Your post lockdown restaurant order

[PrincessHoneysuckle]

Aibu to be encouraging others to think about the food they are missing?

Mine will be mussels in black bean sauce then king prawns in pepper sauce with egg fried rice from the naice Chinese Restaurant near us.😋

Chines food. Doesn't mattter what kind I just want Chinese Food. Its been over a month. I just want chinese food

Afternoon tea with my friends, at the Inn on the Lake overlooking the Ullswater 🌈

A chicken wrap with all the different gorgeous salads (no mayo coleslaw with ginger, roasted sweet potato, broccoli and feta) from the little place near my work. It sounds so tiresomely healthy but it's huge and zingy and gorgeous and I miss them.

@FabulouslyFab- I bought DH a weekend there for Christmas once. We went in between Christmas and new year and it snowed- it was wonderful!

Intimate corner booth table for me and Mr. Noodle at Hawksmoor, bottle of malbec for the table as well as a couple of Harvey Wallbanger Jrs, of course a jug of water.

Half lobster each to start, then we'll have the 1kg Porterhouse steak to share, medium rare please. Buttered greens, mash, chips, mac and cheese and broccoli to share.

I'll be too full for dessert but I will look at the menu for a bit and eventually order some gourmet rolos.

Yes of course I'll be leaving a nice big tip, too.

A big slice of Polish apple pie from the bakery down the road which is currently shut. This apple pie is THE BEST apple pie I have ever eaten.

Onion Baji wrap, with mango chutney, a cup of chai and a vege samosa to go, and a sit down on the river bank, watching the world go by.

Or, battered halloumi and chips, sat on the quayside, listening to the ropes tapping against masts of the sail boats.

Proper pizza and courgette fries from a local Italian restaurant.

Further afield, tapas on the beach front, in Costa Dorado. We managed it last summer, and the memory has become my 'happy place' recently.

Anything I don’t have to cook myself would be pretty exciting.

Oh, and it’d be a spontaneous choice, to make up for all the endless planning ahead. Something extravagant, requiring proper professional kitchen kit and expertise to make. Eaten at a big table, crammed with friends. Everyone sharing bites of food, jostling happily for the best bits.

Proper Yum Cha lunch over 2 hours would do the trick I suspect!

Sigh.

@polpotnoodle - yours wins for me - can I come along too?? Sounds PERFECT

Nando’s! Hot veggie burger (the butternut squash one), with avocado and peri sweet potato wedges and corn on the cob on the side. Probably one of the pitta strips with a dip starters as well, but I might agree to share that...

I also really fancy a chinese, but our local one is closed at the moment even though it stayed open after lockdown was announced. I’m hopeful it’s just a precaution and not because they’re sick

@PolPotNoodle my DF who lives near the sea is now getting a lobster delivered every week by the fisherman who can no longer sell to pubs

But mine would really be fish and chips from our local chippy.

From my favourite Indian restaurant

Chicken Rogan Josh or Bhuna
Garlic Naan
Popadums

From my favourite Sushi Place

Giant mixed seafood platter
Edame beans
Chicken Gyoza

From my favourite Chinese

Aromatic crispy duck and pancakes
Bean sprouts, bamboo shoots and water chestnuts
Fried rice and rice noodles

Chinese - black bean tofu, veggie spring rolls, sweet and sour bamboo shoots, seaweed, egg fried rice.

Or Wagamama, vegetable gyoza, garlic fried greens, vegan ramen, fruit juice, green tea and cheesecake.

I'm hungry!

Steak and kidney pie, chips and gravy from the local chippy - then next day get dressed up to the nines and go to a fantastic Italian whose Madeira sauce is to die for

Chicken hanging kebab with sweet chilli fries followed by a chocolate brownie and marshmallow hanging kebab from The Botanist :-)

Wagamamas - bang bang cauliflower, teriyaki chicken Don buri, salted caramel cheesecake. Love Wagamamas cos the kids both like it

I love Chinese food. There is a lovely takeout place and restaurant within walking distance.

This is what I will order:

Egg fried rice
Spring rolls
Peking duck
Dim sum

I fancied a Chinese takeaway the weekend before lockdown, but both our decent local ones had already shut down - I would currently sell my OH for either of them to be open and deliver...

Steak and chips with a side of onion rings and a big glass of wine from the pub salivating at the thought

Chicken curry udon and a side of fried rice out my favourite Japanese restaurant

Tgi fridays jack Daniel's glazed mushroom strips and a vegan burger with cheese and burger sauce and a vat of jd glaze for fries.

Also gagging for a chai tea latte!

This thread is making me ravenous!

Sardines at my local Italian and a Bellini.

Afternoon tea at the most AMAZING pub about an hour away