Sunday, August 30, 2015

Day 14 - overcome by offal

Another 1,054m after work on Thursday and then to Capitol to be brave and try 'The Brain Burger': Lightly crumbed lambs’ brains with celeriac and caper remoulade, and crispy sage in a Pandoro brioche bun. 

I am not a huge offal person, but do eat things like lambs kidneys and would happily eat just about anything Capitol can serve up. The burger came out. It looked and smelled beautiful. The bun was golden, there was inviting remoulade poking out and two crunchy crumbed bits of lambs brain were perched inside the burger. I took one bite. It was creamy. It was very unfamiliar. I thought about what I was eating and then just could not go any further. The burger wasn't devoured by my table companions, but they did a lot better than me. I feel it is unfair to rate a burger that I only had one bite of, so I am not giving it an official score. I do think that the creaminess of the brain may have been a bit much with creamy remoulade in any event. I very much enjoyed the pappardelle the person next to me ordered.