Meet 4 Meat

Beef Wellingtons are seen as posh, upper crust cuisine and rightfully so, but @meet_4_meat have been whipping wellies out of a coffeeshop since 2018. There aren’t that many individual portioned beef wellies in Singapore, and Meet4Meat is possibly the most affordable one at twenty eight dollars flat. Simply served with a baked potato and some mixed leaves, the pressure is on the Wellington to shine.⠀
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Meet4Meat’s Wellington is wonderfully delicious, and even though it was lacking the customary sauce you’d expect with a Beef Wellington, it certainly wasn’t lacking when it came to flavour. Everything from the 180 grams of tenderloin to the puff pastry was superbly salted, and your tastebuds will certainly be plenty pleased. Even the baked potato was stupendously sumptuous thanks to the inclusion of a generous pat of compound butter. I suspect it was a paprika infused compound butter, as it had a little bit of heat & smokiness to really jazz up the remarkably roasted spud. ⠀
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However, the cross section of the tenderloin revealed that it was alarmingly close to medium well instead of medium rare which is the Meet4Meat default. It had the grey band that indicated too much time spent on the grill, and it could be considered unevenly cooked as Wellingtons are supposed to be finished at their desired doneness in the oven. The pastry shell was also sadly soggy at the bottom, as the exquisite mushroom duxelles was still too moist for the puff pastry. It definitely required extra time in the pan to render out even more moisture.⠀
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To be fair to Meet4Meat, their Beef Wellington is aptly ambrosial, it’s just that they tripped up when it came to the overall composition. Still, I hold out hope that it was just a lone, lamentable lapse in standards, and I believe it will be even more excellent on my return visit.