Viva Brighton Issue #28 June 2015

food review
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Rockola
Phew, guac & roll
The first thing you notice as you walk into Rockola, on
Tidy Street, is the 50s-style jukebox it was named after,
on this occasion playing The Shadows. There’s a drawing
of Cliff on one of the walls, which are otherwise
covered with photos, portraits and album covers of rock
‘n’ roll stars and other mid-century icons: Elvis Presley,
The Four Tops, Elvis again, Jim Morrison, The Beatles,
a young Liz Taylor, Elvis… you get the picture.
The seats are upholstered in sparkly red and blue,
the central of eight or so tables is flanked by two
same-colour banquettes. I’m on my own, so I choose
a more modest affair by the window. I’ve been looking
forward to an Elvis Burger (a sky-scraper of a thing
I’ve seen advertised on a previous visit there) but am
told that these only get served at the weekend. It’s
Monday lunchtime.
I go for the next best thing, a ‘Guac & Roll Burger’
(with chilli, cheese and guacamole), musing that
sometimes, while on a review assignment, I order food
because it will look good on the page, rather than
because it’s my favoured choice. A colleague arrives to
take a picture of it, luckily before it’s served, so I don’t
have to sit in front of it, slavering, waiting for her.
Then it arrives, with fries, and little pots of relish and
guacamole. “That is a tasty burger,” I think, but don’t
say, as Samuel L Jackson impersonations are corny.
And it is: the beef is succulent; the pungent cheese
vies for attention with the faint chomp of chilli. It’s
properly sloppy. Nutbush City Limits comes onto the
jukebox. I’m a happy man. Alex Leith
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