A visit to Zealandia is always a good time to stop off in town and try a burger. On this occasion, I headed to one of my favourite burger haunts in non-WOAP times, Choice Bros. Their wagyu burger is a staple and one of the best burgers generally available in Wellington. They’ve gone with chicken for Burger Wellington.
The Boozy Bird is described thus: IPA-brined fried chicken with housemade bacon jalapeño and yellow cardi jam, pickled radicchio leaf and pickled daikon in a Zaida's black and white sesame seed Turkish bun with thick-cut fries. As Choice Bros is a microbrewery, it would be invidious to ask them to supply a Garage Project beer to match it…instead, one of their own brews, Starman, is the order of the day.
It looks like this:
The chicken breast had been hammered flat and fried. I didn’t detect any particular IPA-ness to the flavour, but it was certainly brined and juicy. One of the issues with using a schnitzel-style chicken as your patty is the burger-to-meat ratio; this was solved by supplying two pieces of chicken, so it was a satisfyingly thick burger. The bun held together well, and the pickled daikon added a bit of crunch and zinginess to the burger. The fries were also good. Overall, a good burger, I scored this a 7/10.
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