Haloumi – Full of Beans

Tonight, my husband and I went to Burger Republic in Hyde Park, and I had the Hallouminati burger. The Hallouminati burger contains grilled haloumi, charred pumpkin, beetroot relish and rocket, and it costs $16.50.

And it was delicious! To be honest, I relieved my burger of most of its rocket because… I don’t like rocket. But the other ingredients all worked perfectly together. You really can’t go wrong with haloumi and pumpkin, and the sweet beetroot relish rounded everything out perfectly. Yum! We also enjoyed the fact that the price of every burger includes a serve of chips!

The seating area at Burger Republic was quite nice, but it was nearly full even on a Wednesday night, so take away might be a good choice. Burger Republic is also very proud of its range of beers, but as a pregnant lady I did not find this very relevant to my current interests.

Burger Republic also have one other vegetarian burger, called the Garden Burger, which has onion rings in it so I’m probably never going to try that!! They only have the one location.

Flavour: 10/10. Just awesome.
Satiety: 8/10. It wasn’t huge but it was plenty.
Structure: 9/10. The structural integrity was impressive.
Chips: 9/10. The chips were medium thickness, nice and crispy while being soft on the inside.
Overall score: 9/10. Super great!

Please note: All reviews on this site are intended purely as personal opinion. Prices and ingredients should be checked with the retailer.

Dear reader, I like haloumi very, very much. So for tonight’s burger, I chose the Squeaky Cheese from Enuf Burger on Anzac Highway at Glenelg. The Squeaky Cheese contains crumbed haloumi, red onion, cucumber, carrot, alfalfa sprouts, baby spinach and paprika mayo, and costs $10.90.

A special feature at Enuf Burger is that you can have your choice of five different types of bun: white, wholemeal, damper, brioche (apparently a new addition?) and GF. Unfortunately, I chose the boring white bun, a safe but cowardly decision I have since regretted. Sometimes in life, it is better to take a risk.

With the combination of the ingredients and the bun, I felt like I was basically eating a salad roll with a bit of mayo on it. It was fine, but my soul was not lit on fire at any point. I actually feel like the other flavours masked the deliciousness of the haloumi, which really was great when I ate a piece on its own.

N.B. Enuf also make two other veggie burgers: the Millie Fillie and the Bubble and Squeak.

Flavour: 6/10. I confess, with apologies, that I do not really like onion. This may have contributed to the problem. I would have liked more focus on the haloumi.
Satiety: 9/10. I am very full.
Structure: 7/10. The haloumi was in about three big chunks, and fell out of the burger a few times, but was easy to put back in. The mayo held everything else together well.
Chips: 8/10. On the menu, they advertise their chips as super crunchy. While the chips were certainly crunchy-ish, I don’t think we need to throw around superlatives willy-nilly. Also, they had a bit too much salt.

Overall score: 6.5/10. This burger was fine, but I will order something else next time.

Please note: All reviews on this site are intended purely as personal opinion. Prices and ingredients should be checked with the retailer.

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