Under The Sea

What is it with people not being open? Today, we wanted to go to Iron Horse, the pub formerly known as Gasworks, to try their burger for lunch. Better check they’re open, though, so I looked on their website, on Google, and on their facebook page. All said they were open…so, they’d be open, right?

Wrong. They’re shut. Now, the reason we’d selected them is that many of our local Miramar eateries do shut on a Monday, and open up on Tuesday (or Wednesday). But Iron Horse is a 7 days a week venue. Except today. Our choices were limited, so we took a look at what Park Kitchen were offering. It looked OK, so we went round there, and, thankfully, they were open.

My best-laid plan to get back to beef had seriously gone up the spout though, as their burger is a fish-based one. You probably guessed that from the name? The Under The Sea is described thusly: Smoked fish and coconut patty with cucumber, seaweed and ginger salad and wasabi dashi mayonnaise in a Brezelmania coconut bun, with prawn crackers. The Garage Project beer match is Arvo XPA.

It looks like this:

 And it tastes…fishy. Not noticeably smoky, though, and also you wouldn’t know the bun was a coconut one if you hadn’t been told. Nor was there much wasabi in the wasabi mayo. In fact, although it was a nice enough burger, I felt it lacked oomph. None of the promised flavours were big and bold, but rather muted. The most notable things about it were the chewy seaweed, and the prawn crackers. It did the job, but it failed to deliver on its promise. I’m scoring this a 5/10, and I’ll probably continue to avoid PK for the future, as I have been doing so successfully for the last few years – although this has previously been down to their lackadaisical attitude to actually providing a service.