Eating Out-Is It Getting To Expensive Or Is There Still Value Out There

[gollob]

I ate out on Tuesday and on the menu for starters was A Scotch Egg for £6.50. My local Morrison's sell 4 Scotch Eggs for £1.75.I used to eat out every Friday and a Coke drink varied from £1.00 to £2.85 for a 330 glass yet I can buy 2 litre Coca Cola for £1.50 or even a supermarket brand for .60 pence for 2 litres.
I had a 16 oz Steak Pudding for £14,75 which after stripping away the pudding and the gravy perhaps there was 4 ounces of beef

[choux]

Sqad - don't ever change, I do need my daily smile :)

(Sqad aka Ebenezer appearing twice daily somewhere)

[vetuste_ennemi]

I like thar, Sqad. Reminds me of the Fawlty towers episode the Gourmet Dinner: No riff-raff.

[hc4361]

Carvery meals are huge money makers for the restaurants, I'm not keen as we eat a lot of roast dinners at home and I prefer to eat something a bit different when I eat out.

[spathiphyllum]

eating out for breakfast is my favourite

[AuntLydia]

Trouble is the standards of UK cooking are dire. If you go for cheap and cheerful you have a five page menu heated up by some spotty catering student served with sauce in sachets next to the 'play area' for chavvie kids. Go somewhere expensive and you get a teaspoon of food with some spit like foam and broccoli three ways and you are supposed to be impressed.
Mainland Europe and even North America are leaps ahead when it comes to decent real food at good prices. Even the motorway services in France are better than many restaurants in the UK.

[Buenchico]

Sqad = Ebenezer Scrooge? I think not!

Scrooge didn't want to spend money on anything, whereas Sqad is happy to splash out loads - as long it gets him away from the hoi polloi.

Not so much this
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as this, surely?
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;-)

[spathiphyllum]

AL go wagamumas :P

[New Judge]

"I ate out on Tuesday and on the menu for starters was A Scotch Egg for £6.50. My local Morrison's sell 4 Scotch Eggs for £1.75."

My suggestion is to pop down to Morrison's and buy four. Then you and your three fellow diners can pop back to the restaurant and ask them if you could sit in there and eat them. Find out first how much they would like you to contribute to their rent, rates, heating, lighting, cleaning, maintenance, water rates, staff costs (including pay, employers' NI contributions, pension contributions, sick pay and holiday pay) and a few more things besides.

[choux]

tbf, Sqad didn't indicate that he was paying ...


:D

[pastafreak]

I've only had carvery meals a few times, and while they may be good value I find them to be all the same. Bland and often over cooked.
When I eat out, I prefer food I'm not likely to make at home...tapas, sushi etc. I also prefer independent restaurants, never chains. Though I do like the Boston Tea Party for brunch.

[AuntLydia]

spath been there unimpressed except the kimchi was quite nice. Deep breath....I actually like Nandos for fast food but would only go on a school day.

[pastafreak]

Wagamamas is not very nice in comparison to a real sushi restaurant.

[AuntLydia]

We have a fantastic garden centre near us that does super food all home made. I often go to lunch with the ladies. Last time I had Prawn & Smoked salmon salad with at least 100 grams of salmon + 100 grms prawns and a plate full of mixed leaf salad for £4.50 - a really good value. Also I find farm shops often have good cafes with nice home made stuff.

[AuntLydia]

Wagamammas is not a sushi restaurant, its a Japanese noodle bar.

[pastafreak]

Yes but they seem to promote their sushi alot...at least the one here does. Besides, many sushi restaurants do more than sushi. Depending on where they are, they might not survive otherwise.

[choux]

Basically, we get what we pay for and everyone has a budget.

If you can afford to eat out then do so and enjoy it. Personal recommendations help when trying out new eateries. If you don't like the food or service tell the management before expressing yourself on social media. (Why people do that I have no idea.)

Even people with loads of kids are entitled to dine out.

I was coming back from a distant appointment last week and decided to pull in to a country pub as it was nearly 1300 hrs.

I asked for a table for one, was given a choice and was very well waited on. I opted for a roast turkey lunch with all the trimmings which was most enjoyable. The pub was quiet and I thoroughly enjoyed my time there. Fresh coffee to finish and charged £17.

Happy to go there again.

[New Judge]

"I actually like Nandos for fast food but would only go on a school day."

What is a "Nando"? Is it some sort of hamburger?

[vetuste_ennemi]

Nando's? I don't think NJ is a man ot the people.

Innit.

[Mamyalynne]

Have you got access to a search engine?;-)

[Canary42]

The implication that Restaurants are over-inflating prices for profiteering purposes is hardly borne out by the numbers who have gone bust over the last year or so.