Fork & Brewer

It’s Friday, and time to tackle another burger in my quest for the perfect 10 in the Burger Wellington competition. I know in advance that this one’s not going to score it, because my (self-imposed) rule is that the perfect burger is going to be a beef burger. A lot of establishments are offering up non-beef burgers as part of the competition, ranging from the obvious (lamb, chicken, turkey), the not-so-obvious (pork, ostrich, fish, hare), the offal (both brain and tongue are available in burger form), and the sweet (several variations on a dessert burger). Today’s offering at The Fork &Brewer, one of Wellington’s craft beer pubs, was a pork burger.

We turned up at the appointed time, got some beers, and placed our order for 5 burgers (this was a work outing). 5 minutes later the waitress returns with some bad news: they’ve run out of burgers. We expressed our incredulity, then ordered other food from the menu. Naturally, the burger was awarded 0 points for failure to turn up. There’s no picture, either. So, Fork & Brewer, a bit of a FAIL there. We discussed the option of going back at a later date, but after some discussion (about the availability of refrigeration equipment and other methods of ensuring that you don’t run out of burgers) we decided that a place that couldn’t organise itself to provide the meals it was advertising didn’t deserve our custom.

More burger shenanigans next week.