Anyone else not like Gastropubs?

[WisteriaLodge]

It's probably just me and I'm probably being unreasonable but anyone else not like them? They seem to be everywhere now, they look pleasant enough but they all look the same including the over priced menus, pale blue or grey tongue and groove in the dining/ bar area, I don't know, I just want a real old fashioned 16th century country pub with a roaring fire! There's no point to this post I'm just musing (moaning) but I can't be alone in feeling like this can I? My local pub has just been turned into one with a local 'celebrity' chef turning the menu all fancy. Maybe I'm getting old ha ha!

I bet you're fuming, that would make me cross too. There's a pub in the next village which hasn't been turned into a pretentious wanky gastro pub.....not yet anyhow, it also has the bloke in the corner drinking a beer with his doggie on the floor! You don't get these local characters in gastropubs..

Yep. I want steak, chips, onion rings and all he trimmings. Not steak and a few sweet potatoe croquettes, resting in a bed of sautéed seaweed.

If they have slates for plates and prices without the £ sign then they will have to do without my custom.

Wankers.

I do live triple cooker chips though.

@sixfeetabove you mean a lie pie!

With bare floors and walls the sound is usually tremendous so that you can’t hear what the person sitting opposite is saying.

Loving all these replies and I agree with each and every one of you!

Funny thread actually 🤣 it’s all so true

Everything is served on a slate.

I must say I haven’t seen a slate for ages now it’s now a ‘rustic’ plate like this sort of thing, but the chips agree do come in those silly mini metal buckets and when you take them out there’s hardly any !

We have lovely ones here, no blue tongue &groove, local fish based menu at one, more game in another and lots of Caribbean food at another.

Yes! The lighting is always awful in those places. With sticky tables and always a used-up, previously posh Bramley hand wash and lotion in the loos.

Exactly, just serve me food on a sodding plate...

And prices only to one decimal place.

Eg: Wanky meal: 20.5

Me too, you have to search for them now...

Ha and table numbers on a wooden spoon...and why are they always so bloody noisy! I sound like a moaning git but I don't care, you're all coming out the woodwork which is fabulous!

@cliffdiver
Is there a point to that 20.5 pricing or is it just to be pretentious

Yes it's all too try hard and in authentic...

Yes they're knob heads...

Luckily our village one is traditional, bar area, where the same people sit at the bar daily, the posher bar bit roaring fire and then a small restaurant at the back apart from the specials board don't think the menu has changed in 20 yrs, landlord gets all his regulars but also gets people travelling from all over for home cooked meals. The oldies who go daily you can set your watch by them. Love my local. The thee other pubs close by seem to strruggle one turned into a chain lost its home cooked food, one re-invented itself as a gastro pub and the last one whilst retaining its feature seems to put more effort into the dog menu than edible selections for humans.

The 20.5 way of pricing should be outlawed. Either £21 or £20.50.

The slate thing should be optional and you be allowed to insist on a plate. Helps those with limited sight, my late father needed one to ensure the food ended up on his fork not the floor.

I suppose a true gastropub is a fine dining Michelin pub like Tim kerridges ? These really are basic country pubs made over for todays more sophisticated and discerning diner demographic according to the marketing team at the brewery head office anyway - there’s no in between really, it’s that or spoons

I really fancy all that right now though tbh

In this county a lot of tenant landlords have been given notice and all the traditional pubs are going this way, depending on location of course.

@TheMarzipanDildo
Marks and Spencer has a gastro pub range at a fraction of the cost !