Friday 29 August 2014

At Meat Lovers


It’s Meat Lovers this time.
After reading about them in many online food discussion groups on facebook,I decided to check in couple of nights ago, 26th September to be exact. I wonder why they became popular despite serving food that is below par. Is it that I have a problem with my palates? Or that place had a bad service that night? Grilled sandwich looked greasy. It looked the least appetizing. Taste was horrible. Using sweet sauce was a major error in this culinary adventure.
The place has a messy surrounding and the interior is a bit shabby too. It just became worse when my eyes and nose started to get irritated by the smoke. So you sit in front of a gas grill that is probably never to be used and a big cylinder in your sight, with watering eyes and a disturbing odour of smoke. It seemed like all the food is actually grilled in an electric grilling machine.
Menu design and the options of food just added to their misery. I couldn’t understand the difference between pepperoni sandwich and grilled sandwich, because even after promising roasted beef the grilled sandwich actually had pepperoni inside. And the pictures of chicken wings with chilly sauce were even worse where the sauce looked like splash of burnt red oil around the chicken.
My grilled sandwich was served on tissue paper, which is not the right way to serve. It didn’t take long for the tissue paper to stick to the sandwich, and that is why you shouldn’t serve food on tissue paper like that. I want to enjoy my time eating a sandwich when I am paying for it in a fast food shop, and definitely not waste my time trying to get rid of the tissue paper from the bread.
Bread was crispy but looked horrible. Pepperoni slices inside were topped with generous portions of mozzarella, but the choice of sauce killed it. Processed meat being the major meat inside a sandwich just takes all the fun away. You can prepare them at home for a cost much lower than what you would pay to eat this sandwich at Meat Lovers. Curly fries were interesting and tasted okay, but nothing special. They were anything but crispy.
I don’t bother telling about the details of texture here cause there was nothing prepared right then. Everything is store bought and assembled. This is a cheap way to serve guests in a place,which by its name promises meaty delights.