Am I being tight/ greedy?

[Feebeela]

I ordered sourdough toast with avocado, tofu and plantain at my local cafe for lunch today. I was hungry. The dish was 2 slices of sourdough toast; 1 slice with avocado, 1 slice naked no butter, 2 small strips of tofu and 2 small slices of plantain with about 5 spinach leaves. I questioned the portion size as it seemed a bit, well, mean. My friend said it was about right but I was expecting avo on both slices and more than 2 slices of plantain for £4.95.

AIBU or AIB greedy?

I think you can tell exactly what kind of cafe you were in when you ordered plantain, sourdough, tofu and sourdough.

£3.95 for this in Belfast.

You get no pity from me.

Also, £5 seems about right for that. It's not much less than that for a toasted sandwich in Costa.

Shatners, that's what I thought...you slap it all together. Either way, where I live it would cost a lot more than a fiver!

It's more a deconstructed sandwich than anything else isn't it?

If you pop the tofu & plantain on the avocado & then the dry slice of bread on that you have a sandwich. £4.95 is a pretty standard price for a "naice" sandwich around here (Midlands).

Anywhere with sourdough bread, tofu & plantain on the menu is likely to count as a "naice" establishment. Not something you'd see in a greasy spoon for example!

Oh wow I'm vegan,that looks lush ,where are you living to get that that..just costas in my town..which ofcourse means nothing I can eat

Portion totally fine for a fiver. Doesn't look well presented though - which I suspect is the bigger problem

I live in London but am in Belfast for a couple of days.

It was lush but not for vegans. Well, there was vegan food sprinkled on top.

It's not necessarily the size, it all just looks a bit spartan. The avocado just looks mashed up a bit and plonked on the bread, it looks like it needs a bit of zhuzzhing up with olive oil, salt and pepper, maybe a bit of chilli and lemon juice. What's that on the spinach leaves? Everything looks a bit dry.

YABU. Looks about right for a fiver. It's a deconstructed sandwich. I'd be embarrassed if I were out with someone who questioned that portion size.

It looks fair for £4.95.

You'd need one avocado for two slices of bread I think. They cost £1.29 in Waitrose to give you an idea.

If you want more food then spend more money!

What made it not vegan?

It looks like plenty, if poorly plated up. But for $4.95 it's great!

I just had something similar in a trendy place in Ilkley,it cost ten quid and wasn't that amazing. And I am hungry now😳.

Looks like a starter size to me. Did it fill you?

Devorak you glutton.

YABU!

For under £5, that's very good. I thought it was going to be more like £9.

And you have a pot of butter in the photo!

You'd need one avocado for two slices of bread I think. They cost £1.29 in Waitrose to give you an idea.

£1.80 for two in Tesco. DS eats a lot of avocado.

Agree with Devorak

What were you expecting OP - or did you mean £14.95?

It's basically a deconstructed avocado, spinach, tofu and plantain sandwich. £4.95 for a sandwich in a café is probably about right. Perhaps you should have ordered chips with it if you were really, really hungry!

It looks absolutely rank and inadequate, yanbu.

It seems a very fair price to me, even on the cheap side.

Well it was certainly good value.

Well, that is certainly good value.

there appears to be some butter in the metal pot next to it. Put that on the other slice, stuff the food in there and you have a sandwich.

Seems reasonable imo.

But it doesn't look particularly lovely... Then again, I don't like plantain and usually don't eat a lot of bread. But the amount does seem reasonable to me personally.

Impossible to tell without knowing how big the plate/bread slices are. If that is a pot of butter on the side then I don't think the plate looks much bigger than my iPad mini, so I would say it's not much food.