Groupon - Burger Edge Combo Part 3

Since July is nearly over and I hadn't used this July's voucher yet, I left home today without eating breakfast just so I could use up the voucher. Like the other times I went to the Melbourne Central one since that's the most convenient (links to the first and second visit).

This time I thought I would have a chicken burger for a change and checked out the menu online beforehand. But of course, the actual menu there is different to the online menu. I think they only had Plain and Simple, The Hula, Chicken Deluxe and one more which I can't quite remember but may have been Chilli Chick. I ordered the Plain and Simple, since they didn't have Crumbed Parma, which is the one I actually wanted.

Opted for lemonade this time for the drink.

Needed more aioli (only really noticed it in the last mouthful) and the chicken was kind of tough/dry.

I asked for no salt as always, but as always the chips were salted. They'll probably be salted next time too... I ate a few but didn't finish since they get saltier and salter as you continue eating...

Groupon - Burger Edge Combo Part 2

I have a 'one burger combo each month for a year' voucher from Groupon, as explained in me previous post about my previous visit. Since I've already posted about this place, I don't have anything to add, other than more complaints.

I went to the same store as last time (Melbourne Central) and I ordered Feel the Cheese again, with no salt and no pickles again.

The combo. Had Lemon and Lime this time instead of Pepsi Max.

Salted chips when I wanted them unsalted! I had two and topped eating. They were even saltier than last time. I was eating with a friend and she also commented that it was very salty.

This time, they even forgot about the pickles! Noticed them while I was eating and picked them out.

What I was left with. My friend ate the chips for me so that's why there's only a little left. Can't believe I have to keep going there every month. This was supposed to be a good deal, but I'm beginning to regret buying it. I'll see how things go next month.

The end.

Delivery Hero - Delhi Diner

Through OzBargain I find out about a $10 off Delivery Hero coupon code for new customers (still valid by the way, until September). I've ordered from Menulog and Eatnow before but never from Delivery Hero, and so with this coupon code, I decided to try it out. The other times I ordered delivery food I always had Italian (pizza and pasta) because the only other places available are Indian and my dad doesn't really like Indian. But we went to an Indian place a couple of months ago (using a voucher of course) and it was actually pretty nice. And since my dad's away right now, my mum and I decided to eat Indian.

There were about ten Indian places I could order from on Delivery Hero and from those I picked out the ones with $0-3 delivery fee and from those I looked at the price of the menus and decided on Delhi Diner in Epping. It was the only place with no delivery fee to my house and the dishes were also the cheapest compared to other places (although I can't properly compare price without comparing serving size). I knew absolutely nothing about this restaurant but decided to give it a go.

My order:

I realised straight after ordering that I forgot to go through Cash Rewards for the bonus 8% cashback. If anyone decides to order delivery food through Delivery Hero after reading this post, don't forget about Cash Rewards (also if ordering from Groupon, Livingsocial, Woolworths, Appliances Online etc).

I was given an estimated delivery time of 6:04pm but the delivery man was kinda late, more than twenty minutes I think. And I was starving! He just dropped off the plastic bag with the food then rushed off, to deliver more food I guess.

The plastic bag of food

The food laid out

The vegetarian tandoori platter, supposed to be three different vegetarian dishes combined but I don't know which is which. The thing that looks like a vegetarian patty (which might be the vegetable seekh) was apparently very salty (according to my mum that is, I didn't eat it because I'm not supposed to eat salty food). Also the roasted vegetables had lots of burnt edges but maybe that's just to do with the cooking method. Otherwise quite good. I haven't really eaten many varieties of cheese in my life but was pleasantly surprised by the cottage cheese. The most important thing, it's not salty! (My mum thought it was tofu when she first saw it, wouldn't believe me when I told her it was cheese)

Butter chicken on the left (apparently the most popular dishes at all Indian places), mutter paneer on the right. Both were very nice but I prefer the butter chicken. When I ordered the food I chose 'hot' for the butter chicken and 'medium' for the mutter paneer but they were about the same spiciness as each other and probably mild-to-medium. Could have been spicier.

Plain and garlic naan (there are bits of garlic stuck in the garlic naan but not much difference in taste, just more expensive). Just eating the naan made me almost full even before starting with the rice. Preferred what I ate last time at the other Indian place, which my bother said was naan but the menu said was roti. Maybe I'll try the roti next time since they have that too.

Overall, was satisfied with the food. My mum said it was much better than the Italian food we usually order, less oily. We both had too much to eat that night for dinner we both had the leftovers the next morning for breakfast and we have leftovers of those leftovers. Not bad for $30! Highly likely that I'll order from this place again since this place seems cheaper than all the other places.

Entertainment Book - Donut King BOGOF

I went shopping with my mum at the Uni Hill Factory Outlets today. After shopping I decided to buy the Donut King cinnamon donuts since I have an Entertainment Book voucher which allows me to get one free six-pack of donuts when another one is purchased. So that means I receive dozen donuts for $6.50 (I think that was what it cost). I thought they would be perfect for night snacks since I always eat something around 10-11 pm. Here is the screenshot:

The people working there seemed to have no clue about the deal so I had to explain it to them (even about tapping the redeem button). The girl who took the order took another girl to pack to donuts and that other girl seemed to be a newbie, still in training. I noticed when I received the box that the donuts weren't arranged neatly but couldn't really be bothered checking the contents on the spot. But maybe I should have... Because...

I only received eleven donuts!

I also noticed that the donuts were shaped very weirdly, oblongs rather than circles. Creates an interesting texture so the donut tastes slightly different depending on which part you're eating.

My verdict:
The taste is nothing special, just like any other cinnamon donut. And I'm annoyed that I didn't get my money's worth.

Groupon - All-day Breakfast or Lunch for Two @ Le Cirque Fine Foods

I bought this voucher from Groupon a long time ago but only got around to using it now because I'd bought a lot of other coupons that I had to use first because their earlier expiry dates. This voucher includes breakfast or lunch, a juice and a coffee each for two people at $25. I used up a coupon code for buying this voucher so I actually bought it for around $22, therefore $11 for each person.

I went with a friend to eat brunch/lunch there before watching Spy, the movie. There are two Le Cirque Fine Foods and this voucher was for the one at Spencer Street, inside the outlet shopping centre. I made a booking for 11am but we were about fifteen minutes late. Most of the tables were empty then, although they fill up while we were eating.

I forgot to take a photo or note of the menu so I can't remember the exact names of the dishes, but I ordered the big breakfast (the one where you choose your own sides), mocha and pineapple juice; my friend ordered pork ribs, hot chocolate and pineapple juice.

All our food. I only remembered to take photos after we'd already begun eating...

Sourdough, scrambled eggs, minute steak, tomatoes and hash browns. This was the first time ever eating one of these breakfast dishes so I didn't really know how I was supposed to go about eating them - eat them like a sandwich or all separately? I ended up just eating everything separately. Since I don't usually eat this kind of thing I don't really know how it compares to other places, but the serving was very large (especially the egg, just too much!). The scrambled eggs weren't very scrambled, they were in very large chunks. The steak was too tough. I liked the tomatoes and hash browns, but not exactly anything special.

The pork ribs. My friend seemed to like the pork but she said that there was too much flavour to everything and therefore not very balanced.

Mocha

Hot chocolate

I've been to Le Cirque Fine Foods before, also using vouchers and back then it was a group of six people. I'd ordered the burger then and it was quite nice but hard to eat because it was so big. A friend who ordered something with avocado said that the avocado tasted sour for some reason. Two people ordered mango juices but received something which tasted exactly like orange juice but the waitress claimed was mango juice.

Would I go back to this place? Probably only if I had another voucher.

Spy, on the other hand, was really funny and I enjoyed it.

Groupon - Burger Edge Combo

I bought this voucher from Groupon - $99 for a burger combo every month for a year with 300ml drink and chips at Burger Edge. I bought it with a discount coupon so ended up being $84.15, which amounts to $7 for each burger combo if you actually manage to use up the voucher each month.

I checked the menu online to choose what I wanted before I went to the Melbourne Central Burger Edge. I decided to get the mushroom one but it wasn't on the physical menu at MC, so instead opted for Feel the Cheese without pickles. Since it's a combo I also got a bottle of Pepsi Max and specifically asked for unsalted chips.

I stood to one side to wait for my food and it felt like it took ages, even though going by my watch it wasn't really (maybe about seven minutes). I noticed that everyone else had a receipt with a number on it and when their food was ready the number was called out. Because I ordered using a voucher I wasn't given a receipt. So of course when my "number" was called out by the counter lady there, I didn't know it was me and we kind of stared at each other for a while before she said, "It's you." Awkward. She could've just given it to me straight away, since I was standing right in front of her!

I quickly took my plate, found an empty table and sat down.

The 300ml bottle of Pepsi Max, Feel the Cheese burger and chips.

Closer up. The burger was nice enough but not exceptionally good, nothing extraordinary. Would I buy the burger at full price? Even at full price this particular burger cheaper than some other burgers at other places, but maybe those other places taste better. I don't think I'd buy at full price unless I had some kind of special reason and there's also a Grill'd at Melbourne Central too if I feel like eating more premium burgers.

The biggest fail was the chips. I mentioned that I ordered unsalted chips yet the chips were salted, a lot! I was in a hurry and couldn't be bothered to complain about it so I just ate them, though I didn't finish them. My lips were tingling for ages afterward. Other than the saltiness the chips were actually really good. 

So my verdict? For what I'm actually paying for this ($7) it's very good value. My experience this time wasn't exactly the best but I'll be eating at Burger Edge at least eleven more times so I'll see how things change in the future.

Entertainment Book - Grill'd BOGOF

After watching The Longest Ride at Hoyts Melbourne Central. My friend and I decided to eat at Grill'd using an Entertainment Book voucher.

We both ordered Simply Grill'd with cheese ($9.90+$1). The lady who took my order kept pressing strange things on my phone while trying to redeem the voucher and so handed my phone back a couple of time so that I could get back to the voucher page. We were only given one of the small envelopes with bottle-caps inside that they give you after ordering (for voting on which organisation you want to get funding), even though we were two people, maybe because we only paid the price of one burger.

I was only reminded to take these photos after we began eating so you can see the bite marks in the photo. The bun was nice and crispy with lots of lettuce (although very cold which was a little annoying). The meat tasted nice but my friend mentioned it wasn't as juicy as the patty of the burger that we had back at the Highlander Bar. That's probably because the Highlander patty was thicker and cooked to around medium rather than well done (was a little pink inside).

I don't know how other people usually eat large burgers with the toothpicks/sticks stuck in the middle, but I think I did a good job today and I didn't have the fillings falling out everywhere. What I did was, I worked my way close to the toothpick, then moved and stuck it into the new middle, making sure that everything is stacked neatly. I did that a couple of times and this time left behind the cleanest plate compared to the last two times I ate at Grill'd.

I used the voucher from the 2014/2015 book but the same voucher is in the 2015/2016 book as well, if you're interested in purchasing one. I ordered mine from the Royal Children's because I wanted to support them. You can also search for another charity or organisation that you want to support who sells the books.