Category: Burger Wellington

Sometimes the best way to compete is just to play the game well. The theme for Burger Wellington this year is ‘Play With Your Food’ and so far, it’s been a lot of fun little things but I’ve been really hungry for something that commits. Something that really makes me feel like I’m playing with… Read more

You ever take a bite of something, and think ‘oh, this is special’? Maybe it’s something you’ve never tasted before, maybe it’s the perfect execution of something you love. And sometimes it’s a flavour you’d thought you’d forgotten and you get whisked back ratatouille-style to a corned beef and coconut paradise that you haven’t thought… Read more

There’s a secret in fried chicken circles that’s pretty well kept. It’s that Taiwanese fried chicken is the best fried chicken. This is inarguable. Do not try. You will lose. The Ayam! In Wellington by Frankie’s Bar + Eatery is probably the only time I’ve seen Taiwanese fried chicken in Wellington. It’s got all the… Read more

I’m not a basketball person, but I know a slam dunk when I see one. Don’t be fooled by the sketch on the WOAP website, The Three Pointer by Gemini Café is as real as it gets when it comes to flavour and style. It’s a burger that many might skip over due to the… Read more

I really like a well-thought out burger. Something that tells me that yes, every aspect of design was planned and executed cleanly. From concept to mouthful, the Gimme a Coal nails its brief. I can only imagine that somebody on the Keihei team picked up a marker and simply wrote on the whiteboard ‘Charcoal BBQ’… Read more

I love a chilli and having it in a burger might be giving sloppy joe’s, but if you think of it as a sauce, then it all makes sense. The Fuegos Libre by Dillingers’ is loaded with tasty meat from the beef brisket patty to the juicy chilli con carne. It’s not very spicy which… Read more

If you don’t know what min-maxing is, it’s the concept of maximising a certain aspect of one thing via the sacrifice of everything else, and the idea is that you apply that principle to a few different things so that the maximised elements make up for the minimised elements elsewhere. Take the Pull My Cheek… Read more

I’m a big fan of cheese. And I’m a big fan of being rich. So when the title of Mr. Go’s Welly on a Plate offering evokes both cheesiness and wealth, you’d better believe I’m in. It’s taken a little longer than I would have liked to get to the Fromage & Fortune, but like… Read more

It’s easy to forget what the purpose of Welly on a Plate is, sometimes. Is it to get as many eyes as possible on Visa and their superior transactions per minute KPIs? Is it to extort thousands of dollars out of local restaurants so that they don’t get abandoned for the first few weeks of… Read more

There’s an ancient proverb that has guided mankind for millennia. The everlasting wisdom of ‘Go Big or Go Home’. The Cheesy Brisket Jam Slam doesn’t know the way home. That massive deep-fried block is mac ‘n’ cheese. The pieces of brisket are huge, stringy slices that lay out of the bun like Enjolras in the… Read more