I'm thinking this is pretentious

[MikeRafone]

https://www.countrycreatures.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/DRD-Dinner-Menu-23.05.25.pdf

just checking out places to eat as I'm staying nearby late August for one night. I expect the Cotswolds to be on the pricey side but the wording on this menu and the prices I find are all a bit much..

Or am I really that out of touch?

I live 50 miles north and am travelling through, so I do know what the area is like.

I shall not be eating there and will grab something in Lechlade I expect.

Is it really normal to eat that much steak? Or is that for 2/3 people?

I don’t know about pretentious but it looks a little boring and visually, the menu looks like it was belongs in a greasy spoon.

Fish and chips by the river sounds perfect to me though!

The kg steaks dh and ds will share and if it’s a bigger one I’ll share too. They usually advise you how much of it is expected to be bone and how many people it would reasonably serve with potatoes and other sides.
Menu looks good to me and prices in line with what I would expect to pay.
I’d sooner eat somewhere like this than somewhere cheaper with crap quality food (not that cheaper places necessarily means poor quality of course, we’ve had some exceptional meals for less but some of our favourites are all around this price point). Happy to pay for good food but beyond furious to pay for shit offerings.

I live in Bristol and eat out fairly regularly in good independent restaurants. The wording, descriptions and prices are pretty standard to be honest. Menus have been laid out in this way (minimalistic descriptions and no pound signs) for at least 15 years in this neck of the woods.

🤣🤣🤣

Presumably you could claim ignorance and false advertising as you leave them 25p out of your purse at the end of the meal.

I know this place. Nice but expensive for pub food.

Looks nice, I’d eat there.

Does their printer charge by the letter? Were pound signs too expensive?

I agree OP. Pretentious twattery. I can only ponder how superior the staff might be.

It is just food ffs. Not the cure for cancer.

I do love fish & chips 🙃

I like pretentious food.

Even when it’s burnt?

English spareguts of course, but they don't specify the origin.
JRs are protected, & not available now.

😁 And look like they’ve been woodfired (or completely incinerated in my case).

I think the menu sounds quite normal for a ‘nice’ place (and delicious). I wouldn’t say the wording was pretentious, no foam clouds of crushed petit pois aka mushy peas.

I really fancy trying the beef dripping toast.

Sounds bloody delicious.

To me this is a normal menu. On the pricier side though but it sounds like a more up market place.

Similar menus we have around here, we are on the edge of the Cotswold though so maybe I think it’s normal.

Even Pret a Minge has a salad box containing ‘massaged kale’.

Food descriptions are soooo pretentious!

I live in the Cotswolds and I hate to break it to you but that’s not bad value for eating out here - although yes I accept it’s a pub, but they are never “just a pub” in the Cotswold villages anymore sadly.

Pret a minge 😂

A good bit of char on a lemon? Yes please.

It’s trying to be posh sounding but utterly failing 😂😂
im not even sure it would qualify as pretentious.

The prices 😭😭
(but yay I’m living in the back of nowhere, in an area that isn’t that rich either so might have that completely wrong)

And with the beef, the price is per kilo. I imagine you can have a 200g steak, or a 300g if you prefer, it's giving a nice amount of flexibility.

OP is annoyed about the lack of nuggets.

That menu is well up there on the ponce-ometer.

I'll have the crab to start and the duck with peach and red wine for main please.
Would quite like some hispi cabbage and green beans on the side if anyone would like to share?