Soul Cartel

## 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👍

Take a great cheeseburger and add: 🐷 bacon - just a given! 🐷 bacon jam - drool 🥬 slaw 🌶 jalepenos ‼️ extra 150g beef patty. Hot dam, this just came out as beefy and bacon goodness. The slaw cut through the beef nicely without overpowering it. Jalepenos added that heat it required. Super solid feed.

Review of the special ‘the Larroquette Po Boy’. Um... this should come with a user warning, "two burgers in one". Talk about VFM. This was deceptively massive. Envisage a 12" super soft sub with epic southern fried chook, crunchy slaw (not the plain creamy crap) and a melody of hot sauces. Add jalepenos for shits and giggles. Couldn't stop, and didn't leave me with a food coma. I'm still full and I had it for lunch!

🇺🇸Review of the Chicken Texas🇺🇸 Southern fried chicken, McClure pickles, Spanish onion, lime mayo, TS, double cheese and bacon. Extra crispy southern fried chicken burger (thigh) with heaps of sauce, right on. Only improvement would come with a more focused lime mayo, the flavour got lost with all the awesomeness that was going on. Cheese was melted perfectly as always. Jalepenos added that nice hint of hear too.

🐔 Classic Fried Chicken 🐔 🐓 southern fried chicken - hacked as a double 💦 Soul Cartel sauce 🍅🥬 vegetarian ingredients 🧀 double American cheese Nicely cooked chicken thighs, juicy and crispy, oven melted American cheese, plenty of pickles and a lightly toasted bun. Solid burg but not blow you of your feet. Needed a hit of Frank's or some jalepenos, and some strips of bacon goodness to take it up a notch. Should have let the green stuff slide as well. On a side note, the $1 chips are the best going around. Love the seasoning.

A decent, yet unremarkable offering in Canberra. It was almost pretty good, but just fell short for me. Nice char on the perfectly cooked patty was the redeeming feature. Special mention to the absolute fastest Deliveroo I’ve ever had. Pretty sure it was Lance Armstrong on the pushie.