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

Actually I missed the kids macaroni and cheese so yes that would make sense to me if you’re in the south.

[quote TheWoleb]@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.[/quote]
Read the original quote I was replying to:

You can't compare a good freshly prepared meal, with Nandos or PE.

My point was that Nando’s and PE do freshly prepare a lot of their meals, whereas a lot of gastro pubs do not.

Perhaps don’t pick people up on comments if you’re not prepared to read what they originally commented on

We had lunch last weekend at our local pub and it cost £70ish for food & drinks, 2 adults 4 kids.

Water 10p x5
2 pints of Stella £9.90
1 house vodka & soda £4.30
3 pints of coke £9.30
1 orange squash 60p
4 kids nuggets meals including tiny pot of ice cream £19.80
Fries £3
Southern fried chicken strips £5.45
Tuna baguette £7.45
Beef chilli & cheese topped dirty fries £5.95
Spicy breaded prawns £5.95
Cheesy garlic bread £4.95

I was shocked to begin with but there was a massive amount of food - huge portions!

Wow your local pub is really cheap !

Eating (and drinking) out seems to have gone up enormously since before lockdown and there are none of the mid week offers available currently either.

I have no idea what a Hungry Horse pub is but good for you for having a WKD with your dinner OP. Cheers!

Last time DH and I took a DC to our local it cost us £200, it's a very nice local but for only two adults and one pre-schooler it was a bit much. Understandable that with the disruption of covid prices have had to rise.

Would be about £30 here

I'd have said £38.

That's pretty much what I'd expect, but I'd be surprised that PE or Nandos is significantly cheaper as they both seem quite expensive for what you get.

I don't think it's particularly reasonable for that sort of food, but it's what they charge. If it was Hungry Horse, I'm not sure I'd want to eat there anyway, it has to be the least appealing name for a restaurant going.

In the south here and I would have said about £37.00 based on our quite nice bar and grill.