[Dining Review]

[crabapple]

Oh, that looks good! I am a sucker for a delicious pizza, as my associates well know. Pizza, Pepsi, some peeps, and three videotapes, that is a mildly entertaining evening right there.

[BookZombie]

A carvery is what you get in most pubs and hotels on sundays. It's a one stop buffet roast dinner. There are usually four or five meats to choose from which the chef carves for you. You go on to select your vegetables, yorkshire puddings etc. and add gravy then go down and eat.

Sounds yummy. I would like to try such a restaurant at one time or another.

[Diabolical]

Originally Posted by crabapple

Basically, yeah. I was hoping there would be subtle nuances to the preparation, though, peculiar to the variation, and there were.

i guess im confused to your reaction. I have fried fish probably once a week.

[Sistinas666]

Originally Posted by BookZombie

Sounds yummy. I would like to try such a restaurant at one time or another.

Me too!:D Beer and slabs of beef= heaven!

[Fearonsarms]

I went to Wagamamas once and never again-poor potions of noodles and veg-the salad I had was more generus but not worth the price at all. Really loved the Mogolian Barbecue that someone mentioned-highly recommend that cos when I went you could eat as much as you wanted for a cheap fixed price with plenty of fried veg. If I'm going to random restaurants I'll usually have a mushroom pizza or a veggie burger cos you can't usually go wrong with those.

[ferretchucker]

I can't believe you guys don't have carveries! They're common as anything over here. Although, come to think of it, how common are roast dinners in the US? This is a genuine question - I don't think I ever really see them on TV shows. The full shebang with chicken, roast potatoes, peas, carrots, yorkshire puddings, gravy, sage and onion stuffing, broccoli, brussel sprouts etc. ?

Same with Chippies in regards to how common they are. I can think of at least 7 in my town alone, and it's not a huge town.

I guess the chips are a bit different because they're a lot chunkier than fries. They tend to be a lot softer because they have more potato and less of a coating.


As for brown sauce, that stuff is the shiznit! I have it with most meals. I heard once that it's called steak sauce in America? It's a vegetable mix that's mildly spicy and has a somewhat pickled/fermented flavour.

[hueyisme]

New York pizza sounds great. Ive never been to New York but Ive heard great reviews about the pizza. I wish I had some now, as Mexican pizza sucks. In Mexico if you eat where the locals eat, Mexican food is the best food in the world. If you eat in the American resturants here, the food is the worst.

[Sistinas666]

Originally Posted by ferretchucker

I can't believe you guys don't have carveries! They're common as anything over here. Although, come to think of it, how common are roast dinners in the US? This is a genuine question - I don't think I ever really see them on TV shows. The full shebang with chicken, roast potatoes, peas, carrots, yorkshire puddings, gravy, sage and onion stuffing, broccoli, brussel sprouts etc. ?

Same with Chippies in regards to how common they are. I can think of at least 7 in my town alone, and it's not a huge town.

I guess the chips are a bit different because they're a lot chunkier than fries. They tend to be a lot softer because they have more potato and less of a coating.


As for brown sauce, that stuff is the shiznit! I have it with most meals. I heard once that it's called steak sauce in America? It's a vegetable mix that's mildly spicy and has a somewhat pickled/fermented flavour.

Roast beef dinners are a bit uncommon here at restraunts, mostly its always been a sunday dinner by the wife/mother/grandmother in my family. It usually consists of a beef roast with potatos, cabbage, carrots, and onions. There are also rolls, salad, and dessert. Tomorrow I am firing up my smoker and smoking a pork butt *insert joke here*. Probably will have baked beans, corn on the cob, and homemade coleslaw with it!(I can't wait as I have the munchies right now) :D




Also, that picture of fish and chips looks exactly like what our Long John Silvers looks like. I mean it totally looks like LJS, like the pic is from a commercial for LJS.......

[newb]

"As for brown sauce, that stuff is the shiznit! I have it with most meals. I heard once that it's called steak sauce in America? It's a vegetable mix that's mildly spicy and has a somewhat pickled/fermented flavour."


sounds like our A1 sauce

[crabapple]

It's funny...a funny thing about that steak sauce stuff. I like it okay, but not with steak! I find the stuff tastes dreadful on steak, ends up just sort of masking the flavor with its weirdness. But on other things, potatoes and veggies and whatnot, I think it is lovely.