Would you pay £18 for this as a main in a posh restaurant?

[Flowerwinter]

Ordered what I thought was a salmon fillet from the mains, this is what arrived…it was £18. I’m gutted.

Where’s the chips?

@Onairjunkie

God people are daft. It’s not a dirty plate, it’s rustically glazed. 🙄 it looks like massive hunks of raw sushi-grade salmon. Delicious. And expensive due to the way it is treated to make it safely sushi-grade.

Some people on here, honestly. Embarrassing.
Are you only happy with quantity over quality? If you want masses of food, go to a chain pub.

Which is great if sushi salmon is what you thought you were ordering ( massive hunks my arse).

But the Op thought they were getting a salmon fillet with whatever it said it was coming with on the menu.

I also think £18 isn’t “posh” prices for a salmon main, so you could reasonably expect to be getting enough food to fill you up.

To be fair there is quite a lot of salmon.

it looks like massive hunks of raw sushi-grade salmon.

I think you've misunderstood the scale. That round thing is just a thick plate. That bit of green on the plate is a pea shoot, not a small tree. It's 6 mouthfuls.

The posher the restaurant, the smaller the meal

^this

Post restaurants are famously meagre. A ten course tasting menu can leave you famished.

It looks like massive hunks of raw sushi-grade salmon. Delicious.

At the risk of sounding like a wanker I agree with this. If the salmon is sushi grade then I think it is actually a fairly generous portion and I would be delighted if this is what I had been expecting. I can see why you might be disappointed if you were expecting a more traditional salmon dish.

So YABU if it was accurately described on the menu, YANBU if the description was misleading.

That looks exactly like the salmon crudo dish at my local 'posh ish' restaurant. That's a starter or a share type dish and it's $24 so £12. I frequently have that and a couple of side as a light ish meal.

However it is a starter. There is no way any restaurant would serve that as a main course. Raw fish will never ever appear as a main course so I reckon you've either ordered off the starter menus OR they have two salmon dishes (one starter one main) and they've messed up the order

For more context the same restaurant above has a main cooked salmon fillet dish for $40 so £20.

How many Michelin stars do they have? Generally you add a zero per star.....

What did the menu say? Seriously it looks like they have salmon as a starter and a main and they've messed up the 'salmon' orders.

@Morechocmorechoc

If you are somewhere very posh then 18 for a main is cheap in which case yes that's a decent portion. More like 25 for a proper main, so I think it's reasonable, although I'd also rather have the full fillet. I ordered scallops starter the other day for 13 and got 1!

Give over, The nearest Michelin star restaurant to me are doing a sea trout lunch main just now for £19 and I guarantee it’ll be significantly bigger than that. Cured Sea Trout, Mussels, Potato, Trout Caviar, Herb Crackers, Chervil £19.00

I'd pay £9 maybe £10 for this as a starter but only if it was the finest of the fine and included scallops. As a main nope

If it is truffle on top, it would cost that much...

You were gutted? So was the salmon!

😂

If that's a main, as described, the idea of it being "massive " is laughable (and possibly virtue signalling) .

I need to know what they called it. I'd be irritated if I thought I was getting cooked salmon and I got sushi salmon.
£18 seems a standard price for main at the local pub these days, but at least you get tripple fried chips on the side (I always think they're just the ones left over from the day before put back in the fryer)

Further to my despairing comment about some people on here not appreciating sushi-grade salmon… the OP said they were expecting salmon fillet but they could very easily have misunderstood the menu. They may well have seen those two words and ordered it, expecting a cooked whole salmon fillet. I’d lay odds that based on the presentation of the dish, the menu description would have been quite flowery, which was obviously inaccessible language to the OP who has been left disappointed due to the misunderstanding of what they were ordering. But as they’ve not been back, that will have to stand as my assumption.

And for raw sushi-grade salmon, those are large pieces. Raw salmon is extremely rich.

What is on the salmon?

This is why rich people don't get fat

What did other people have?

Nothing worse than getting the “quality over quantity” meal when everyone else has a burger to due for or the most amazing salad. You literally have to play with your food so you don’t look like a greedy mare scoffing it down in 5 minutes.

god what is it with people ribbing the plate? It's a really standard stoneware style, rustic finish, it doesn't look dirty at all.

I’d lay odds that based on the presentation of the dish, the menu description would have been quite flowery, which was obviously inaccessible language to the OP

Lovely that you've given her a hearty side order of condescension though.

It's ridiculous, it is not a main.

I have had bigger portions in tasting menus in Michelin star restaurants!

It's not posh, or Michelin star, it's pretentious tosh.

Yy to it likely being sushi grade salmon. This plate looks really standard for a nice restaurant although it's probably intended more as a starter or light dish included as one of several in a full meal.

I just about spend that on my weekly shop, and I eat well rounded meals.

the menu description would have been quite flowery, which was obviously inaccessible language to the OP who has been left disappointed due to the misunderstanding of what they were ordering.

give me strength

I am giving this all too much head space and have decided that it needs a green salad on the side and some home made crusty bread and real butter.