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Creamy Chipotle Fish McWrap at McDonald’s

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Creamy Chipotle Fish McWrap at McDonald's
Location: 1001 Islington Avenue, Etobicoke 
Website: https://www.mcdonalds.com/ca/en-ca.html

I’ve mentioned before that McWraps are easily the most boring thing on the McDonald’s menu.  So there’s a new McWrap.  It’s got chipotle in it.  Who cares?

But wait!  This one is available with either grilled chicken, crispy chicken, or… fish?  In a McWrap??  Well, that’s exciting (small print: it takes very little to get me excited.  This is not actually exciting).

Creamy Chipotle Fish McWrap at McDonald's

Here’s how McDonald’s describes this: “Made with crispy, flaky fish topped with creamy chipotle sauce, crispy tri-colour tortilla strips, shredded lettuce, sliced tomato and cucumbers. All wrapped in a soft white flour tortilla.”

This is definitely not the McWrap to change my mind about McWraps.  It’s very McWrap-y, which is to say it’s a bit dry and boring; it tastes like a perfunctory stab at “healthiness” from a chain that has no business being even remotely health-adjacent.

Creamy Chipotle Fish McWrap at McDonald's

The fish is interesting, but I guess there’s a reason why these types of wraps have chicken in them 99 percent of the time; it doesn’t quite work.  It’s not unpleasant, but it’s odd.  I missed the chicken (it didn’t help that the Filet-O-Fish patty had clearly been sitting out for some time; it was a bit dry).

Everything else is fine, with the veggies all being what you’d expect, and with the tortilla strips doing a decent job of adding some crunch.

The creamy chipotle sauce is the highlight.  It’s creamy, zesty, a little bit smoky, and actually has a mild spicy kick.  The wrap needed way more of it.  Give me a little tub of it so I can use it as a dip for fries.  It’s a really tasty sauce.

Surf ‘N Turf Burger at McDonald’s

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Surf 'N Turf Burger at McDonald's
Location: 1001 Islington Avenue, Etobicoke 
Website: https://www.mcdonalds.com/ca/en-ca.html

McDonald’s recently introduced a “Remix Menu,” featuring a few fun combinations of regular menu items.  Yes, this is all technically stuff you could have been ordering all along, but that would require either:

  • Ordering two separate items and then winding up with a bunch of extra bread, or
  • Trying to explain an unnecessarily complicated custom order to an overworked cashier who has no time for — or interest in — your nonsense.

I didn’t particularly want to do either of those things, so this promo is actually kind of exciting to me.

Surf 'N Turf Burger at McDonald's

The new menu consists of a burger/chicken combo, a Junior Chicken with a sweet chili sauce, an apple pie McFlurry, and the one I tried: the Surf ‘N Turf burger, which features all the stuff you’d normally find on a McDonald’s cheeseburger (cheese, ketchup, mustard, pickles, and little onions) with a Filet-O-Fish patty crammed in.

Surf 'N Turf Burger at McDonald's

It’s… fine?  It’s not offensive to eat, but it turns out there’s a reason the cheeseburger / fried fish combo isn’t a thing.  The two items don’t particularly complement each other.

McDonald’s beef isn’t super flavourful, so most of the taste here comes from the Filet-O-Fish patty.  But the texture of the burger is much more prominent.  So you’re basically eating a sandwich with a beef texture and a fish flavour.  It’s weird.  And again, it’s not gross, but I can’t see a scenario in which I’d ever want to order this again.