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?

You'd have to pay ME £4.95 to eat that.

I would rather stay hungry than eat that food, it doesn't look very appetising.

YANBU. You'd expect something looking more appetising than that's. It's not the food, it's the presentation. Not much tofu and plantain either. Wouldn't go back!

Spartan. That was the word I was looking for.

You need something moist with that.

Looks Very dry

Avocardos are much cheaper at Morrisons

Neelie they have "Southern ways" in Ilkley, they are almost as bad as Harrogate

You can really tell the demographic of MN on a thread like this

YANBU OP I'm with Devorak £5 in a cafe here would get you a proper meal and our local vegan cafe charges £6 for a 2 course meal.

Hoppingreen

Back home in humble Lancashire! Shan't be getting ideas above my station again 😉

I was expecting avo on both bits of toast and more than 2 slices of plantain (love plantain). I asked for the butter. I was full up with bread bit would prefer less bread and more plantain tbh.
I live in a rough but gentrifying area in London. It's great to have a vegan friendly cafe so close but I wish they were better at presentation/portion size. I was so hungry I could have eaten a scabby horse!

I think you're expecting far too much for that price. Avocado and plantain are expensive ingredients. As for presentation, it's a cafe, not a Michelin started restaurant. You sound like hard work. It's a sandwich, if you wanted more than that than go and buy it.

Plantain are not expensive round my way. 3 for £1.00 @ my local grocer.

I thin if you were so hungry you could eat a scabby horse that was never going to be satisfied by a fiver a dish to be fair for that sort of food.

'Plantain are not expensive round my way. 3 for £1.00 @ my local grocer.'

Yeah, well, it's a shedload more when you have business rates, utilities and staff to pay as you're running a cafe on top of food costs. Pretty unrealistic to expect anything other than what you got for a fiver.

I don't even know what a plantain is.

You'd pay £7 for that here, at least. You've got a bargain.

You also don't have to eat there again.

I think you could reasonably expect avocado on both slices surely? Although a fiver for anything in London is cheap.

I think you are being tight, now you've carried on and mentioned grocer's rates .

A sandwich in a café costs that much. Take it or leave it.

I think you could reasonably expect avocado on both slices surely?

I disagree for a fiver. It's a sarnie, you clap the tofu on top of the avocado, layer the plantain on top of that (eeww) and then the spinach.

But hey, if you don't like their portion sizes or presentation, then you eat elsewhere.

YANBU to think it should be more but YABU to expect more, if that makes sense.

£3 for a salad sandwich in the café I go to for lunch, and that's in the home counties.

YANBU - that seems quite cheap, especially in London.

Fair for under a fiver. That's brunch prices and portions rather than lunch.

I also have no idea what plantain is....

Personally it doesn't look appealing but price seems cheap for a sandwich (I'm in south east - near brighton)

Not a bad portion for the price but, yes, I'd have expected avocado on both slices because it's weird to serve a piece of dry bread.

Do tofu eaters take butter? I thought they were all to health obsessed to partake in the golden yummy stuff.
It looks ok for under a fiver.