Accra Burger Hunters: HONEYSUCKLE

Hiya guys!

Back at it! Oh, we're fine, thanks! Not much to complain about; our other job is eating burgers so everything is NICE!

This week we tried Honeysuckle in Osu. It's just opposite that Fire Service road, same road as Papa's Pizza.

Now I cant speak for Dave, but I was excited! Honeysuckle used to be my JOINT! I mean there are many pictures of my friends and I with their signature striped walls featured etc....Let's not reminisce too much, yah?

Okay so we got there at 9 sharp and found some seats. For those that don't know, Honeysuckle is basically a British pub. Well, it has that pub feel, which is what they were going for, and it works.

There's a pool table too, but it was on the other side.

Yah, so we sat down and our waitress brought us menus, took our drinks order and brought us our drinks.....and then DISAPPEARED!

Ummmm...

There was nothing left to do but eavesdrop...the table next to us was not happy. Something about not being able to pay by card yet again and the waitress's attitude but that's none of our business. *sips tea*

We looked at the menu and...

What you see is true shock (not posed at all) and that's David's "HUH?" face.

First of all, these are regular burgers. There was nothing on there that said gourmet, nothing with extra special beef...so we didn't get why average prices of a single patty was 55 and a double 65 cedis. Ugh.

At this point we were getting frustrated and I was 2 seconds away from calling Gifty, my trusty Honeysuckle waitress from her section to serve us. (Shout out to Rockson; another EXCELLENT ride or die waiter there!)

Our waitress finally surfaces, but to clean up the table next to us! We call her over. She didn't think we wanted to eat, (but gave us menus - huh?)

I had the "Like to get to know you well done" burger with onion rings because it was the closest thing to a classic burger and Dave had the "Return of the (Big) mack" with fries. Single patties for each.

After a 25 minute wait (no bueno), our burgers arrived. David's burger....well there wasn't anything "big" about it really. Single patty or not, he felt it should have been big because that's what it's called. I agree. My burger looked nice though.

Ok no touching. PICTURES!

(The manager comes over to ask if all is well! He might be on to us.)

mmmm...cheeeese!

TIME TO EAT! (and record voice notes)

DAVID

RETURN OF THE (BIG)MACK

"Ok, so for the price of this burger, I want to take one bite and open my eyes wide like damn, this is banging! It's just a burger. Kind of bland for me. The BUNZZ are flat and only a little toasted.

Mina : Yeah its basically yeast and sesame seeds and air.

David : It's just a regular burger. Should have been amazing for how much we're paying for it. Fries, I'm not impressed with. Not salty enough. They are soggy; not crispy enough.

Bang for the buck; not worth it.

I give it a 1. I'm a little disappointed. If you're gonna charge me 70 cedis for a burger, it better be good.

LIKE TO GET TO KNOW YOU WELL DONE

It messy. Yup. Your burger's really wack. It's flavourless. It's like there's nothing to it. I'm hungry and I'm not really killing this thing the way I should be. I take a bite, put it down and a minute later take another one. That says a lot, right? You know if I'm hungry, I'd kill it.

Mina : Yah. Umm but why so hungry? Did you eat your lasagna?

David: I did. But that was lunch. I'm a man, Mina. I get hungry quickly!

Mina : Noted.

Yeah a 1 for me. Would give it a half if I could.

MINA

LIKE TO GET TO KNOW YOU WELL DONE

*takes 3 bites* Ugh. WHERE IS THE FLAVOUR? I taste nothing! But how is this possible? There's bacon on here! At least the bacon should come through! I'm dipping into some ketchup because I need flavour from SOMEWHERE! The meat is cooked well. Maybe just not seasoned enough? The bun is okay. Lightly toasted, soft.

Onion Rings are just blah for me, but then again, I'm not an onion ring girl. I mean they aren't soggy or anything, but again, ketchup was needed to give me something more.

A 1 from me.

RETURN OF THE (BIG) MACK

I like this way better than mine. The cheese flavour really comes through for me and so do the pickles! There is such a difference between mine and David's. The bun though (I REFUSE to say BUNZZ) is really flat, which is weird, because it looked decently plump when it arrived...and its not like we have to squeeze the burger in our mouthes...it's lacking in size too. I like the flavour on the patty, however. I think I'm going to give this a 2!