The Hungry Caterpillar Whitehaven

So salty couldn't eat it unfortunately
Jul 19th, 2022

Best takeaway restaurant in town for lunchtime meals and with healthy options.. Will buy from here again.
Jul 6th, 2021

OK. So this is going to be a truthful critique of the Hungry Caterpillar. I'm going to start with the down sides. I know the Hungry Caterpillar feeds marathon runners 365 days a year and that it is healthy in its approach to nutrition - not a thing I'm automatically attracted to, preferring anything that isn't actually good for me - but I figured a roast is a roast and if it's good it's good from any provenance. So, these things stood out vision-wise, things which should have had my chops slathering down my bib on contact: visually, the roast was anaemic-looking and colour-drained; the veg was good in principle, mashed root swede and turnip a little watery, shell-off peas a little hard, string beans which could have shined in their youth but boiling water had put paid to that. I ordered cauliflower cheese to get the full gamut but this was undercooked on the side of raw, watery and lacked visible cheese topping, the roasters were a little dry and the Yorkie had given up the ghost, looking quite like one. On the plus side, this is the best meat I've come across in a roast jamboree, it was tender, lean, well-cooked and had flavour; if this is free range let's get free, it really was tasty pork without being fibrous or tasteless - a true eye-opener. The spuds, although dry, had their hearts in the right place, cooked I think without oil, needing a pick-up but really nice rosemary seasoning on them. The mash was chunky - I like to get my chops round a scoop of mash rather than drink it like a milkshake - but it needed a little butter or cream to raise it from just being crushed potatoes. The gravy was nice and authentic, maybe a little thicker to help the spuds out. Healthy - or not, perhaps, in its excess water content and grey-green bean skins - but I need to bag my roast lunch from the bush and drag it home kicking and screaming before it gets the apple sauce and this, accompaniments-wise, had gone off the boil before the porker sensed danger. What was lost in salt, which I missed in this roast, could have been made up for with strong unexpected veg flavours. I say cool it on the veg and be more tender, they won't just do it by meeting water, give the spuds their appearance justification - they looked good - address the lifeless Yorkie and keep the meat exactly where it is, at the top of the table. Good going, Hungrys, but with a little deliberation you could pull off a natural, healthy AND rumbunctiously tasty huntsman's Sunday platter. NB The price and value was exceptional so step it up.
Feb 1st, 2023