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?).

It depends on if our football teams are playing on a Sunday or not and what time kick off is.
So it could be any time between noon and six.

I'm in the NW but am an almost lifelong southerner, so it's lunch and dinner for me. We don't that often have a roast on Sundays, but when we do, it would be at normal lunch time (say between 12:45 and 1:30) or at dinner time (around 7:30). I wouldn't eat at 3 or 4pm.

Growing up my mum used to (and still does) do it for 1pm because she "doesn't want to spend all afternoon slaving away in the kitchen".

Personally I do it for teatime (5.30/6pm) because it gives us the whole day to go out or do something. Having it at lunchtime breaks up the day too much.

I work Sundays and in all fairness DH cooks. He can do a roast (ok-ish at it), but he as he happily cooks as I'm working, he usual options are chilli, risotto or something out of freezer with veggies - we normally eat that around 6.30-7pm, so if I came home and did a roast it'd be after 7pm - we had one last night around 6.30pm as we had a guest.

Thanks all. Very mixed responses! Seems that evening / normal evening meal time is more popular at least these days, but for me it's too heavy a meal to comfortably have in the evening. Maybe just habit telling me that though.

When I was young the meat used to go in the oven on a timer while we went out for the obligatory big walk / museum / National trust property / swimming / whatever it was that week.

I've never understood slaving at a roast. I chop it, roast it, mix it bake it with about as much effort as making a spaghetti bolognaise.

Now I've got an airfryer I've shaved it down even further and with less washing up.

To answer the OP, either 3pm with girliest a or anywhere between 7:30 and 8 for family only.

We don't have huge roasts on an evening. It's not like by grandmother's giant plateful with several types of potatoes. Tomorrow we'll have roast duck at about 7. We've got activities planned for the day and lunch will probably be a sandwich

As a child about 2ish.. almost every Sunday ( I'm now 66).. l still have it same time.
We always had dinner in the week between 12.30 and 1.30.. when not at school/ work... meat and veg or home made steak pie etc
If we had school dinner then we would have tea about 5.30.. ham salad or sandwiches/ crisps/ homemade cake.

It was breakfast.
Dinner.
Tea.
( supper if still hungry of crumpets or toast).

Any time between 1-3pm for us never later. And we have one every Sunday in autumn/winter/spring.

3pm. You're always peckish by the evening then which is a great excuse to have buttered toast before bed!

8pm it's a hangover from when the boys played rugby in the morning and then we'd have a games afternoon. It was originally half past six but as the kids got older it got put back.

My roast doesn't take longer than 1 1/2 hours max (family of three) plus 1/2 hour rest and roasting the potatoes, there is no way I could go out and do things.

We play board games, watch a movie, are in the garden etc, so it's not that I am sitting and twiddling my thumbs wasting time.

If we have one (it’s not often), it’ll be around 7pm.

South West England. Roast is served lunchtime after church so about 1.30. Very occasionally slips to 2pm. If it has to be evening then try no later than 6.30pm.

There’s just the 2 of us, no kids. We have ours for our evening meal, but more like 5-6pm, nearer to 6 if my team are playing the Sunday late afternoon kick off like they are tomorrow. Not that I ever cook it - DH is a much better cook than me! But if we want a dessert/pudding - that’s my job.

We’re both from NW England, btw, both in our late 40’s but now in the East Mids thanks to the RAF. As a child, Sunday roast was always the evening meal because me and my mum would watch our local rugby team, with a 3 o’clock kick off. But if we visited my dad’s parents in York, the Sunday meal was at 1:30-2:00pm. 🤷‍♀️

I rarely have a roast but if I did it would be served at our normal dinner time, i.e. 7pm ish. It is a dinner after all.

Growing up in Ireland my family had a roast (if we had one) in the evening too, probably closer to 6 than 7, but still an evening meal.