There is no T…

Cause T was shut until November the 23rd.

There will be a T at some point before Z. I want to go to Thai wi-rat dammit.

On Saturday there was a B, I love Brat Haus, and an O, thank you to the lovely people who took me to Original Dave’s BBQ.

There are no little titles for this except the following warning;

For any Vegans or Vegetarians reading this, turn away now…

I ate a lot of meat on Saturday.

A lot, so this is going to be a short-ish one.

So Saturday technically started with a C. Cypher Cafe in Sandgate was my first food stop, before visiting my Aunty. It’s a tiny cafe next to Sandgate station, and if you are hungry it’s worth a pop in. I had the breakfast turkish bread and a short black. The coffee was good and the sandwich was good. They were not unique though. There are a number of cafes in Sandgate you could easily stop at and grab breakfast. What made this place semi-unique is that it is aimed at families. This is a good place to stop for five minutes if you have kids and are in Sandgate. It’s comfy, friendly and there is clearly a play area. Even the guy who looked like a regular, I think we can spot our own (being a regular of a different coffee shop), was pretty friendly.

I’m not saying it is worth a day trip, but if you are in Sandgate, drop in. We need to support more places like this.

Brat Haus was next, and the real beginning of the meatapalooza. My favourite thing from Brat Haus is the large plate of sausages. Four wursts cut into pieces with rot kohl/sauerkraut and fried onion (I prefer rot kohl). The plate is huge. The wurst is great, especially covered in curry ketchup. Brat Cave in Woolloongabba lets you pick, Brat Haus might if they weren’t busy but usually doesn’t. You get Cheese Kransky, Kransky, Bratwurst and Chicken Wurst (I think). I didn’t rush, as it was bucketing down outside, and slowly made my way through the whole plate.

I also discovered this comes in a medium size, which I think may be 2 sausages.

The day was topped off by Original Dave’s BBQ in West End.

Original Dave’s has a family feast, which had been preordered by  the bookee. It contained a rack of ribs, beef brisket, pulled pork, a piece of chicken and three sausages. We also got some buffalo suicide wings, some frickles and some loaded fries.

The buffalo suicide wings were good, not the hottest thing I have ever eaten but were well cooked. I am pretty sure they were flame grilled. The frickles, pickle fries, were good too, better than the ones at Johnny Rockets. I did not try the chili loaded fries, but from the sound of it, they were ok.

When the meat fest came out, the first thing I went for was the ribs. I love ribs. I don’t think I can eat them without getting sauce everywhere, and I am completely fine with that. The sauce was ok, but the ribs were good. The meat just slid off the bone. They weren’t too fatty. Good ribs.

The pulled pork was also good, in this case it was the sauce that made it stand out to the other pulled pork I have had. I can’t put my finger on why but the sauce they had went really well with pulled pork.

The beef brisket was the best beef brisket I think I have had. This is mostly due to the other beef briskets I have had being dry and hoping you wouldn’t notice if there was too much sauce. I noticed. This one was not dry. I have not eaten enough beef brisket to know if this is the best in Brisbane, what with me liking beef practically raw, but for now it is in my books.

The chicken, maryland style, was pretty good. I love this way of preparing chicken. My favourite chicken of all though comes from a place in Stones Corner, and it is really good when the staff there are fighting with each other, I don’t know why but it is. I say this, but I will eat almost any chicken from anywhere. Except one place if I can avoid it. Not a fan of KFC.

Finally the sausages. They tasted good, the texture was a bit weird though. Admittedly I had sausages earlier done in my favourite way, so I tried not to be too judgemental of these. They were not wurst, so I was trying no to compare them to it. The texture reminded me of the times I boiled the sausages first before I fried them. If you do it wrong, you get a kind of dry sausage that tends to crumble a bit. Which is what these were like. The taste was good though, apparently one was a little spicy.

After all this, or part of all this as there were four of us, I was a touch full and promptly went home to digest.

To wrap up, next time I am making sure I have more veges than cabbage and potato. Some people don’t mind that, but I like all food.

Eat well everyone, and U will be in 2 weeks. I am sure I will have something to write about next week though.