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

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sinkorswimss · 05/07/2023 13:57

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

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Mylefttoe · 05/07/2023 14:47

Is there such a thing as a nice pub roast at ANY price point? I will never choose one as the meat is always overcooked and dried out, masked with cheap gravy. Veg are grey and wilting and roasties soggy.

Maybe I have just been unlucky all my life.

MrsTerryPratchett · 05/07/2023 14:47

Posters keep talking about the cost of the meat. But t's all about the overhead. the same quality in a city centre is going to cost vastly more in staff wages, rent, advertising, everything, than a small place in a cheap town. The meal could be exactly the same.

Irequireausername · 05/07/2023 14:50

Even if you pay £20+, it's rarely any better. In fact, i've had jarred mint sauce dolloped on mine and it was the most expensive sunday dinner around.

BernadetteRostankowskiWolowitz · 05/07/2023 14:50

You could get a cheaper Sunday roast (£10 at Sambuccas on the Quayside, and similar price at Unos) but they are very much cheap and cheerful family friendly places, where as the places you've listed are more what I'd go to without the kids on a girls day out, which I'd expect to pay a lot more for.

BernadetteRostankowskiWolowitz · 05/07/2023 14:51

And sambuccas/unos will be home cooked but very simple and possibly bland.

JudgeRudy · 05/07/2023 14:52

East Midlands here....around £15 for cheap gastro pub....£25 ish for somewhere you might go on a date.

bellac11 · 05/07/2023 14:52

sinkorswimss · 05/07/2023 14:02

No this is £10 at nice pub near me
All home cooked and fresh veg etc
I don't like Toby

Whats the name of the pub

Whichwhatnow · 05/07/2023 14:53

The places I go to are usually around the £12-15 mark (this is for a good quality roast in a nice independent pub). Maybe a bit more for beef/lamb and a bit less for veggie. I would say that any more expensive would be unusual and I wouldn't pay that much tbh.

I ended up going to a Greene King pub with a friend who is a bit skint a while back and the roast was £7.99!! But it was...to be polite...not great haha. Cheap pre-sliced meat and no stuffing/yorkies etc.

This is Bristol.

Gymtastic · 05/07/2023 14:53

I think it’s about more than the cost of ingredients , Redcar has the highest level of deprivation in the whole of Teesside, so you’d expect low cost pub lunches and a lot of food for it, as if they changed higher prices, for less and better quality ingredients , they would not get the punters in, and go out of business.

i just read the stat, over a third of households have some form of deprivation, which is really high, so really I think it’s about the target market.

LorraineInSpain · 05/07/2023 14:55

Prices do seem to have gone up recently. A place near me (SE) used to do the best roast ever for £17.95 a head (main only). It’s now a minimum of two courses for £32.95. Still the best roast ever, but too expensive (and two courses is way too much food there)

userxx · 05/07/2023 14:56

Mylefttoe · 05/07/2023 14:47

Is there such a thing as a nice pub roast at ANY price point? I will never choose one as the meat is always overcooked and dried out, masked with cheap gravy. Veg are grey and wilting and roasties soggy.

Maybe I have just been unlucky all my life.

I agree, they are shit. Not had a decent one for years.

Flickersy · 05/07/2023 14:59

bellac11 · 05/07/2023 14:52

Whats the name of the pub

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It's not a pub, it's appears to be a hotel / working men's club / sports bar. OP doesn't want to name it but if you Google Redcar Sunday lunch delivery you'll find it.

Nordicrain · 05/07/2023 15:04

sunshineandshowers40 · 05/07/2023 13:58

Completely normal where I am (SE).

Me too. 5 years ago I would have agreed with you, but not now.

EffortlessDesmond · 05/07/2023 15:07

I would call that cheap! Last weekend's Sunday lunch in Wales was £23.50 for two courses.

GeorgeMichaelsCat · 05/07/2023 15:07

Flickersy · 05/07/2023 14:10

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?

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Alcohol I assume.

GrinAndVomit · 05/07/2023 15:09

I’ve also noticed a huge increase in restaurant and cafe prices.
I don’t think they have any other option with the rises in minimum wage, utilities and rent etc. though.

dottiedodah · 05/07/2023 15:13

This is normal here Im afraid(affluent town SC) lovely little pub nearby.Nice food but not huge portions either !

mrsbyers · 05/07/2023 15:14

There’s loads of places in Newcastle where you’d get a roast for £10 I guess you’re looking at somewhere more fancy than Redcar ? Same with Italians

ThisIsACoolUserName · 05/07/2023 15:14

Well I paid £18 for a scrawny caesar salad this week. So that sounds about right for roast.

User9753224 · 05/07/2023 15:15

Mushroo · 05/07/2023 14:00

@sinkorswimss i can imagine the shock! Where do you live?! The past?

I need to go

😂

lalaloopyhead · 05/07/2023 15:15

I am in East Midlands and had a look at a few places out of interest (I can't remember that last time I actually went out for a Sunday Roast).
A nice pub in town is £16/17 depending on meat. A nice country lakes locations is £14.25 and a nearby village pub is £20 for two courses.

What kinds of place are you looking at OP?

ifonlyicouldthinkstraight · 05/07/2023 15:18

Our local pub used to do Sunday roast for £9-10 not long ago. It was nothing fancy but fine for the price. Proper veg, yorkie etc. It's gone up to £12-14 so is still cheap compared to some places. I'd say £15-18 is common and for £20+ I'd expect much better quality and some 'refined' touches. (Midlands)

ThereIbledit · 05/07/2023 15:20

Restaurant overheads have gone up a frighteining amount in the last year.

NewNovember · 05/07/2023 15:21

bellac11 · 05/07/2023 14:52

Whats the name of the pub

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Missed out replying to you sorry
https://www.ogradysredcar.co.uk/sunday-lunch

Sunday Lunch — O'Gradys Hotel, Ale House Restaurant

https://www.ogradysredcar.co.uk/sunday-lunch