Is this £ 12 toastie really the best collection meals in the UK? We have tried the most popular order of Deliveroo to see if it is worth the hype

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Few meals are just as universally satisfactory as a good Sarnie – but would you pay for £ 12 for one?

It seems that the answer is overwhelming, yes, for many British – who voted a trendy toastie seller as the independent restaurant of the year UK & Ireland at the Deliveroo Awards.

The winners of the annual awards of the food delivery platform were announced last week, based on 160,000 votes from customers and the verdict of a jury; Founder Will Shu, food critic Jimi Famurewa and Tilly Ramsay.

Taking the crown for one of the categories was Crunch – a viral foodie spot with locations in London‘S Soho and Spitalfields Market.

The Brioche Bread pop-up store is particularly popular for its £ 12 Patty Melt and promises a filling of ‘truffle livestock speeches, red leicester cheese, crispy onion marmelade and black truffle mayonnaise’.

I was cynical about my approach to the stall in Eastern, the feeling that the aim in general will end in me with eating a glorified hamburger without the soft sandwich.

Moreover, I hesitated about the structural solidity of framing your brand around crispy slices of toast, which could easily fall apart, moist.

Decisive to also taste vegetarian options for the less carnival, I have chosen to test their £ 12 Buffalo Cauliflower Sandwich, with ‘fried flowers, Ranch Coleslaw, butter-buffalo sauce and a rich Parmesan room’.

At the first bites of both, I was quickly humiliated by how incredibly well made a toastie could be – and deeply bewildered by how someone could reach such witchcraft.

It was about 15 minutes after I bought the sandwiches that I could actually sit and eat, so they were also strictly subject to ‘delivery’ – conditions – and I was blown away by the (in the absence of a better word, crispy!).

Starting with the Patty Melt – a Saucy striving that packed two juicy, well -boiled meat pites and other decorations – I was ready for the impact of moistened bread.

Instead, the perfectly buttered brioche tasted as if it were just the toaster, while he was still resilient and was not dry at all.

The individual elements themselves all sang in harmony and never felt too overwhelming. And yet everything was tasty, from the fragrant truffle to the sweet onion jam.

It was far from a rise from the hamburger, but instead felt me ​​to do what all the hamburgers should do now, to tackle the consistent issue of moist bread in the filling.

I paid more than £ 15 for Overhyped, double stacked and beautifully decorated hamburgers in London; So £ 12 felt like a more than fair price for me not only the quality of the ingredients, but the craftsmanship presented.

Although the Patty Melt is really a bestseller for the brand (and the most popular dish on Deliveroo), they are also known for their creative vegetarian options.

In my cauliflower I stopped myself again for disappointment – this time not only the bread was in danger, but the frying could easily get too soft, covered with herbs, around an already soft vegetable.

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What is more, in contrast to being a token meatless option that is offered with many other suppliers (especially smaller, such as Crunch), it was not only one of the few offered, but was absolutely delicious in taste.

I noticed that I was torn in between going to the Patty -melt and back to the Sarnie cauliflower, both finding equally impressive.

More unbelievable for me is that the roses – they are ‘Marinated at night in the same buffalo butter and a set of herbs’ – usually part of a typical silly vegetables in themselves, were so full of taste.

I struggled to find a single error in the meal and would like to express the £ 24 again.

Deliveroo last week unveiled the best collection restaurants in the United Kingdom, which included High Street Bakery Gail together with Crunch, High Street Bakery.

Winners were divided into five different categories, including independent companies at both national and regional level – and a new category sponsored by Darts Sensation Luke Littler who discovered the best kebab of the nation.

Competing against Crunch in front of the Kroon, were restaurants that had already collected regional prices, including a Leeds Cake Shop and Bristolian Fast food chain.

Each was assessed by the panel on brand personality, food quality and value, packaging and presentation, customer reviews and loyalty, innovation and an extra step.

After crowning the International Restaurant of the Year for Greater London, Crunch fights against the other regional winners before he also won the national category.

The ‘experimental’ eatery, which was opened in 2022, gathered a cult supporter on social media, with the trendy bap-makers praised for their series of five star reviews and by judges ‘for creating a new era of game-changing Sandwiches and their anxiety approach’.

Regional categories were won by a mix of pizza, cake and salad sales points.

In Belfast, Health Food Restaurant and Burrito Bar, Seed, the independent restaurant of the year for Ireland.

Served Acai bowls, superfood salads, burritos and smoothies, health -conscious seed won the hearts of the Irish.

Scotland preferred pizza above salad, with the nation the pizza of Big Manny nominated as their winner. The eatery in Aberdeen serves a series of decadent cheese-like cakes and is famous for their unparalleled meat specials and 18-inch pizzas, only available per collection.

Bristol won on Hamburger and chips with the Oowee dinner of the city on North Street and won the area for its hamburgers, tasty dips and loaded dirty fries.

Get Baked, a cake shop and bakery in Leeds, took the crown home for Manchester and Leeds. The Eetcafe has a cult that follows online, especially for his Bertha Cake, a huge layered chocolate cake that was inspired by the Roald Dahl Tale Matilda.

Leeds was also the destination for the winner of the Luke Littler X Deliveroo Best Kebab Award, with the SQEW Shawarma Bar of the city that bite the title.

The Darts Prodigy on the shortlist Tenth ‘Nest approved’ locations, all went to a public mood with Sqew Shawarma Bar, who came from the top.

Sqew’s Khobez Kebab with chicken, salad and sauce was a remarkable mention.

Extra prizes were awarded to recognize other strengths of hospitality, including Deliveroos above and outside prizes.

Divisive High-Street Bakkerij, Gail’s, also had a heart of the community prize throughout the country, a victory that will undoubtedly be a surprise for those who have accused the chain of ‘gentrification’.

The bakery was in the heart of the fierce debate last year, because the local population at a number of locations, including Worthing and Wandworth, back -flipped against plans to build new points of sale on their high street.

Others in the category were the Einseal Sustainability Award, given to Bujo in Dublin, the Customer Obsession Award, who went to Birmingham in Birmingham, and the Rider Love Award to Thunderbirds, a chicken restaurant with different sales points in London.

The Icon Awards also showed the talents of British restaurant owners, with Naeem ASLAM, director of Aagrah Leeds who won the lifelong performance, and Rich Myers, founder of Get Baked Score The Game Award.

The Rising Star Award went to Enrico Pinna, co-founder of Ad Maiora, in Manchester.

The role model prize was awarded to Tim Vasilakis, founder of the Atheenian, with several locations in the United Kingdom, including in London, Bristol and Sheffield.

Reflecting in this year’s general winner of this year’s Deliveroo Awards, said Jimi Famurewa, Food Critic and Deliveroo Restaurant Awards Judge: ‘It is an honor to be a return judge for Deliveroos Uk & Ireland Restaurant Awards in the independent Restaurant was blown away from the passion and talent.

‘Every finalist brought something unique and delicious to the table, making the final decision incredibly difficult for us.

“Crunch from London, however, stood out among the fierce competition, with enormous creativity, fine technology at eateries and mindblowing taste that impressed all of us.”

Michael Medovnikov, co-founder of Crunch said: ‘From our modest beginning in a Shoreditch-Pub to winning Independent Restaurant of the Year for UK and Ireland with Deliveroo in just a few years of it is an absolutely surreal and incredible feeling.

We have poured our hearts in every sandwich that we have made for our customers, so this prize is for our great team and all customers who have supported us from the start of this wild journey. Thank you for delivering and everyone who voted for us to receive this great recognition! ‘