Venue: The Rising Sun Hotel
Date: 28/4/13
Today the Burger Friday Fellows ventured to
the inner Melbourne suburb of Richmond to visit the Rising Sun Hotel. Whilst
Richmond may have plenty of pubs, from the very snazzy gastro pubs through to
the old traditional styles, the Rising Sun Hotel (or the Riser as the locals
call it) is what some nowadays might politely call "unique".
Located on the corner of Burnley and Swan
Streets, the Riser is a quintessential blokes pub, nothing fancy, but just chock
full of all the honest parts of a good old
fashioned local. The food is strictly old school pub classics, reasonably
priced and set out in a comfortable dining room, replete with TV’s covering all
sports. And it may be the only place in Melbourne where you can still play Big Buck Hunter. Yes, that is the kind of unique we are talking about.
That almighty of combinations of sport,
beer and food is exactly what brought the Fellows to the
Riser. With the UFC Middleweight title fight of Jon Bones Jones v Chael Sonnen
on the TV’s, the Fellows were able to indulge in all three elements .
After more trash was thrown around pre
fight than you would find at a garbage tip, the fight disappointingly ended in
little more than a yelper with Bones Jones easily completing his title defence
inside the first round. Fortunately our stomachs were more satisfied with the
burger than the preceding “ground and pound” of the UFC fight card.
The burger sampled today was the Riser
burger. Coming in at a very reasonable $15 with chips, the Riser is a burger
with the lot, comprising a generous house made burger, crispy bacon, fried egg,
cos lettuce, tomato, tasty cheese, and topped off with the triply whammy sauce
trio of onion jam, aioli and bbq sauce on a soft bun.
The ménage a trois of sauces was a massive
tick, as was the handmade meat pattie which was cooked perfectly with just
enough juiciness. Also worth giving special mention was the inclusion of tasty
cheese in the burger, which I personally think is underrated . Whilst gruyere often
gets all the kudos, tasty cheese just continues to perform week in week out and
has done so for decades, not unlike the way Dustin Fletcher goes about it.
We have discussed it on a few previous
occasions on Burger Friday but its worth reiterating that if you are going to
name a meal after the venue, it should be symbolic of the venue itself. And that
was certainly achieved here. The Riser is all about just sticking to a tried and true formula of giving the punters what they
want. While it won’t be pushing any culinary boundaries, the Riser burger is
tasty, satisfying and honest.
In light of the above, I will dub this
burger the Roy “Big Country” Nelson. Big Country is an MMA fighter who despite
looking like he would have the athleticism of an overweight truckdriver, he is
an honest fighter who has a habit for delivering some big old classic hits, including
the knockout of the fight card whilst we were at the Riser. Similarly, the
Riser despite its looks it just delivers good old pub classic hits and its
burger is certainly one of them.
If you are ever looking for a pub that
shows sport, you can have a bet, a beer and a feed, then the Riser fits the
bill.
Burger
Friday Rating: 37/50
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