How much would this cost at your local gastro?

[goingforatrot]

Bowl of olives to start. Ribs with chips, cheese cake dessert. 1 WKD and 1 lemonade.

A child's macaroni cheese.

Thank you! Just interested to compare

@goingforatrot

If it helps it's a Hungry Horse type chain

Downmarket to Harvester? You'd have to pay ME to eat there!!

I was going to say £40ish at Gastro, but I'd expect it be half that at somewhere worse than Harvester.

I'd FAR rather go to Pizza Express!

Please broaden your horizons, hungry horse is NOT gastro!

@Shirleyphallus

Maybe your definition if gastro pub is different.
You know there are gastro pubs with Michelin stars, or well known chefs. Local gastro pubs will often have the locals who know the chef.

Gastro pubs (by my definition) take their food seriously. They arent just a pub that also microwaves food.

no precise idea, but estimate £40?

Yeh I’d expect less for a hungry horse

Olives £5
Ribs £22
Cheesecake 7
Kids meal 8
Drinks (guess - they’re not on the menu I’m looking at) £6

£48 total

Gastro pub in my village. And the food is awful too!

About £45 here

Would be around £50 here.

Oh I’ve just seen it was a hungry horse chain, not a gastro pub?

£30 ish I would imagine.

I was going to say £45ish but read your update it not being gastro, would say less than £30 in one of those type places.

Was it good quality and tasted freshly made or churned out re-heated stuff like Nando's and Pizza Express?

If it was poor quality then you are right it was expensive. If it was good quality food the price sounds about right.

Christ down market to a harvester? That takes some doing,

Anyway seems fairly reasonable pricing. Did someone have a three course meal when the kid sat there watching with a small Mac and cheese and a lemonade?

Weren’t the prices on the menu before ordering?

Hungry horse don’t do olive to start etc, so not a hungry horse exactly.

@goingforatrot
I like WKD as well 🥂🥂

Nothing wrong with a visit to a hungry horse. There is one less than 10 mins from me and I live in one of the most affluent areas in Glasgow 😂😂😂
I reckon about £30/35

I don’t think you went to a gastro.

Roughly £38 before tip here so seems reasonable to me.

Did someone have a three course meal when the kid sat there watching with a small Mac and cheese and a lemonade?

DS shared the olives with me, had his main when I had mine, then had a cheese cake and I had a few mouthfuls. The lemonade was mine, he had a drink in his cup already

[quote TheWoleb]@Shirleyphallus

Maybe your definition if gastro pub is different.
You know there are gastro pubs with Michelin stars, or well known chefs. Local gastro pubs will often have the locals who know the chef.

Gastro pubs (by my definition) take their food seriously. They arent just a pub that also microwaves food.[/quote]
Right but Nando’s freshly cooks their chicken and PE freshly cooks their pizzas so 🤷‍♀️

Why not just say the chain? No one will mind. I would be surprised if that's Hungry Horse prices.

The lemonade was mine

I thought you were going to say your DS had the WKD

@goingforatrot

If it helps it's a Hungry Horse type chain

I'd expect

Olives 3.50
Ribs & chips 11/12.95
Cheesecake 4.50
WKD 3.50
Lemonade 1.99
Childs' macaroni 4.00

@Shirleyphallus

What are you on about? You're making no sense.

You replied to a poster who said gastro pub is often freshly cooked and told her they use microwave meals. A lot of them do not and are actually award winning.

Now you're saying that nando's freshly cooks its food? Good for them. But what does that have to do with it? Those are a huge nations with massive buying power so they're food can be freshly cooked and pretty cheap.

Independent gastro pubs are not huge chains with massive buying power and they often source ingredients locally. So they make freshly cooked food at a higher price.

I'm really not sure what point it is you're trying to make?

Some pubs which do food use microwave meals. Really good gastro pubs take their food seriously. Nothing to do with nando's.

PE isn't what it once was, but it is - mostly - freshly cooked. I'd take it over most pubs around here and most other chains.

I think we'd pay about the same. It's actually one of my bug bears at the moment - a lot of pubs serving pretty average food at gastropub prices. 15 years ago, if I went to a gastro pub, I'd expect to pay more than a regular pub but I'd get really good food. Now, it's all pretty average but still overpriced. Our local charges £14 for a burger.... but it's not a gastropub, made by hand in the kitchen burger but rather a larger version of a mass produced mcdonalds. Annoys me every time and I now refuse to eat there.

Without even checking your total I said 4 + 15 + 7 + 5 + 3 10% (44) so that kind of makes sense to me.