To the £19.95 each for a Sunday lunch is expensive?

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Going to Newcastle for the weekend
I'm from a small town and here you can get a Sunday lunch for around £10
So obviously my shock at the menu for £19.95 each
So with two drinks around £60
I just think it's daylight robbery

£10 for a roast? Where are you from? 2009?

When I hear about a £10 Sunday roast all I can wonder about is how poorly they're paying their staff, because you're not going to make much money otherwise. This is assuming you're actually cooking it and not bulk buying frozen prepared vegetables to microwave and getting your gravy from own-brand Bisto granules.

You can get a good roast dinner for £15 in Newcastle not sure about £10 though.

I’m just across the border from you op and you can get a nice fresh pub lunch for a tenner here too, but average ranges £10-16. I don’t think people understand what it’s like living in small towns in the north east!

Standard, unless it was maybe a Toby Carvery.

I’d question the quality of the ingredients and the wages for the workers if they are only charging £10. I don’t think I could even make a restaurant-worthy roast dinner for a tenner.

I wouldn’t want to eat the slop on a roast if it’s a tenner. Even TOby charges more then that.

anywhere from £18-£23 is standard in the nice pubs I go to.

Last time I checked the north east isn't exempt from the minimum wage, and doesn't get a discount on utilities or catering supplies.

So where is the profit margin coming from?

@Nanna50 do you recommend anywhere ? We have booked babucho -which is two courses for £20

Even the (what used to be) cheap and cheerful carvery near us in the SW is £14.95 on weekdays and £17.95 on sundays

@BernadetteRostankowskiWolowitz prima restaurant and pleased to meet you,we also looked at the botanist and the Hudson

Tell us where OP!

Please tell us we're this pub is we all need to visit

Aye but this will be made with meat pet, not whatever they've found in the ally behind the pub.

Very very normal round here (south london) I probs wouldn’t eat at somewhere where it’s less than £15 as likely not nice food

I'm south west and I'd say £10 is cheap and cheerful, £15 is standard/high, but I don't think I've ever seen a roast dinner hit the £20 mark. I think that's very expensive and I'd expect a very big, fancy meal for that price.

Not sure if I'm allowed to post the name so I've hid the name and just showing prices etc

You can get a lot of house for your money in Redcar.... tempting.

Are you kidding? Anything under £50 a head is long gone these days.

Its £12 at our Rugby club, platters of meat and veg served to your table and boxes to take the leftovers home.

I live in the south west.

Go to the nice country pubs and the roasts are always £20+

They are not big or fancy. Just decent food.

Dread to think what the meat is like for £10/head.
Our local pub is £25 for adult roast.

One slice?!

You can tell by the menu that is not what I would class as a nice pub.

That’s Toby Standard.

I’m in London - on Sundays my local pubs Sunday lunch is almost £27 - no drink!