat Hippo. There are alternatives like; clubs, salads, steaks, moules, ribs and chicken burgers, but their beef burgers are what they're renowned for. Their burgers are hand-crafted and made from 100% Northumbrian beef. There are currently eleven beef burgers to choose from, and you can make your own, so Tegan and I found it hard to decide which to choose. I went for 'The Fat Hippo' - burger with bacon, chorizo, pepperoni, melted cheese, caramelised onions and onion rings, it was my first visit so it had to be done. Tegan went for 'Stinky Pete' - burger with caramelised onions, jalapeños and blue cheese. What arrived in front of us was 1/2 a pound of juicy beef burger, which was pink in the middle, served in a square ciabatta on a wooden board with a side of hand-cut chunky chips, home-made coleslaw and a salad garnish. My burger was HUGE, I didn't know where to start. They were bloody delicious though! Top class burgers! I was determined to demolish the lot ... mission completed! This was washed down with a yummy chocolate milkshake. I'm already planning my next return - I want to try their 'Surf 'n' Turf' burger, their 'Danger Mouse' burger and their 'Texas BBQ' burger.
Thanks to me 'checking-in' at The Fat Hippo on facebook I have now landed myself the name 'Hippopotaness'. The Fat Hippo's menu defines a 'Hippo' as - a large mammal, which spends its days grazing, drinking, wallowing and socialising. No wonder my brothers friend thought the restaurant had been named after me!
The Fat Hippo also serves breakfast and does a 'Hippo Hour'. 1 course £6.95, 2 courses £8.95 and 3 courses £9.95. I was absolutely stuffed after that burger so God knows how anyone fits in a starter or a pudding.
After a cheeky cider, and a digestion break, on Osbourne Road we decided to pop into Archers Ice-Cream Parlour on Acorn Road and check out what all the fuss was about. We chose to sit in as the sun had decided it wasn't coming out to play. I chose three scoops - peanut, cookies and cream and hokey pokey. Tegan chose the same but instead of hokey pokey she chose apple crumble. It was the most gorgeous ice-cream. Really creamy! You can eat it out of a glass, out of a tub, out of a chocolate cone or a hundreds and thousands sprinkled cone. I liked the ice-cream so much that I got three scoops to take-away - apple crumble, raspberry pavlova and black cherry. There are sixteen flavours of Jersey ice-cream on offer at one time. It's a kiddies heaven! Especially with an ice-cream named 'kids chaos' on offer. However, you're never too old for ice-cream, especially when they have a gin and tonic ice-cream, it wasn't there this time but I HAVE to try it. I watched someone have their ice-cream rolled in hundreds and thousands which reminded me of my childhood. I think I may have to try this just once so I can re-live my childhood for five minutes.
I am most definitely going back to try one of their ice-cream milkshakes and their knickerbocker glory. Hopefully their gin and tonic ice-cream will be making an appearance soon as I really am desperate to try it.
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