Sizzler made a welcome return to Australia recently, but some patrons were left disappointed when the discontinued franchise brought back a fan-favourite dish.
After the resounding success of the one-night pop-up store in Brisbane earlier this month, KIIS 97.3’s Robin & Kip attempted to recreate its iconic cheesy toast.
Hosts Robin Bailey and Kip Wightman teamed up with The Coffee Club to launch a pop-up selling the savoury treat, but TikTok users were not impressed with the result.
The Sizzler Australia social media account shared videos to its page last week promoting the limited-time cheesy toast comeback.
But followers flocked to the comments of the post to share their disappointment in the dish, which they claimed was nothing like the original.
‘It doesn’t taste the same. Rushed there this morning only to be very disappointed,’ one person wrote.
Another said, ‘Except it’s nothing like Sizzler toast,’ while someone else added: ‘My cheese toast wasn’t cheesy.’
‘Was very excited and got some yesterday. Sadly I was very disappointed. Was pretty much just buttered toast. Didn’t even taste like it had cheese on it. So sad,’ one said.
Sizzler made a welcome return to Australia recently, but some patrons were left disappointed when the discontinued franchise brought back a fan-favourite dish
After the resounding success of the one-night pop-up store in Brisbane earlier this month, KIIS 97.3’s Robin & Kip attempted to recreate its iconic cheesy toast
Yet another commented: ‘Yo so I had Sizzler cheese toast from The Coffee Club today and yeah no it wasn’t the same.’
Daily Mail Australia has reached out to The Coffee Club for comment.
Beloved all-you-can eat restaurant Sizzler made a long-awaited comeback and reopened for one night only recently, four years after its last store closed its doors.
Hosts Robin Bailey and Kip Wightman teamed up with The Coffee Club to launch a pop-up selling the savory treat, but TikTok users were not impressed with the result
‘It doesn’t taste the same. Rushed there this morning only to be very disappointed,’ one person wrote
Former staff donned their uniforms and served up iconic dishes from the restaurant’s heyday at a pop-up in Brisbane earlier this month.
The long-time cultural icon shut up shop permanently in 2020, calling time after dishing up cheese toasts, grilled steaks and salads for three decades.
Since then, Sizzler fans have tried to recreate some of the popular menu items or settled for dupes of the cult cheese toast, which have gone viral on social media.
Fritzenberger, a popular eatery in Brisbane, also obtained a genuine Sizzler cheese toast machine, and now serves this iconic item to customers.
