After yesterday’s failed attempt, we got out early-ish to
Zealandia for a walk in the winter sunshine.
We had a beverage in Rata café, but I don’t rate their burger-making
skills after last year’s effort, so we pulled out the burg-a-matic to find
somewhere for lunch. “How about Basque?”
I asked, and we were in agreement.
Preston's beef with housemade white wine cheese, burnt
onion sour cream and semi-dried tomatoes in a Clareville Bakery bun, with baked
potato and remoulade.
Now, we’d seen a couple of these burgers being delivered to
the table next to us, and Nicola in particular was taken with the baked potato
accompaniment instead of chips. When it arrived, however, they brought us
chips. No explanation, no apology.
So it looked like this:
There’d clearly been some additional cooking of the bun
going on, and the top was sticky. Also, the insides were quite slippery – this was
going to be a cutlery burger, not a pick up one. Inside, the meat was cooked
medium rare, which was good. The cheese was very strongly flavoured, and rather
overpowered the rest of the burger. The chips were good and crispy, but, no,
there was no remoulade or parmesan topping.
I was a bit disappointed with this burger and scored it a
6. Back to work tomorrow, and burgers at lunchtime. Hopefully I’ll find
that perfect 10!
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