What time do you have your Sunday Roast?

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When I was a kid we had a Sunday roast most weeks especially in the winter, and it was always served around 3pm ish, maybe an hour earlier or later.

That for me is 'normal' time to have a roast. In fact a lot of pubs and carveries round us only open until 3 or 4 for lunch and then close Sunday evening.

DH's family though consider 'Sunday Dinner' to be dinner and serve between 6 & 7 which for me seems really late!

So, out of nothing more than curiosity, what time would you serve a Sunday roast? (Also what part of the country are you in, in case it's a regional variation?).

In the north, Sunday ‘lunch’, is about 1 for us as is all my side and dp’s side of the family

As a child, a roast was unlikely to be on Sunday, as we often went to church both in the morning and the evening. A roast was more likely to be on another evening (Saturday, maybe?) and not every week. My grandmother would usually make pudding, and would join us, because she didn’t think it worth while to make a roast just for herself.

As an adult, I do often do a Sunday roast, but this would be eaten at dinner time (about 7pm in our house). I do this less when the children are at uni, though.

Usually about 6pm, but we are both one meal a day so sometimes it's 4pm. We just have a small joint so it takes less than an hour

Not from the uk but we always had it around 1pm. Now I serve it around 3 pm so we don’t need anything in the evening.

We nearly always have our main meal in the evening. There's too much to do on a Sunday to revolve a non working day around a meal

Well if they call it dinner then it’s naturally going to be a dinner time?

We used to have it for lunch at 1.30 / 2pm but that breaks up the day which I guess is why it’s less popular than it was. These days we only really have it if we’re going out or if it’s a special occasion. We do occasionally have a roast for midweek dinner just because.

I know that the idea was, originally, that you had your roast after you came back from church - so lunchtime - but we always felt that it messed up the day. We'd rather be out & about doing stuff and then eat the roast for evening meal.

Well if they call it dinner then it’s naturally going to be a dinner time?

That sort of inspired the regional question. It was Sunday Dinner when I was a kid too, but I'm from the north, so dinner is/was lunch.

As children we always had Sunday dinner at lunchtime, after church, so about 1:30.
The meat went in pre church, veg was prepped and in the water, so it all got switched on while Dad got the papers, and we got changed from church clothes.
In our house, if we do a roast, it's usually teatime (6-7pm)

Grew up in NI, now live in NE England

3pm here.

We don't get up until about 9.30am so don't bother with breakfast.

About half one. I’d only aim for 3-4pm if we’d had a massive breakfast. Sometimes Xmas dinner ends up being 3pm cos everything just takes so long, that’s with starting at 7am! (I’ve managed it by 1.30 in the past but that was smaller turkeys and improved preparedness!).

Or, we’d have normal lunch and the roast for evening meal.

All the Sunday pub lunches around here open normal time, late morning, and serve for ages. I’ve not come across them only opening from 3-4pm - wonder if it’s regional?

I’ve never cooked one (and never plan to) but when we go out for one it’s usually about 3-4pm. London, and pubs are generally pretty busy serving roasts all day long on Sunday. But we’re childfree as are all our friends and I guess life can be more flexible when you don’t have hangry whining kids to feed.

It sounds like you serve yours for lunch and in laws serve theirs for dinner. Neither is outlandish.

Between 6-7pm, we do stuff on a Sunday and would be totally restricted if the day revolved around a meal in the middle of the day. Plus dc2 works Sundays during the day but is home from 4:30.
We eat all our main meals in the evening so it doesn’t feel unusual to us.
If MIL invited us round for a Sunday roast it’s at 1pm, she’s very traditional (and a brilliant cook so we never turn down an invite 😂).

We have brunch and then Sunday Roast around 5:30.
works for us. As a child ( North ) it was Sunday evening.

Growing up lunch was 12.30/1. The oven was on all morning for batch cooking. Afternoons were spent on day trips in the car to the nearest beach, nature reserve, castle or diy store 🤣 with my own family if we’re having a roast then it must be Christmas Day.

It varies
Tomorrow will be 3pm ish

I'm from London, my preference would be to have it at 1pm, but my DC have sports matches on Sundays so it often has to be at 6/7pm instead.

I’m with you cooked breakfast at 9ish. Late lunch 3ish. Something on toast/ cheese and crackers for supper around 7ish. You want to be hungry but not close to bed in case you feel bloated.

About 3-4 for me growing up, DH would do it at normal dinner time but I think a roast is far to heavy to have that close to bed time

We never cook one but if we decide to go out, we have it around 1pm.

We like it befpre1pm so we can go out for walk or afternoon trip when the days get longer. I couldn't be bothered to do a long meal in the evening-prep would have to start about 4 or 5pm. Plus I'm always a bit stuffed afterwards. I wouldn't like to be that full going to bed. On Sunday evening's after a roast lunch we'll normally just have a dessert in the early evening or cheese and crackers and fruit.

We eat around 1pm

When I feel like cooking. Growing up it was 1/1.30. When my kids were small more like 6, then once they were choristers closer to 4 as they needed to be back at church for evensong. Now I cook it some weeks and the time depends on who I'm cooking for (young adult kids who may be home, and may have plus ones) when i have got around to going shopping, if there's something worth watching on tv at any given time and what I feel like. No rules anything from 1pm to 7pm

we never have a roast, we have dinner on Sunday at the usual time of round 7.30pm

As a child we usually had a roast at about the same time