…is it worth the price?
Cost:
- single burger £3.99, £5.99 for a meal.
- double burger £5.49, £7.49 for a meal.
You may have seen that Burger King released a new halloumi burger in the recent weeks, well being the food lovers that we are we couldn’t wait to get our hands on it! Anything with the word halloumi in it already has our names written all over it.
The burger usually comes complete with either a single or double halloumi patty, crisp lettuce, onions, tomato and creamy mayo all sandwiched in between a beautiful brioche bun. Note the word usually. Im not sure if we arrived too late or if the Burger King we went to didn’t prepare very well but they ran out of brioche buns, so we weren’t off to a great start from, but we proceeded anyway because we needed to know if this was as good as it looked! (I would insert one of the promo photos here but I don’t want to get sued for copywrite, I’m sure you guys understand).
We both bought the double halloumi burger meal and a portion of chicken fries each (if you haven’t already you need to try those) and it came to a grand total of £24…yes you read that right, £24 whole English pounds for some bread with cheese in and some fries, i’m sorry but we only pay those prices for FiveGuys.
After we got over the shock of the price we thought we better take a look at this burger. We unwrapped it with excitment and….it did not look like the promo photo whatsoever! We knew we weren’t getting the brioche bun but instead we were given the whopper burger bun which we all know is very large, so it engulfed the contents of the burger, of which looked like they had been thrown in as you can see from the image above (and this was after some slight arranging to make it some what photo worthy), but we took the long awaited bite anyway.
We both looked at each other with the same dissapointed look on out faces…the halloumi patties in itself were a bit tasteless, and could have done with being a bit more saltier. It defiantly had the typical squeak that halloumi has but when we received it it was quite cold which makes it chewy, halloumi needs to be served piping hot in order for it to still be soft. We are glad we went for the double patties because they are quite thin in comparison to what you think you will be getting in the promo photo, so you need the double burger to be able to get a hint of flavour. We definitely had too much bread to burger ratio but that was probably be because of the wrong bun being used, so that could have contributed to the lack of flavour.
Needless to say we were quite disappointed with the product, especially for the price we paid for it. When you can go to other fast food chains and get a full meal for £5 that is very tasty, £24 for two just seems a bit too expensive. We can justify it if it was a bacon double cheeseburger, which is Levi’s usual order, and paying for quality meat products but not for two bits of cheese with a bit of salad in a bun (and did we mention it was the wrong bun).
Its not the best burger we’ve tasted, it didn’t blow our socks off but its defiantly not the worst either, it was just a bit meh, and we were left feeling disappointed. That being said we think it is a great option to have on the menu if you are a vegetarian as we don’t think many fast food chains cater to that diet choice enough, just don’t be expecting your tastebuds to explode from it!
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