Favourite British Meal?

[ste bed]

last time i had a good chinese it cost about £230 for 4 of us that was starter main and a few bottles of wine and a couple of beers. depends where you go i prefer going out into the country side shropshire/yorkshire dales/pendle you can call in a nice country pub and get a good meal for £20 easy. then i have been to yang sing (chinese) in manchester and its cost a few hundred. gordon ramsey said on tv not to long ago the average ticket at 1 of his restaurants is about £80 per person.

[poolqjunkie]

Sadly everything in London is expensive. I was down there recently and paid £5.20 for a pint of lager! Its £2.30 where i live....just 60 miles away from the "smoke".

You must be very thirsty to pay more than double

[ste bed]

Sadly everything in London is expensive. I was down there recently and paid £5.20 for a pint of lager! Its £2.30 where i live....just 60 miles away from the "smoke".

when i go to away matches you can pay £8/9 for a gin and tonic in london £5 for a pint. in wigan its around 3.50 for a double g&t and £2 for a pint in manchester your talking £4 a pint easy.

[poolqjunkie]

Being so much more expensive, does that mean the food and drink are better than other parts of the UK in general?
Or is it just because everthing in London is expenisve and the cost of running a business there is just much higher?

[poolqjunkie]

last time i had a good chinese it cost about £230 for 4 of us that was starter main and a few bottles of wine and a couple of beers. depends where you go i prefer going out into the country side shropshire/yorkshire dales/pendle you can call in a nice country pub and get a good meal for £20 easy. then i have been to yang sing (chinese) in manchester and its cost a few hundred. gordon ramsey said on tv not to long ago the average ticket at 1 of his restaurants is about £80 per person.

Chinese food for 4 people is probably under $150 (about 100 GBP)--or may be a bit under--for very good food with big portions and left over to take home here in Canada, unless you go for very expensive items like shark fins soup, and peking ducks and crazy things like that. Usually, I consider Chinese food really good value for the money.

But if you go to a fine dinning restaurant (like a very nice French restaurant)here in Canada, say, two people, 3 courses, with a bottle of wine (just the regular stuff) will probably run about $250 (plus15% -20% tip). If you like to have a few drinks before and after, then probably $350, which is about 230 GBP.

I once went to this place called Picasso in Vegas. It was about $500 USD per person, not including drinks or tips... There were 3 of us and the bill was over $2500 USD (we had a few drinks). Tips was $500 USD believe it or not. Luckily I was not the one paying Most expensive dinner I have ever had. I think it was insane.

[Acrowot]

I could take you to a pub with decent food and would cost around £8 - £10, plus your ale.

The best fish and chips in England are about three hundred yards from my house and you can get what they call a mini and it costs £3.40p, whether you eat it in or take it out, and is more than I can eat.
:snooker:

[poolqjunkie]

I could take you to a pub with decent food and would cost around £8 - £10, plus your ale.

The best fish and chips in England are about three hundred yards from my house and you can get what they call a mini and it costs £3.40p, whether you eat it in or take it out, and is more than I can eat.
:snooker:

Fish and chips is cool, I love it.
It is around $8-10 for a single order here. Which is about 5-6GBP.
But it depends on your choice of fish, Halibut is the most expensive.
So, a "mini" is more than you can eat by yourself? That sounds like a really good deal.
When I go to the Uk I will definitely try the fish and chips and the full breakfast and the shepard pie..

[Ekphantos]

I watched a documentary about British cuisine a while ago and they claimed that the quality and diversity suffered a lot as a result of WWII with its import stops and food rationing.
That would at least explain one thing that has puzzled me for quite a while: whenever you read British novels from the late 19th early 20th century, the food mentioned sounds really nice with all the different pies and various meat dishes etc. In a lot of the more modern British novels on the other hand they seem to eat a lot of junk food. In German/Austrian novels from the same period the food is rather similar to what you have now, not every single dish of course, there are more Italian influcence nowadays for instance, but the overall style. Still doesn't explain why continental cuisine shouldn't have suffered as much as British cuisine of course.

These are just things I got from books though, I can't really comment on the quality of British food now since I don't have that much experience.

[Kathrin]

gordon ramsey said on tv not to long ago the average ticket at 1 of his restaurants is about £80 per person.

been to a gordon ramsay last year. food was good, waiter nice, view amazing. But I don´t think it was 80 quid p.p., think it was less (3 course menu plus coffee and drinks). But my favourite restaurant in London is called "Trattoria Da Aldo" in Soho. Small and cozy, lots of stuff at the walls, true italian waiters and really good food. The fact that there´s no pizza on the menu says it all imo.

[totlxtc]

When I go to the Uk I will definitely try the fish and chips

Best to go to a seaside port or resort. I go to Swanage in Dorset, South England few times a year and the fish is caught that day, then battered and fried and served. Nothing beats fish and chips by the sea in a paper wrap and a wooden fork

[dean0]

No Sunday Roast?!?! - Ok Beef and yorkshires is half way there

The greatest dinner of all time!

I like all of them apart from CollyflowerCheese!

Apart from that all those dishes are sublime

[Acrowot]

Dan, whenever I have worked inland, the fish and chips have been terrible, nothing like we have here.

I have been to Germany many times and the food there is nothing special, so I do not know why the Brits have such a bad name. The Dutch food that I have had, has been quite ok.

I was in hospital in France in 2004 and if that is anything to go by, the food was crap. But, saying that, there was a supermarket almost next door and the food there was fabulous and the cakes and sweets were out of this world -- yummy. You have never seen such a display of cakes and sweets. Or should I say, I have never seen such a display.
:snooker:

[Kathrin]

I have been to Germany many times and the food there is nothing special, the Dutch food that I have had, has been quite ok

What have you eaten?

[ADR147]

How much is a decent 3 course dinner with a bottle of regular wine in big cities in the UK (I mean something avergae at a decent place with good food, good service and good envirnoment but not crazy expensive)?
I heard that the food is very expensive in cities like London.
I think this might be why people think the food is bad because the tourists go eat at the very cheap places and the food are awful there...
May be...just a guess?

here if i go out to dinner the bill for 2 will be somewhere between £50-£100 and i eat well!

[ADR147]

been to a gordon ramsay last year. food was good, waiter nice, view amazing. But I don´t think it was 80 quid p.p., think it was less (3 course menu plus coffee and drinks). But my favourite restaurant in London is called "Trattoria Da Aldo" in Soho. Small and cozy, lots of stuff at the walls, true italian waiters and really good food. The fact that there´s no pizza on the menu says it all imo.

i know this place superb and very cheap - same idea in the north is francesca's in newcastle.