The Joker #3

We were in Courtenay Place at around lunchtime on Saturday, and looking around for a place to have a burger. "Right", thought I, "let's head to Pan De Muerto for their Mollete Burger". On the way we stopped at Osterio del Toro to see what their offering was, but they were shut. Odd, I thought, but we carried on to Pan de Muerto...who were also closed. What's going on? Restaurants shut on a Saturday lunchtime? Undeterred, we reversed direction to head to Monsoon Poon. On the way, I thought "I'll just check that they're open". You guessed it...they're not. Is business so bad on a Saturday lunchtime that these places don't open, and just wait for the evening crowd? Apparently so.

One place that is open is The Bangalore Polo Club. Their entry in the Burger Wellington competition is called The Joker #3. Presumably this follows on from their entry last year, and probably the one before that. It's described like this:

A E Preston's tandoori chicken burger with Kāpiti Brie, bacon, avocado, mango salsa and tomato, with Urban Harvest shoestring fries

It looked like this:

Firstly, you'll notice that there's a lot of bread to this burger - in fact, I left a good chunk of it, as the bread to filling ratio was too high. The bacon was tasty, but the avocado and the brie seemed to have gone AWOL. The chicken had been spiced, but not very strongly - it didn't have the heat that you'd associate with tandoori chicken. Shoestring fries are pretty much as expected, although over-salted. there is no Garage Project beer match with this burger, so I had a Chomp instead.

This burger hadn't been on my original list as it didn't sound all that exciting from the description. And it wasn't all that exciting. it did the job, but all I can award this is a 5/10.