Lehaha Grill
Somebody asked me what the search for the best burger was in aid of. I responded that Basotho deserved to know where there was a great burger. I added that there seemed to be a vacuum in the food/restaurant review business, so I was taking up the space as the Lingua Franca goes nowadays. The truth is, I also want a tourism angle on this series. I would like readers of this blog-wherever they may be-to be aware of the great offerings the Mountain Kingdom has.
With all of that said, last night we hit Lesotho Avanii's Lehaha grill. I was featuring my cousin Mphoto or “Beef” as he’s known in the streets, and my mate Khabele “Smokes” to his homies. They are two friends, but also, two brilliant minds. Entrepreneurs who are both involved in enterprises that ought to change the trajectory of the country... I digress. They two are burger lovers, and they were excited to extend the search for Lesotho best burger.
The Lehaha grill offers three different burgers. A beef burger, a chicken burger and a vegetarian burger (unbeknownst to us). We decided we would order all three burgers and share between the three of us. A solid plan I thought, but Beef wasn’t sold. He didn’t want his dining experience spoiled by something below par. So, Smokes and I ordered tow different things, the Maluti mountain Beef, and the holy cow burgers respectively. Beef ordered the same as me. The Maluti mountain Beef boasts a patty, cheese, bacon avocado (urgh!) Lettuce tomato and a sweet chilli sauce. While the Holy cow is made up of Halloumi cheese, butternut, mushroom, avocado (sies) and onion. The third burger option is chicken and has a name that involves chicken. All three names seemed to imply the contents of the burger. Imagine our surprise when the holy cow had no cow?! Oh, so holy cow, as in sacred cow?! Wow! Okay...
The Maluti mountain Beef was ordered sans avocado. I love myself too much to be eating a burger, or anything for that matter, with that mush! Anyhow, it was quite tasty. Any burger with cheese and bacon is going to be! The sweet chilli sauce let it down though. Between that and how easily the burger broke up I was left a little underwhelmed. The trusted side piece Corona was cold and paired wonderfully with the burger, as ever!
I shared a quarter of my burger with Smokes and he did the same. O thought the vegetarian option was quite good. I don’t care much for butternut, don’t like mushrooms and as previously expressed hold no affinity for mushroom yet as a combination held together by Halloumi, it seemed to work. Vegetarians like Bella ought to go check that option out.
I’m having so much fun penning this series.
