Garlic Bread at some's place in Waiuku

Waiuku Township
Franklin District
NZ


I was lucky enough to tag along (ok - invited actually) to a birthday party for a 14 year old princess and her large extended family, and urm there was an awful lot of home made food being prepared. Shamelessly everyone brought more and certainly the plentiful garlic bread came from a local supermarket - I saw the wrappers - but don't ask me which national chain supplied the goods.
The bread itself was a french baguette type cut horizontally and liberally spread with the garlic butter. Now there were actually two types and one of them was just divine.
It must have had something to do with the fact that it came more or less hot out of the oven and got served straight away thus the bread was still warm and moist, there was plenty of garlic flavour, and surprisingly enough a thin layer of baked soft melted cheese.
The whole fitted nicely together. Very nicely done.

Presentation	3 out of 5
Quantity	4 out of 5
Taste:	5 out of 5
Quality	5 out of 5
Overall score:	17 (out of poss 20)

Garlic Bread from Harewood Tavern

Harewood Tavern
333 Harewood Rd
Bishopdale
Christchurch

http://www.tavernharewood.co.nz/

Seeing it was Friday and urm - we needed a break so we decided to go to the Local tavern for a meal - after all no dishes beats eating at home any time. The place was packed and we were lucky to get a seat for two. Service was efficient and friendly enough, and we settled down to the meal with a glass of medicinal fruit juice.

Our Garlic bread soon arrived. It was luke warm - and more akin to a pizza. It was a flat 3 mm thick pancake shape - size of a decent plate. I cannot be sure but looking at the bottom I got the feeling that the base was pre-cooked. It was very generous topped with herbs and some cheese.
Indeed the cheese made the whole thing a bit oily. From Garlic - there was very little taste.
All in all this was a bit of a disappointment (the rest of the meal was ok-ish - again more plate then substance - but flavorsome enough)

Presentation	0 out of 5
Quantity	1 out of 5
Taste:	0 out of 5
Quality	1 out of 5
Overall score:	2 (out of poss 20)