It was time for the monthly team lunch again and one member of the team who has been hankering on about Porky's for ages was assuaged by the rest of us with an agreement to visit the newly opened Bankside restaurant. Table booked for 10 (that is also the only way you can make a reservation) we arrived to find the cavernous interior vacuous, although it didn’t stay that way for long. We sat down and perused the already online-consulted menu.
With a name like Porky’s it was never going to be up for debate what the star of the show would be. The many variants of pulled pork, the ribs of the burgers that come with pulled pork? However, they do also do salads, the burgers are beef and they have the odd vegetarian option thrown in (a salad or bean burger). So, a bean burger it was going to be for me. As we went round the table, everyone order something slightly different. The last to order was my colleague who was the great Porky’s enthusiast. Much to all our amusement and consternation he ordered the bean burger!
Many sighs of exasperation and roll of eyes later, it was enquired as to why he wanted to come there, he just wanted to try it and doesn’t eat much meat normally (this is true). Luckily for him, he did get to sample some of the ‘tips’ from another colleague’s pork ribs and tips, which he said were meat-ful. Others enjoyed their large burgers and pulled pork with a bap. Portion sizes were vast.
My burger was fine. It was a solid bean burger, I added cheese to fine and the fries were very good. So in essence, if you come here with a bunch of carnivores there will still be something acceptable for you to eat. However for me as a vegetarian, I found the smell of the pork that permeated the whole building slightly off-putting. Probably more one for the meat eaters.
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