Greek Sausage

I was at the Designer Outlet East Midlands charging my car and I had time for some dinner.  There is a food court with a choice of options about what to eat. I was drawn to Kouzina.

food outlet

I have watched with interest the increase in Greek style fast food outlets. There have been Greek (and Turkish) fast food joints for decades, but what we have seen over recent years are Green style outlets in shopping centres, food courts and places like the Designer Outlet East Midlands.

There was a lot of choice on the menu, more about presentation than anything else. You could order wraps, pittas, salad bowls, boxes, as well as additional sides.

They had a special offer on the box, so I went with the Greek sausage box. This took a while to arrive as they had to cook some fresh sausage for me. I was quite happy with that, I also needed to kill time whilst the car was charging. The box arrived. In there was two sausages, chips, pitta bread, greek salad and a pot of hummus.

box containing sausage and greek salad, chips and pitta bread

The sausage was nice, but nowhere near the level of tasty sausage I once had at The Real Greek. I was though pleased it had been cooked to order just for me. I enjoyed the rest of the box as well. The salad was nice, the hummus was good and I did like the addition of the bread as well.

Overall a nice box of food.

Yasai yaki soba once more, with a mushroom hirata bun

When I get to Wagamama, part of me says, try something new, another part of me says, I like the yasai yaki soba, which is mushrooms,  soba noodles cooked with egg, peppers, beansprouts, onion, pickled ginger, crispy fried onions and sesame seeds.  

I was at the Designer Outlet East Midlands charging my car and I had time for some lunch.  There is a food court, but Wagamama are one of the few places with table service. I like yasai yaki soba and as well as been very tasty, is one of the cheaper items on the menu. This was lunch, not dinner, so wasn’t wanting to spend lots of money. I decided I would have this and some mushroom bao, another dish I regularly order – it helped that I had a free side from the soul club app.

Though I didn’t think the place was that busy, it took a while for my food to arrive. This was a nice plate of food. There are contrasting textures and flavours within the dish. I like the addition of the crispy onions and pickled ginger. I always think the dish could have more mushrooms, but I am resigned that this is a noodle dish with mushrooms, and not a mushroom dish with noodles.

Yasai yaki soba

Alongside the tasty yasai yaki soba I also had a side dish of mushroom hirata buns. I enjoyed these buns, the contrasting textures of the bao bun, the panko aubergine and the mushrooms.

mushroom bao

Overall it was a really nice meal and I enjoyed it all.