The final place you design to see a two-hatted conduct cook is operative a griddle of a fast-food outlet in a selling mall, though there was Becasse's Justin North tonight, in a glassed-off kitchen during Charlie & Co., his latest venture during Pitt Street Mall's revamped (and crazily overdesigned) Westfield.
Admittedly, this epicurean burger joint wasn't operating during hyperspeed when you were there it took us half an hour to get to a front of a queue as well as then another 45 minutes for a food to appear upon a tray though this is forgiveable when it's a initial day of opening as well as a offerings have been really, really good. (Also, a wait for was "short" compared to others, as overstretched demand meant order-taking had to be temporarily halted.)
When it comes to food courts, you all turn down a expectations cheap choices as well as lunch-hour preference have been what send us to these takeway meccas though Charlie & Co. pitches a peculiarity level deliciously higher.
For instance, The Producers Burger ($12/$14) fixes well-marinated mushrooms with haloumi, baby spinach, a cluster of object dusty tomatoes as well as a good very wet of aioli. Everything is flavour-packed as well as juicy, bypassing a common disaster of veggie burgers being overdry as well as dull of taste. It's great.
Amy had a The Laden Malayan Chicken Burger($13/$15) which contained a initial ever sighting of bok choy in a burger. There's a trace of Asian flavours throughout chilli, galangal as well as shrimp paste as well as although it was impressive, it could've done with a greater slathering of a satay sauce to give a bun more piquancy as well as punch.
There have been lots of alternative informal spins upon a a menu The Maiden Marrakesh Burger with lamb, harissa, tzatziki as well as preserved lemon ($13/$15), The Macho Mexican ($12/$14) with beef, chilli beans, guacamole as well as sour cream, as well as yes, even a locally inspired Federation Burger ($14/$16) (what else says Federation similar to a boiled egg?) though let's not jump over over a crucial grouping of chips.
Probably a most tabloid-scandalous food this year has to be truffle fries, interjection to a barbarous purpose it played in a Lynn Hirschberg/MIA smackdown in a New York Times (The Observer even called a situation "Truffle-gate"). On which topic, we side with a Village Voice food censor who pronounced it didn't matter who appeared to be an elitist/manipulative schmuck for grouping it, as "No one who has a slightest volume of ambience would ever eat anything called a truffle-flavored french fry. They're uniformly awful."
So we was flattering questionable about a Parmesan & Truffle Fries ($8) during Charlie & Co. They were firm to be over-the-top as well as sickening. we was all wrong they're surprisingly subtle, with a shower of cheese as well as a light cloaking of truffle flavour, as well as essentially "can this be possible?" delicious.
Another good side dish is a Asian Coleslaw ($12), which is more similar to a Vietnamese vermicelli salad, dosed with zesty dressing, bean sprouts, Chinese cabbage shreds, as well as a roasted break of peanuts. That's upon my re-order list. (And nutritionally questionable as it is, next time I'd additionally similar to to try a Onion Rings.)
If burgers aren't your thing, there have been additionally toasties as well as a Charlie Chilli Hot Dog ($12/$14) as alternative meal-sating possibilities.
I'! m extrao rdinary to see whether a first-day lines during Charlie & Co. have been a one-off or a permanent fixture. The actuality which it's located in Pitt St Mall, where a culinary alternatives aren't really battling for greatness, already creates it a standout. Also, we have a feeling which a place that's right in a city, with an affordable, convenient menu which has considerable extraction as well as is reliably tasty with lots of revisit intensity yep, that's expected to capture endless crowds. Charlie should design a lot of company.
Charlie & Co., Level 5, Westfield Sydney, dilemma Market & Castlereagh Streets, Sydney NSW (02) 8072 7777, www.charlieandco.com.au
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