Milk And Cheese

A long time ago, The Trinity Hotel on Willis Street decided to reinvent its bar and restaurant as The Arborist. We’d been there once before in its previous incarnation, but felt it was about time to give it another try. The opportunity arose when I perused the WOAP site looking for somewhere we’d not been to before, and was also serving what looked like a decent Burger Wellington.

Their entry is called Milk And Cheese, and it’s described like this: Beef patty with fig and smoked bacon jam in a Pandoro milk bun, with raclette sauce and fried pickles. The Garage Project beer match is Electric Dry Hop Acid Test, which, as its name suggests, is a sour beer. I’m not mad keen on sour beers, so I chose a Lagunitas IPA instead, which was fine. The burger looks like this:

The trick with the raclette is to pour it onto the burger before it solidifies. Faffing around with a camera phone meant that it had in fact done so before I got to pour it, but fortunately it slid out in one piece and I was able to position it on top of the patty. The patty was well cooked, and the bun was properly toasted. The only other element to the burger was the fig and bacon jam which was salty-sweety, as expected. The fried pickles were a bit of a disappointment: all the pickle flavour had been fried out of them, so they were battered vegetable crisps in all but name. Still, they were crispy enough, if lacking in flavour. The bun held its own until the end. Overall I scored this burger a 7.