Jude

I AM THE SPOILER QUEEN

Why is this? I'm basically a massive nerd/speed reader/obsessive watcher of books, movies and TV shows with a crazy good memory for crap like pop culture. I can read an entire book in under two hours, I can focus on reading while watching a TV show, I take public transport, I don't have kids and I like being indoors, its a very potent combination. I'm also very honest and when I say terrible things like, "how did you feel when xxxxx happened?" Only to hear screams because the other person wasn't aware of what happened.

Recently at work several people stopped talking to me, a patient, his girlfriend and half of his friends because I knew too much about the Walking Dead. The Walking Dead is amazing by the way, you should watch it. If you haven't heard about it, its an amazing show about a group of survivors in a post apocalyptic world where zombies killed most of the population, Rick Grimes is not amazing but Daryl Dixon is.

I would rage quit Walking Dead if Daryl died

So one of the issues is that the TV show used to be very faithful to the original comic book series, but its since deviated from the original canon. Highlight the post to see my spoilers if you want. A lot of people haven't read the comic books before they started watching the TV show and of course that's where I stuff my foot in my mouth. I have read the books and I always slip up and tell people way too much. So that patient keeps refusing to talk to me in case I spoiler something by accident.

Knowledge is a power!

I told him that Lori and Judy, the baby are already dead in the comic as Woodbury attacks first.
His girlfriend thought she didn't mind. Then I told her too much about the comic book series and the death of a very popular character. She left in a daze and muttered something about having to think about it.
In the later comics, Glenn dies at the hand of a new villain.
His friend did the same. He hates the main character Rick Grimes and I told him about what happened and then he ran off saying, "I KNOW TOO MUCH."
Rick loses his hand.
One of the nurses at work discovered I was reading the same book as her, "The Twelve" by Justin Cronin, the sequel to the Passage, which I reviewed earlier. Same thing, as soon as I was talking to her, I asked, oh what are you up to? She said she was about 2/3 of the way through the book and I asked innocently, "oh are you up to the part," "No, no! Don't tell me!" She then told me where she was up to and it was about 5-6 chapters behind where I was. Awkward.

I don't mind spoilers, in fact I am terrible for them in that I'll be watching a movie and be reading the wikipedia article to find out what happens next. My Boyfriend has pinned me down before to prevent me reading it and finding out what happens next. I think its been a long time since I've even watched a movie without knowing most of the major plot points of the movie.

In any case, do reviews of places count as spoilers? Since you might already know what to expect when you go there for the first time? Anyway, for me, this isn't a spoiler, I went to Jude a long time ago was L., S., H., and Mr M for Megababe, they do fantastic burgers and cater a lot to the business crowd. I always order the same thing here, they have a week day set of of burgers, international flavoured rissoles/balls and fancy arse salads. Here is breakfast menu, lunch menu, Tapas Fridays menu, and Sunday menu.

The list of salads for the day, remember to say which one you want! Otherwise you just get garden salad.

The array!

Jude is very good for ordering, its one of the few places I've been to that has this fancy ordering system. Its a buzzer, it goes off when your food is ready and you can collect it from the front counter. In the mean time, you can find a place to sit, de-clutter the front of the ordering area and chill out. It probably frees up the staff a bit more. The only other place I can think of that has that ordering system in Brisbane is Sausage Stand which came from Sydney, where that stuff is everywhere.

You jump like crazy when you hear it go off

Its also located in a very pretty spot, a nice breezy part of Eagle Street Pier right beside the Coffee Club and Nagomi, downstairs from Sake and the Bavarian Bier Cafe. I like the seating arrangement for the most part but I dislike the bench outside those windows as there's only one way to get in and ten seats in a row. My other complaint is that stuff is hidden in weird spots, the cutlery is behind you, the napkins and ordering spot are in front, the free aioli is beside the pick up zone. Stuffs cray.

SCARE THEM INTO LINE. Them being the arrays of chairs.

Anyway, I always buy the same thing over and over again. This place makes the best cheese burgers in town, they are amazing. The beef pattie is huge, almost as tall as the bun itself and its hard to get your mouth around the entire burger cause of how tall it is. Its a gloriously flavoursome mishmash of beef mince, carrots, bread crumbs and who knows what else, its a very substantial pattie. Nothing else comes close, this is the best goddamn burger in Brisbane.

I chose a Caesar salad and the side of chips too. Mistake, the burger is beyond jumbo and I always fail miserably to finish all of it.

Huge burger, can't eat it all

The burger up close

My Boyfriend picked up the chicken satay burger, a minced chicken pattie with a fragrant authentic satay smell, as if it was shoved into the pattie itself. He also picked up the potato salad and a side of chips as well. He really liked it and didn't let me eat it after my first taste.

The chicken satay burger on its bed of chips!

But with that being said, neither of us finished our burgers, salad or chips. I barely finished my burger, ate a soft boiled egg, and about half my chips. He ate all his salad, chips and half his burger. We've been here three times, you'd think we'd learn by now.

Fail.

Fail.

Fail.

Jude
Atmosphere: 8, nice breezy spot with mostly good seating.
Service: 5, get in, get your buzzer, get your food when it goes off. I find the servers often forget to ask what salad you want though, why offer a choice if you just get a default garden?
Food: 8, fantastic and huge proportions. Its fantastic.