Cormac

OK, I’ve had it with burgers that don’t live up to expectations. Today we went to local joint Café Polo for their Burger Wellington offering, Cormac.

It’s described on the WOAP website like this:

Wagyu beef patty with smoked cheese, red onion, lettuce, jalapeño and pickle comeback sauce, and spiced carrot jam in a housemade 'carrot top' bun, with curly fries and sweet 'n' sour sauce

It looked like this: 

The Garage Project beer match was Red Dog, a red IPA with Japanese flavours designed to go well with a burger. It’s a tasty brew with a good, strong flavour. 

And yes, it delivered! The patty: big, filling the bun, juicy, cooked medium rare. The sauce and red onions were generously applied – so much so that the burger was a bit slippery, and I decided to go in with knife and fork rather than risk squirty burger syndrome – you know, when you bite into the burger and everything flies out the opposite side. There was a healthy portion of curly fries with accompanying sweet & sour sauce. Overall, a good combo, with a bit of heat coming from the jalapeno. Definitely a recommendation, and I’m scoring this one 9/10. Why not 10? The superfluous  lettuce and the unpickupability of the burger, otherwise this would be perfect.

OK, where to next? Who can challenge this hunk of beefy goodness?