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

[sinkorswimss]

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

Well it is nice otherwise I wouldn't go
It's a cheap area to live in

That menu does not look like it comes from a nice pub. It looks pretty dodgy and I would avoid it.

Most mains are that price now.
I'm in the southeast and one cafe in town wanted over 12 pounds for a full English breakfast
Found somewhere a bit cheaper , but they have put their prices up too
Haven't had a Sunday roast out since before lockdown, but I imagine it's going to be pricy everywhere.

The only kind of Sunday roast I'd expect to see for a tenner would be a pre-prepared frozen one with everything just reheated - pre-sliced meat bought in, frozen roast potatoes and veg, instant gravy.

A proper, made from scratch Sunday roast would be £18-20 here (Manchester area). Places might do set menu offers though, like £25 for two courses or three at a pinch.

Generally if they need to put pics of the food on the menu it’s a lower end place.

Pub down the road does Sunday lunch for £12.00. It's actually very decent, but it's very much a working mans pub.

We can go 20 mins down the road and pay £20 for a more upmarket experience.

£20 sounds super cheap to me. £10 is a McDonalds meal delivered and insanely cheap for a good roast.

Im from middle England and its £13.95 for a Sunday roast in a non chain nice pub

That's pretty standard pricing here, and rarely worth the money. I make better at home so it feels like I'm basically paying for the luxury of not having to wash up.

The roast in question...
It's honestly lovely
Each to their own tho I guess

Think that’s pretty standard. I would expect good meat for that though.

£20 is super expensive for a roast where I am, and not a particularly cheap place to live. No wonder everyone is complaining about cost of living, I'm a bit shocked!

I think maybe some of us have different standards of ‘nice’.

You'd be hard pushed to get a breakfast for less than a tenner where I am so that sounds reasonable to me.

Standard here - NW

It's fine. The local carvery to me is about £10 mid week. I got a too good to go bag from them for £3.29 and it was lovely, did 2 meals

So obviously my shock at the menu for £19.95 each
So with two drinks around £60
What are you drinking?!

Round here £20 is good for a Sunday roast. And cut down on the booze you'll save loads

@veryfluffyfluff couple of nice cocktails

I just checked it’s 18 quid for a roast in my village local. I think you just live in a lower cost place.

that roast just looks like burnt sausages, a massive Yorkshire and some over done veggies, thr meat is buried under dark gravy and can’t be seen in terms of how it’s cooked, I’d say that was quantity over quality.

That definitely wouldn't be considered excessive where I live, not that I have had Sunday lunch out for a while. £10 would get you more of a snack lunch here.

Have something else then. Something cheaper. Can't believe you baulk at the cost of the meal then spend a fortune on cocktails

@sinkorswimss Babucho is a good lunch at a good price. But you’re in the City Centre you can’t compare prices with a pub in Redcar. Having said that I don’t know anywhere with a Sunday Roast for a tenner.

If you like it OP then fill your boots.

But realistically, if you want staff paid fairly, good quality ingredients, fresh ingredients (not frozen or prepped), meals cooked fresh to order (not microwaved or reheated), and you expect to pay £10, then you're going to have to accept that at least one or more of those criteria is not going to be met.

Pubs can't make money at that rate unless they're cutting a corner somewhere.

That's a bit more expensive than where I am. We usually pay £15-18 for a roast. I'm in an expensive part of the North West, but I'm thinking of rural pub Sunday lunch so maybe that's the difference if this is a city centre restaurant.

I'm south west wales and I've not seen a roast for £20 + . That's expensive for around here . They tend to average around £14-£17 here and that's including the posh pubs . All homemade , fresh veg etc