Steak Sandwich - The Coro - Milton

We were hoping for some burger action when we went to the 'Coro' for some lunchtime cheer on Friday. The Coro`s upstairs decor is the waiting cocktail bar entrance to 'Lure' - which is a high calibre fancy schmancy seafood restaurant. Apparently its pretty good. Its worth visiting this place for all the colour flashing light changing walls and tables - they have mist over toilets and the Mens urinal changes colour to music like the wall of truth - or 'wonderwall' if you will.
Anyways no burgers to be found but a pretty good $14.95 Steak Sandwich to accompany your $7 beer.

Coro Steak Sandwich - as delivered

Steak Sandwich close up

The fries accompanying the steak sandwich were pathetic. But the steak/bacon/salsaey topping combination was awesome. My only real criticism was the bread extended a lot further than the steak did so your last few mouthfuls were all bread - lucky i had some fries to wrap that bread around. Not really a burger so I can`t rate it on a burger scale - but pretty good nonetheless.

Classic Burger - The Pavillion - West End

Ah where to go for a burger? Last friday was shaunaks turn to drive - he`s a chicken burger kind of a guy, so I googled something like Brisbanes best chicken burger. What popped up? The pavillion at West End. These burgers were phenomenal - they came with pumpkin and sweet potato chips - which I rated but the younger guys did`nt.

Shaunak's chicken burger - nice floret of avocado!

Brent's classic cheshire burger

My classic as delivered - It seemed a bit narrow at this point
but check out all of that kassler bacon

Profile of my classic

These rolls were awesome - those black bits are olives baked into the bread!

My classic midway - I`ve been hanging out for this kind of action!!

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The lunch time deal at the pavillion is a Burger and a beer for $14.95. You can sit out on the patio and watch the world go by. Great burgers - slightly greasy at the end, and the pumpkin chips weirded out the lads. But there was a nice lack of salad! Excellent Signal to Noise - No artificial amplitude here friends. We scored these puppies Solid 8`s around the table.

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Classic Burger - Seasons Ashgrove

I spotted Seasons at Ashgrove one evening when I was picking up some curries fro Taj Bengal Indian restaurant - which for the record makes the best curries in brisvegas (Bengal Fish Curry). I wandered past what looked like a fish and chip shop when I spotted the magic words 'Gourmet Burgers'.
Checked and noted, I put that in my mental back pocket and plotted to head back to sample the burger wares at the nearest most practicable occasion. That happened to be a Tuesday night. We did`nt feel like cooking so I brought up the burger thang and we headed down there. I have to admit I was fairly excited by the prospect of a localish gourmet burger hot spot - Frankly I had high hopes.
When we arrived, I maintained my optimism but my lady was`nt so convinced. The gourmet selection had a lot of variety of meats ( pork and turkey burgers amongst the mix ) but there was nothing that differentiating about the salad selections - 'stock' would be the word I`d use.
So I ventured the right hand path and ordered the classic burger with cheese. Courtney tried the 'Chicken from the East'. For giggles we thought we`d order a couple of 'crab claws'.
Here`s my plate as delivered:-

Classic with cheese next to Crab Claw

Close up Classic

Classic Midway

First thing to notice is the dodgy knot roll. These looked like standard Coles 6 in a bag pull apart your self kind of rolls. The menu advertised 'Gluten Free' rolls - but these were`nt available on the night. I suppose gourmet could refer to the dried herby/pepper sprinkled on the plate.

So working up to the burger, I bit in to my 'crab claw' and it was still frozen on the inside!! Yowza, bad start. Took them back to the apologetic counter lady and went about biting into my burger. Suprisingly, the meat pattie was pretty tasty. What let my burger down was the light as air knot roll. This was something my mum might have dished me up to shut me up about 20 years ago - but she would`nt have called it a gourmet burger.
The chicken from the east burger was a shocker. No 'burger ness' this was slither pieces of old lukewarm chicken partially reheated, doused in some dodgy sauce you could hardly taste and topped with a bit of lettuce and tomato. I ate a chunk of chicken and it was rubbery. It tasted like it was reheated - and only barely. Under the tasteless sauce the airy roll disintegrated, and for a small burger this made a lot of mess. Courtney rated The Chicken from the East a 4.
I gave my classic a 5.5 - was probably worth a 6.5 but the frozen crab claw was an awful start.

Spicy Tuna Burger - Raw Energy Mooloolaba

We made the Sunday mission up to the Sunshine coast to go for a swim after a few weeks of rain. Mooloolaba has a reasonable strip of cafes/restaurants so we thought we`d explore. There was a full fledged burger joint here, but the white rolls did`nt appeal to me on this healthy living sunday. Further on down the road we spotted Raw Energy. This reminded us of Dan and his hippie raw food dumpster diving friends. Dan`s mate Harley only ever eats raw foods. He once ate a raw Big Mac in California!! Dan has adopted a raw foods diet and told us all about it on his way in transit from Fiji to Cairns. Anyway Danny Boy this post is for you!
Raw Energy has a bright and vibrant feel but relaxed attitude. They have a large range of fresh vegetariany/healthy/raw foods and juices. In this vein I opted for a Spicy Tuna Burger. Courtney was all keen on some pear/blue cheese cacophony, after taking 10 minutes to decide they told her they had none left - so she had to get a mexibean avocado wrap of some sort. Heres a picture of Lady Bo - you can see her thinking 'god I hope I ordered the right thing???' Note the giant pineapple - they use plastic fruits on sticks instead of numbers.


It turned out they were out of a lot of stuff on this particular Sunday - rye burger buns were substituted with thick cut rye bread - Anyway without further ado here is the Raw Energy Spicy Tuna Burger . . .
Yes thats a shit load of Salad amplitude - I struggled to get a good shot of the 'pattie' (what pattie?) The next photo shows the healthy dose of mayo and a tad of bbq sauce - along with alfalfa sprouts of all things - Healthy eating marks high - for a burger its a big ba-bow - but again what would one really expect.

To be honest I actually struggled to taste any tuna whatsoever in this 'burger'. When I bit into what I thought was a pattie chunk ended up being a piece of potato. This is a burger at avery long stretch - I`d estimate no more than a quarter of a baby tin of tuna on this bad ass salad sandwich.
So check it - half way thru - i`ve removed half a lettuce of greens and theres no pattie to be seen except a few tiny nugs on the plate, and as i mentioned before this seemed to be predominantly potato. Make no mistake - this was a healthy ass lunch - but on the Burger scale I can only give it a 3. And thats for the rye bread, healthiness and view (overlooking mooloolaba beach). But even though Raw Energy won`t satisfy burger-lust I do recommend stopping in to sample some of their healthy raw food wares ( although they were`nt as hardcore raw as I expected ). Courtneys mexibean avocado wrap was superb!

Non burger Interlude - Black Pepper Chicken

I cooked a great Black Pepper chicken dish the other night. We bought a random jar of black pepper marinade and I thought black pepper chicken would be a winner. The dish is fairly basic - Fry an onion cut in triangles - add some capsicum. At the same time cook some cut up carrot in the microwave with a bit of water. Add the par cooked microwave carrot to the onion and capsicum til mostly cooked, with the juice, - then remove (pour it into one of your serving bowls to save dishes). Now get your diced up chicken breast and cook turning once until its not pink. Add the vegies, add 3 sliced up birdseye chilis and stir a bit - Add 3 Tablespoons of black pepper sauce from the jar with half a glass of red wine and a bit of water. Add some large cut mushrooms and cook for a while stirring until the mushrooms absorb a good amount of juice.
With this meal we were lucky to have some left over lemon rice from the fantastic Taj Bengal Restaurant at Ashgrove. This rice was microwaved til warm then formed the base of the bowls.
Scoop stir fry on top, add a few leaves of fresh basil and serve - lovely!!!

Dinner for two

Breakfast the next day cooked by the lovely courtney - this is sweet potato,onion,chili and rice scrambled eggs on burgen seeded wholemeal toast. Tasted much better than it looks believe!

Grill`d Bulimba - The three-quel

So the lads at work had to go and try grill`d. This time I decided to try the Hot Mamma burger with roast capsicums, jalapenos and harissa paste - Awesome! Solid 8.5s around the table.

Hot Mamma flanked by 2 chicken burgers

Hot Mamma Front On