to loathe the current fad for serving meals on wooden boards?

[DustBunnyFarmer]

The worst was a fancy local bistro serving my steak and chips with pepper sauce on a board. There was no way I could pour the pepper sauce over the steak without serious risk of run-off. I ended up dipping each mouthful in the jug of pepper sauce before eating it. Same restaurant served veggie meals on the same boards (there didn't seem to be any differentiation). Totally unsatisfactory. I also think chopping boards are not particularly hygienic. Bleurgh. Also, at the kind of prices swanky bistros charge, you would think they could afford proper crockery. The sooner this fad wanes, the better IMO.

Cook my own food

It certainly looks pretty but it's bloody stupid. I had a salad at a lovely informal restaurant in the City and whilst it tasted brilliant, I had to pad the table with napkins to stop the dressing getting in my clothes.

Haha, we went out to a JO restaurant a few months ago and kept "helpfully" moving the tinned tomatoes out of the way for the server. It took quite a patient explanation from the waitress before we figured they were MEANT to be in the middle of the table but Grandma still didn't really get it!

Thanks for the warning, we will never go to a JO restaurant. Always found him a prize wanker anyway.

I HATE the board thing. YANBU at all. All I can think of is the other meals and dishwater that's been on it before my dinner, soaking into it. I always ask for a plate and come off as a trifle fussy...

Who cares if they think you are fussy, you are a paying customer and it's not like you are asking them to move mountains? 'I would like my food on a proper plate, please.'

I don't mind that much really and am usually fairly assertive about that kind of thing. It's more that friends get slightly eye-rolly!

I can't use forks that have scraped anything else metal...can feel a metallic taste radiating off them, and my local restaurant gave me a breakfast in a frying pan recently! I asked them to take it back and give me a plate instead. Apparently that happens all the time...so why not just put it on a plate ffs.

As for the place that gave me a "deconstructed" caesar salad...what's the point in having lettuce leaves, a rasher of bacon, and 3 splodges of dressing on a plate!

I loathe them and I'm surprised that only one other person has mentioned those wretched stones they sometimes serve steak on that keep too hot forever. A plate please and I don't care if it's round or oblong.

BlueBrightBlue - A SHOVEL? Really?

Tell me where that was, please! I have to take my Dad there, they will get the shock of their lives, trying to pull that crap with him!

I've had food served on a board before now but the peas weren't even put inside a little bowl , that was fun, lots of escapee peas!

I think we should all take a picture the next time we have our food served on something other than a plate then name and shame.

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Pahahahahahahaha!

That is horrendous! Amazing, but horrendous!

Christ on a bike! I would have fallen over laughing and the told them to bring it back on a plate. There is no way to gracefully cut that or eat it.

Why do people put up with it?

YANBU.

I don't mind for a sarnie - I often eat my own off a (plastic) chopping board, to save on plates :o

YADNBU for reasons of both hygiene and eating practicality!

One of our local places serves their meals in shallow roasting tins, you know, those white ones with blue edges... The food does not escape, but please, what's next, kidney dish?

Oh wow, just seen the shovel pic I wouldn't have been able to eat off that, shovel and shit and all that.......

Yes, lovely - my immediate connotations of 'shovel' are: shit, dirt, grave.

Please do serve my lunch on that.

Oh, and the jam jar thing is another fun trend.

Friend and I recently paid $16 each for cocktails served in mismatched jars, which we consumed sitting on backless wooden stools pulled up to a tree-stump table. Knees banged awkwardly into the table, so had to sit like a cowboy. Wanktastic.

Was taking to dd the other day about this we went for lunch we got ourpannini sandwiches on a board and our chips in a pail A BLOODY PAIl I tutted all thrpugh lunch

I've had a prawn cocktail served in one of those jam jars.

Why?

How are you meant to eat out of a jam jar fgs, I liked a new grill places near me the food looked delicious till I saw the chopping board

God knows with the jam jars. I felt like a toddler in a cubby-house, drinking out of a jar whilst perching at a stump.

I love it. I go out for wanky lunches with jam jars and wooden boards with my colleagues when I'm at work. You lot all sound like my Grandma nothing is betterer than chips served in a mini fryer or a juicy, blood filled steak on a bit of slate.