Coco’s Green Burger

This Burger Welly thing is hard! You start off with the best-laid plans, and, like mice, you find them ganging aglay all over the place!

Today we thought we’d hit up the Maranui Café’s offering, The Duke. So, apparently, did everyone else on the south coast. The queue wasn’t quite out the door, but we’d probably have had a half hour wait for a table. Ah well.

We drove back to the Miramar CBD and walked round to Coco At The Roxy. They could accommodate us, so we took our seats and studied the menu for all of five seconds before ordering two burgers. Their burger is called Coco’s Green Burger. It’s described like this on the WOAP website: Monkfish tikka with organic lemon compote, spiced onion and house cultured raita with chickpea chips and kiwiberry chutney. It looked like this:

  

Several things are obvious straight away: this ain’t no meatburger, and those ain’t real chips. Also, those are falafels, which seem to be a bonus addition. The fish was nicely spiced, and the chips were good. The “spiced onion” was in fact a kind of flat onion bhaji, and very tasty. The kiwiberry chutney had a good sourness to it, not overly sweet. The green bun was a bit weird, but tasted OK. This is my first “non-standard” type burger of this year’s adventures, and it’s a good one. I rate it a 9.

There wasn’t an official Garage Project beer match, but I thought I’d have one anyway, so the waiter recommended Bliss lager, which was fine.