Cost: $23.00
Location: 86 Burwood Rd, Burwood NSW
Who knew there was such a dining venue as Coro88 in Burwood!! I certainly did not! Considering that I used to be a Burwood local, but can you blame me? As most would associate Burwood with Chinese food. But in the old Coronation Club (now renamed to Coro88), is this dining room serving up Modern Australian food. Picture stakes, burgers and Chicken Schnitzels, your usual pub grub, but with a modern and classy twist! So, keeping to my promise of only ordering the cheapest thing off menus, I ordered the Bacon & Cheeseburger, but it was no ordinary Cheese burger!
Portioning: The burger was served up on a huge plate, with a generous helping of fries and a burger stack which was going to challenge my jaw and jaw hinge! If I was going to get this down without taking it apart. And being one who does not like to deconstruct a well built burger stack (or use a knife and fork), I had to press down hard on the bun, and limber up my jaw to get my mouth around this one!
Tastiness: Anything with bacon and an Angus beef patty was going to be tasty! But at first all I could taste was the saltiness of the bacon, but because it had been such a long while since I last had a proper pub style burger (or proper meat), I didn’t mind it at all! Mmmmm.
Quality: I couldn’t fault the quality at all! The beef patty was thick and cooked perfectly, the bacon was nice, crispy, and filled up the entire circumference of the burger, the bread bun remained in-tact for the entire meal, and the fries were to die for! They must have been double or triple fried, as each piece were all like those little scrappy end bits from Mackers which were crunchy as hell, but at Coro88 it was like that for all the fries right down to the largest and the longest of them! And there were so many, I rarely find a serving too large, but I almost couldn’t finish my dish. Mind you, I said, I ‘almost’ couldn’t finish my dish. Haaha.
Value for money: Yeah, some items on the menu were expensive (like the 500g T-bone steak at $73), but for $23, I thought my burger was quite reasonably priced considering this day and age and what I was getting. My wife’s Aged Duck breast was well above $23, but it was worth each penny as I hadn’t had a duck this good in a long while!
In the end, we were dining out to celebrate mum’s birthday, so for a celebration it was worth the splurge! I’m just still surprised that Burwood has a restaurant like this! Considering these days, each time one of the OG shops that close down along Burwood Rd is replaced by another Chinese restaurant, it’s refreshing to know that you can still get a good Westie meal in Burwood!
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