And they’re off! Yes, Burger Wellington – part of Wellington On A Plate – starts today, and I had my first burger of the competition.
Nicola was due in Lower Hutt at 1pm for a quartet rehearsal, so we set out for an early lunch at Scorch-O-Rama, our local seaside cafĂ©. Their offering is called The Womble Of Wellington, and is described as such: Buttermilk fried chicken with bacon, avocado, pickles, smoked cheese, lettuce, chutney and chorizo aioli in a Brezelmania charcoal bun. The Garage Project beer match is Hophaus Alt, about which no information is forthcoming, so far as I can see, either from Garage Project or WOAP. Anyway, it’s a hoppy pale ale. The burger looks like this:
That bit pinned to its lid is a battered deep-fried pickle.
It’s immediately obvious that this is not a burger for picking up and eating
with your hands, so I cut into it to see what was on the inside:
There’s quite a lot going on here, as you can tell from the
description. Maybe too much? Well, it seemed to work OK, but the chicken was a
little bit lost amongst all the other ingredients. You’ll have noticed there’s
an absence of chips with this burger. I ordered some but the waiter misheard as
we’d been having a discussion about whether we needed them or not…but he
managed to bring me some poste-haste, so that was OK. For what is a burger
without fries? Can a burger be said to exist without a side of fries? This and
other questions will be answered in the next episode of Soap…
Overall, not a bad burger. I’ll score it a 7/10 and enter that score on the WOAP website…wait, what? There’s nowhere to score the burgers this year? How will they know who’s won?
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