Physiol Eatery and Cafe, University of Queensland, St Lucia

I have recently discovered that Physiol have been offering bacon and egg brioches.  As a fan of bacon and egg rolls, I was interested in trying this dish, so last Monday I did just that.  I got my bacon and egg brioche and as I applied my sachet of barbecue sauce I thought that it looked pretty good.  However, when I bit into it I noticed a familiar, yet completely unwelcome taste:  onion, an overused food that does the opposite of enhancing flavour.  I pulled my brioche apart and to my horror discovered that the bottom bun was coated with what appeared to be some sort of pasta sauce containing onion.  This annoyed me greatly.  I have never heard of a bacon and egg roll, brioche or wrap containing such a sauce and therefore had no way of anticipating such an unpleasant surprise.  This is really one of my pet peeves with eateries in general.  If an establishment's take on a dish differs from the norm, it is something that they should inform their patrons of.  If the bacon and egg brioche was advertised as coming with pasta sauce (or whatever that sauce was), I might have asked if it had contained onion and therefore have avoided this unpleasantness all together.  Frustrated, I did my best at removing all of the onion and tried to salvage the brioche.  This is something that I loathe doing for two reasons.  First, onions are insidious.  You can try to remove them from your dish, but often fail and you discover more onions.  Second, even if you do succeed in removing all of the onion, you can never be sure of that and each bite has you questioning if you're going to get an unpleasant flavour.  This almost ruins the experience.  Onions aside, the brioche was not the greatest quality and neither was the bacon nor the egg.  However, I love proper bacon and egg rolls, and even a lower quality bacon and egg roll is still satisfying.  The main problem, once the onions were removed was that the bacon and egg roll was now seasoned with both barbecue and pasta sauce, which really did not complement each other well.  In conclusion, if this brioche did not have this appalling pasta sauce on it, I could have made Physiol's bacon and egg brioche a usual tea break snack.  More's the pity.