Love Stack

 And they’re off! Yes, Wellington On A Plate is under way again, and with it, the Burger Wellington competition.

First cab off the rank was at our usual Tuesday night venue, The Old Bailey, where we were attending Quiz Night. Their offering is called Love Stack, and it is described thus on the WOAP website: Beetroot and beef patty, with haloumi cheese, crispy onion rings, cos lettuce, tomato, cucumber pickle, pesto and beetroot relish in a Brezelmania bun, with fries. The DVB* beer match is Thirst Crunch (Peach IPA), which I eschewed in favour of my usual Panhead Supercharger.

It looks like this:

OK, things to note: the bun is in fact pink, presumably from inclusion of beetroot in the bun (not mentioned). The beef burger itself seems to be their standard beef patty – I couldn’t detect any beetroot in the patty itself. Given the height of this burger I didn’t even attempt to eat this with my hands, I went straight in with the cutlery.

How was it? Well, they’ve thrown everything but the kitchen sink into this burger. The individual components were OK (apart from the rather pointless lettuce leaf and tomato), but there was no sense of cohesion about this burger. Yes, you can put lots of things into a burger; do they work together? In this instance, I’d have to say a resounding NO. I scored this a disappointing 4/10.

p.s. It seems I said much the same about their previous year's effort. The year before that wasn't much cop either. 

* Yes, after more than 10 years sponsoring the Burger Wellington competition, Garage Project have bowed out and handed the reins over to DVB, or Double Vision Brewing, a Miramar-based brewery. I’ll try some of their products with other burgers.