Soul Cartel

Cheeky midweek burg. Stock cheeseburger hacked with fried chicken and jalapeños. Beef was perfectly pink, ground well, chicken thigh juicy as always. Mustard and ketchup combo worked a treat on the chicken. Nod of approval from the chef says it all. Gotta be my new favourite combo🤙

This was a skill test, dexterity required in spades. Double southern fry thigh chicken and bacon all smothered in a franks based sauce. When it comes out and you can’t see the bottom bun 🤔 Just mental! Dead set, one of the best. As close as I have come to a 🦄, just needed a sweet element. Maybe bacon jam!

When the government offers half price burgers through the Choose Canberra program, I was like a fat kid on a smarty...but in adult form. Usual solid feed from soul cartel, smokey smashed beef patties, doubled down, beautifully melted cheese and lots of sauces blending together. I would pay full price anytime for this, but half price made it even better. No surprise the program lasted only 24 hours!

On the 11th day, God said... put peanut butter on a burger. Someone then made the Cult Classic (pictured). Nuff said.

Review of "Bacon Deluxe". Just a bloody enjoyable burger. Hacked with an extra patty. Core ingredients were lashings of streaky bacon, onions, Jalapeños, yanky cheese, cartel sauce and one of the best "killer" bbq sauces going around. Sweet, but not OT. Add a lightly toasted bun... 🤤.

## Cartel Works Burger ## This week the burgers from Soul Cartel are pineapple themed and I picked this one. 🐓Southern fried chicken (hacked x2) 🐷Streaky bacon 🍍Grilled pineapple 🧀Tasty cheese 🥬Lettuce 💦Cartel sauce 💦Killa BBQ sauce 🌶Jalapeños Gotta love doubling down on fried chicken. Makes Fridays that much easier being in a food coma🤙 Adding pineapple made this burger a handful to control, extra slippery and juicy, resulting in a fail halfway through. It was grilled on the flat top but not for long enough to create a strong caramel flavour. Up side was the perfectly cooked Southern fried thigh chicken, soft but toasted bun and cartel sauce. Overall solid burg heading into the weekend.

Just one of those days when things weren’t gelling, including my photography skills. Flavourful s/f burger with a nice franks sauce but the chicken size was too small today. Add in the shadows that hampered the pic, and all I can conclude is that I need to have another burger and try again!

Review of the "Cult Burger" (yes that is spelt correctly 😉). This burger popped my peanut butter 🍒, and it was epic!!! 2 X 150g beef patties, bacon jam, streaky bacon, cartel sauce, cheese, onion... All smothered in crunchy peanut butter. This just blew my mind, I don't know how the peanut butter gelled so well with the rich medium cooked beef patties and bacon but it did. The peanut butter didn't dominate, rather creating this flavour I can't describe. It drew the BBQ flavour out of the meat, adding a creamy tone. Add in a handful of brined jalepenos and this went close to being my first unicorn but I took a bit off as I think some fried chicken or a fried mozzarella patty could improve it. Well done chef👍