What do you order at the restaurant?

[SparklesandGold]

For me it’s:

Starter - soup/nachos/cheese board etc

Mains - chilli chicken strips/steak/burger/curry / lasagne / roast dinner etc

Dessert - pavlova/choc fudge cake/sticky toffee pudding/cheesecake

Either soup or something like tempura chicken for starter, a nice steak in peppercorn sauce or Caledonian or Balmoral Chicken for main and I'd tear your arm off for a good créme brûlée for dessert. (And maybe take one to go too!)

Unfortunately I can't bloody find anywhere that does creme brûlée these days.

Starter: panzella salad, or calamari - something light

Main: stuffed squid, or tuna steak, or any other fish dish. Side salad or rocket and Parmesan, or Greek salad.

Desert: something based around dark chocolate or citrus fruit.

Maybe cheeseboard to share right at the end too.

I want to eat this EVERY day.

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I want to dine at all your ‘restaurants’!

Starter: Either some kind of bruschetta or mussels.

Main: Toulouse sausage with the amazing mash and veg they do at a French restaurant.

Dessert: The raspberry snowball delight ice cream sundae with raspberries, coconut snowballs, sauces and loads of whipped cream on top from my favourite Italian place.

Cheese board to start? Is that a thing?

Never order soup, cheese board? or nachos as a starter. They sound very boring.

Rarely have room for pudding, but it would be bread and butter pudding if they have it.

Basically I order whatever sounds good on the menu. Mussels, fish and seafood are a winner for me.

Lamb is good too, but never chicken because I think it's a fairly boring meat however you dress it up.

Another one who's never seen a cheeseboard as a starter!

I'd probably go for:

Starter: either something fishy, seafood, or mushrooms. Maybe something cheesy like baked Camembert (but not a cheeseboad!)

Main: Either seafood, fish or steak

Dessert: Either nothing or a cheeseboard!

@BarbaraofSeville 😁 As my main would be a really decent, spicy curry I'd have to go with popadoms! 🧞‍♂️

Over the last couple of weeks I've had;

Italian for lunch with DD

Frito misto
Spaghetti alle vongole
No pudding

Lunch at a pub that does great Korean food

Korean fried chicken, rice, kimchi.
Mango sorbet, strawberry and basil sorbet.

Lunch at a pan-asian restaurant with one of my sisters

Salt and pepper sea bass California rolls
Tempura squid
Korean beef skewers
Minimum and honey beef fillet tatare with a soy cured egg yolk
Salmon tataki with pony and truffle oil
Tuna sashimi
Deep fried rice squares with tuna and avocado.

Bento box sharing pudding with five different mini-puddings in.

Last night we went to a fancy grill restaurant of DD's chosing as it was her birthday.

Pisco Sour

Complimentary amuse bouche of hot tomato, basil and goat's cheese dip with warm bread.

Sticky Asian style belly pork

Shared a chateaubriand with DH, fries, confit tomatoes, green salad, Béarnaise sauce and blue cheese sauce (couldn't decide so had both!), side of long-stemmed broccoli with chilli and garlic, another side of tempura soft-shell crab. Argentinian malbec.

No pudding, had an espresso martini instead as was stuffed!

Off to a French brasserie tomorrow and modern British on Saturday where I will no doubt order something completely different. Love eating out.

Minimum? Mirim!

Also not pony, ponzu!

Must proof-read, bloody phone!!

idontlikealdi Here in France we eat our cheese before our dessert(s).

Between main and dessert? Not as a starter though?

Usually a starter I can share with the 9 year old, so chicken goujons, a different main every time, and panna cotta. The only time we actually eat in a restaurant, it's the Spaghetti House.

knittingaddict Yes, between main and dessert.

For a casual meal you can have a platter of cheese, maybe also with charcuterie or pâté, perhaps some crudités, or when socialising informally with friends you might share a platter like that over drinks in a bar or at someone's home (the apéro) and then go on to a restaurant for dinner. However it's more common to see other stuff on apéro platters than straight up cheese. Gougères are good in winter, though.

Yes, we frequently have meals like that Happy36. Not as a starter in a restaurant though, like op had.

I don’t usually have a starter unless I’m really really hungry.

I usually just have a main course and a dessert.

And no, I wouldn’t eat all those things I listed in one go, they are just things I’d generally have when I’m out on separate occasions

Starter - nothing
Mains Thai yellow curry or Massaman curry/chicken bhuna/rack of lamb/Balmoral chicken/any Greek or Turkish main/any Chinese or Japanese main/pizza - basically, I like most things.
Dessert - nothing

I'm not a competitive under eater
Portions in my part of Yorkshire are very hearty

Starter - paté

Main - pie with mash veg & gravy, or sausage and mash

Dessert- cheese board

Then a strong black coffee with a little chocolate mint

Oooo now I'm hungry!

Starter: calamari
Main: pork belly with crispy crackling, apple sauce and a range of veg or chicken katsu curry
Dessert: Eton mess or ice cream

S: Thai fish cakes with peanut dipping sauce
M: any fish dish that I wouldn’t cook at home, Sole, Hake, Monk fish etc with potato gratin
D: sticky toffee pudding or treacle sponge with custard
Cheese lots of it.
Any dry rose wine from South of France

Starter- seafood (prawns or calamari) or chicken strips/skewers

Main- pasta (bolognese or meatballs) or chicken and ribs or salmon

Dessert-anything with chocolate and caramel. There is a restaurant near me that does a sundae with chocolate ice cream, caramel sauce, cheesecake and brownies. It is literally my dessert heaven 😋

Drink- appletiser if I'm driving, white wine if I'm not

Hmmm I'm hungry now

Starter: fish or seafood, preferably prawns
Main: nicoise salad or club sandwich
Dessert: Rum baba

Nothing that I cook at home, so things with unusual / multiple ingredients or fish that I’d be scared to cock up. Desserts - the types with lots of components especially if grilled pineapple is involved

Mushrooms on bruschetta
Goulash with rice and garlic bread
Baked cheesecake with semifreddo fruits of the forest.

Port and Stilton. 😋