Would you eat at a restaurant that didn't serve alcohol?

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If a restaurant served only soft drinks and alcohol-free beers/wines/cocktails would you eat there on an evening? Even on a Friday/Saturday night. No BYOB either.

YABU - Yes, I would eat there even on a weekend night.
YANBU - No, I wouldn't eat there on an evening.

Absolutely. I don’t approve of alcohol anyway so it would be a much better environment.

@MrsArchchancellorRidcully

God no. A decent meal without alcohol is boring. When wales banned alcohol we didn't go out at all.

What a shame that you can’t enjoy a meal without alcohol. I pity you.

I'd happily eat in a restaurant that doesn't serve alcohol, however I'd never go back if the coffee was rubbish. We've been to some places where the food was lovely but when we've got to the coffee it's been a total letdown and I think 'ah so close, so close'

It would depend on the type of restaurant- if it was a smart restaurant I was going to for a special meal I would want a glass of wine.

If it was the type of place I'd go for lunch, I wouldn't be bothered.

Even if you went to the restaurant you can always go to a wine bar afterwards or get a bottle for home if you really need it. 🤷🏽‍♀️

But why would you faff about doing that when you could just go to a restaurant with a licence?

What a shame that you can’t enjoy a meal without alcohol. I pity you.

What a shame you have to be so smug and patronising.

Even if you went to the restaurant you can always go to a wine bar afterwards or get a bottle for home if you really need it

It isn’t about ‘needing’ it.

And drinking afterwards removes the pleasure of drinking a wine that perfectly goes with the food. A good glass of wine with the right food is greater than the sun if the parts.

It isn’t always the alcohol that is the point of drinking in a restaurant.

Would I pay to eat a Michelin started place and ‘wash it down’ with coca cola? No way.

Only if there for lunch between Tuesday and Thursday !

I’d happily go…and do. Our favourite Lebanese is soft drinks only. We’re going for the food not the drinks. And their chai latte is amazing

@WomanStanleyWoman

Even if you went to the restaurant you can always go to a wine bar afterwards or get a bottle for home if you really need it. 🤷🏽‍♀️

But why would you faff about doing that when you could just go to a restaurant with a licence?

Absolutely, and any restaurant without an alcohol license is likely to be fairly shit, no matter whether you want to take advantage of the license or not. The only ones I can think of are essentially takeaways with some tables!

Only if there for lunch between Tuesday and Thursday !

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Absolutely, and any restaurant without an alcohol license is likely to be fairly shit,

@MurielSpriggs Is it? Why? What’s the correlation there?

Absolutely, and any restaurant without an alcohol license is likely to be fairly shit, no matter whether you want to take advantage of the license or not.

Err, why is that, exactly?

Huh? I take it you don’t live in a big metropolitan city then?

There’s plenty of unlicensed restaurants here (Birmingham) and lots of them are very very good.

@GodIsAVegan

Of course. If it’s an issue to have a meal without alcohol, you might have a problem.

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Of course it wouldn’t put me off a restaurant.

I love wine with a meal. My twice yearly visit to my favourite restaurant in Troyes, where I always order blanquette de veau with a carafe of white burgundy are probably my two favourite evenings of the year.

But if I’d chosen only restaurants serving booze I’d have missed out on some of the best meals of my life. Grilled fish overlooking the sea in Essouira, crunchy falafel down a back alley in Jerusalem, every meal at an amazing Persian restaurant in north London. Each perfect, accompanied by glass of water.

I do feel sorry for the eating experiences fellow greeders are missing out on if they limit themselves only to boozy spots.

There are people in the world who don't drink for reasons of sobriety, allergic to alcohol, fath and much more.

As a sober member of a 12 step program I don't drink and haven't for 18 and a half years. There are millions of us worldwide who don't.

People who have no addiction problems don't always want to drink and prefer "dry bars" of which rheew are many around the U.K.

People who have youngsters may not want to drink. Me I was a binge drinker and knew it had to go.

There are alot of dry bars/restaurants in the U.K though mainly in the big cities.

People who think it's wrong and bizarre perhaps need to look at there own drinking patterns just as and millions of us have had too

www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/society/2014/mar/21/dry-bars-is-england-sobering-up

People who think it's wrong and bizarre

I don't think anyone is saying it's wrong or bizarre

Bleachmycloths

Do you understand what ‘might’ means? Read the rest of my posts. For some people not being willing to go to a restaurant that serves alcohol is a sign of an issue. Like my relative, if you actually bother to read my posts. For others it’s not. Hence my sentence saying ‘might’ have an problem.

So you can pull your eyes back down to their normal position now. 🤡

No, not in the evening.

Possibly lunch time I might, but I rarely eat out at lunchtime.

Wine is part of an evening meal for me.

@TheLightSideOfTheMoon

My favourite restaurant doesn’t do dessert.

I’m generally too full to care.

You're not the only one. I love a local Chinese restaurant (outstanding food) and just don't care that there's no pudding option!

Err, why is that, exactly?

Well it depends on cuisine. Middle Eastern, Pakistani, Afghan restaurant, if dry, would have no bearing on quality

But it would be vanishingly rare to find a high quality French, Italian, Spanish, Argentinian restaurant that doesn't serve alcohol, as all of these cuisines take food/wine pairings seriously.

If there were good drinks, good coffee, fresh juices and so on, I wouldn't want soda.

@JoshLymanIsHotterThanSam

Huh? I take it you don’t live in a big metropolitan city then?

There’s plenty of unlicensed restaurants here (Birmingham) and lots of them are very very good.

I’m also from Birmingham and I know of lots of great restaurants that don’t sell alcohol - but they’re all BYOB. I understand that another poster had suggested that restaurants without licences are universally rubbish, and I also disagree with that, but I think it’s a bit disingenuous to suggest these places are packed out despite the lack of alcohol. More likely it’s because of the option to take your own cheap alcohol!