Chicken Caesar Salad at the New Sydney Hotel
Hobart, Tasmania
Julianne and I went along to Big Laughs in the Little Pub at the New Sydney to see some local comedians strut their funny stuff.
We decided to get there early and have a meal before the show. Once again, I recorded the review (in a very dodgy Irish accent to mark the fact we were in an Irish pub) on Julianne's mobile phone. Here's a tasty exerpt of what was said on the night:
We're in the New Sydney Hotel. Julianne's just had a chicken caesar salad and it wasn't very good, and we're about to find out just exactly why.
We’re gonna start out with a mark out of 4 for taste. Now, the big problem we have with it is that the taste wasn’t a caesar salad taste because of the ingredients – we’ll get to the ingredients shortly. But, as far as taste goes, it did taste quite reasonable – it just wasn’t the right taste. So...because it just wasn’t the right taste...she can’t mark it up at all. So it’s 2½ out of 4 for the taste.
Moving on to the ingredients...the ingredients were all wrong. The sauce was completely wrong. It was wrong sauce. There was no egg at all...The lettuce was wrong...There was extra spinach that shouldn’t have been there...[The cheese] was mozzarella not parmesan, so it was the wrong cheese. Cor blimey, was there anything that was alright in this thing? The anchovies – how were the anchovies?...The anchovies was [sic] too small – she couldn’t find that. The bacon was good though wasn’t it?...OK – good bacon. Anything else good about it?...The chicken was good but it had weird spices on it so marked down for that...I’m thinkin’ here that the ingredients score is not going to be very high...[Julianne: ½ a point]...½ a point out of 3 for ingredients, oh my goodness. That’s for the bacon right, the ½ a point? OK.
Alright, so we’re currently sitting at 3 out of 7. It’s not looking good for the New Sydney here at all.
Next, we’re going on to presentation. The presentation from me looking at it – it looks very symmetrical. You had the four chicken pieces pointing in towards the middle there [if memory serves correctly, this was accompanied by hand gestures]. Presentation was good...1 out of 1 for presentation.
...Now we’ve got value for money...Good value for money. The cost of it was...[here I turned and looked at the menu board behind me]...$14.50, and quite a big bowl...so 1 out of 1 for that.
...What’s the last one? Service. Excellent service. 1 out of 1.
There we go – 6 out of 10 for the chicken caesar salad...no bonus point for croutons.
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| Total: | 6/10 |
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