ROYAL ALBERT HOTEL SURRY HILLS

ROYALE WITH CHEESE ($14 including a basket of crinkle cut fries and tomato chili sauces chips)

Beef / lettuce / tomato / cheese / tomato sauce / mustard / sliced pickles on burger and whole pickle skewered on top of burger. 

About time I got out of the Pyrmont Point Hotel, so off to the Royal Albert Hotel in Surry Hills to try their "Royale With Cheese". Obviously taking it's name from Pulp Fiction, the burger reminded me of what that movie's "Big Kahuna Burger" looked like and (may have) tasted like. Basically, it was one nasty little greaseball!

No beating around the bush, the burger was tasty. The meat was cooked well and tasted good, but it was super greasy. The sauce/mustard/pickle combo made for a very tasty little artery clogger, but there was so much sauce! Probably no surprise that those same attributes led to it being a very sloppy burger. Each bite was causing the bun and beef patty to slide about and not hold it's form, which made it hard to eat. It was made even more difficult to eat with the sauce dripping out all over the chips!

As I may have mentioned in a previous blog, I am a big fan of pickle on a burger, so it was good to have not only the sliced pickles on the burger, but also the whole pickle to finish the meal off with. Also, the spicy dipping sauce that came with the chips was really good!

So overall, not bad, it had some good points, but I can't score it too high as it was just too hard to hold onto while eating, and while I'm well aware you don't get a burger for it's health value, this one was just a bit too greasy for me.

Dan's Score: 3/5