Garlic Bread from Harringtons Bar in Belfast

808 Main North Road
Belfast
Christchurch
New Zealand


http://harringtonsbreweries.co.nz


Revisited 11 February 2014

We must be regulars there.  Apart from being the 4th time as an entry for garlic bread - we have been on many other occassions - just not eating garlic bread.  The menu must be good eh  :)

T H I S  time however we got a bit of a surprise!! Instead of the usual garlic bread that we are used to and affectionately call football-loaf  . . .

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which is a definite retro-step!! 

Top marks for the use of the plate again and stacking artistically the bread. Still not sure about the use of a paper napkin under the garlic bread.  However after this,  everything came to a grinding halt.
The "bread" itself obviously was a half sliced pita-bread, then buttered (with a lack of herbs) and then baked.  It was still warm-ish by the time it got to our table.   The texture was typical pita-bread - soft on the inside and also soft on the outside i.e. no crust ( a bit chewy). 
I was hoping for a little side dish of garlic butter as I tasted very little of the 'garlic' but that was not to be.  As a party of  5  and expecting the "football-loaf" - which would have been enough - this offering was never going to be enough - a pity that the staff did not tell us of the change,  we would have ordered two servings had we known.  So we give top marks for presentation and - well - little else

Presentation	4.5 out of 5
Quantity	1 out of 5
Taste:	1 out of 5
Quality	1 out of 5
Overall score:	7.5 (out of poss 20)

Garlic Bread from Etrusco's at the Savoy

Etrusco's at the Savoy

8 Moray Place
(The Savoy Building)
Dunedin Central
Dunedin City  

Ph:  03-477 3737

http://www.etrusco.co.nz/

www.garlic-bread-critique./garlic-bread-from-etruscos-at-savoy.html

You will see (if you click on the link above) that in October last year we had been there before.  Not that we had planned to be there this time, however due to some unforeseen circumstances we ended up in same place.  Excellent - this gives us time to compare last years efforts against this years.   Last year we gave it 9 out of 20 with a lot of improvement wanted.    This we partially got.  A slightly different bread - nice and hot - full of flavor and - yes color (herbs). The presentation is pretty much the same - nice clean warm porcelain plate and token knife.  However comparing images - there is a slice missing  compared to last year and two pieces of bread for two people was never going to be enough!
Given that the rest of the meals are larg-ish it is puzzling to understand the small nature of this plate's offering.  Still the bread was as said before nice and hot and the butter had melted and soaked right through - so that was nice.  A nice improvement in some respects

Presentation	2 out of 5
Quantity	1 out of 5
Taste:	3 out of 5
Quality	4 out of 5
Overall score:	10 (out of poss 20)