G & T Burger

The more quick-witted amongst my readership may have noticed that Burger Wellington is this year taking place in October, rather than the customary August. This is, of course, due to the covids. The original aim of WOAP was to encourage people into restaurants and other venues during the cold, dark days of winter (i.e. August), helping venues to survive through the lean months. Naturally, when the plague struck, the festival was put on hold, but with remarkable alacrity they managed to reorganise for October.

 

Tuesday night is our regular quiz night at The Old Bailey, so I decided to try their burger offering, the G & T Burger. It’s described like this: Reid + Reid gin infused lamb and venison patty with crispy bacon and jalapeño cheese spread in a Zaida's spirulina brioche bun, with cross trax fries. It looks like this:

 

The Garage Project beer match was Hāpi Daze - an old classic that I was happy to wash the burger down with.

The Old Bailey is not known for its cuisine – they serve fairly standard pub grub most of the time. This was actually better than their normal burger, which is fairly run of the mill. I couldn’t detect any gin in the burger, but this may have been due to the fact that the flavours of the burger were pretty well dominated by the jalapeño. As they say on Cheftermast, make sure your dish is in balance. In this case it wasn’t, so I was just left with the overwhelming chilli. The cross trax fries were a sort of potato waffle. They weren’t salted enough (and there’s no salt & pepper on tables these days, because, you know, covids) and they may have been better off just doing chips. So overall not a great burger. I’m scoring it 5/10. As mentioned previously, there's nowhere to actually record our scores this year, for reasons.

Anyway, I know that what you really want to know is how we did in the quiz. We came 3^rd.