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

£22.50 for roast beef in my local pub
£4 for cauliflower cheese and £5 for PIBs.

£12.99 for Toby carvery.

One of the nicest roasts near me is £14.50-£15.50, depending on what meat you have, but most of the pubs are close on £20 now.

I took my DIL our for lunch in the nearest big town a few weeks, the roasts were £19.95 and they were crap compared with the local one.

Drinks were expensive, too - they charged £4.50 for a half-pint of lime and soda for DGD. That makes it more expensive than best bitter!

The service was shite, too, and you had to pay for parking.

a 'fact' that lower-end places put pictures? 😂ok then.

A carvery is £10.95 per person here - £19.95 seems extortionate to me

£12-14 here. I paid £28 for Sunday lunch in Gordon Ramsey's restaurant in London

We’re in the NEW and here you won’t get much change out of £30 for a chippy meal, so less than £40 for a sit down Sunday lunch seems reasonable.

Bloody autocorrect that should be NW.

Yep. And it's cheap for a reason.

Lincolnshire gastro pub in next village, cut and paste from their website:

book your table online. Our Carvery comprises 2 Roast Meats and Chicken Fillet every week. Our Carvery Chef will carve your meat for you and you help yourself to all the trimmimgs! Main Course £12.95All of these served with all the usual trimmings. Roasties, Mash, Yorkshire Puds, Fresh local vegetables and homemade gravy.
Eat in and add a homemade dessert or starter for just £4. OR HAVE ALL 3 COURSES from £20.95!
BOOK YOUR TABLE TODAY
Give us a call for yours. Served every Sunday 12 to 3pm

£9.95 where I live, 3 choices of meat and all you can pile on veg and yorkies 👌

I’m still getting over a pizza in pizza express costing £16 but that does sound expensive for Newcastle which I’ve always considered to be fairly cheap.
ive just checked and Sunday lunch at my local gastro pub type place is 2 courses for £22 or 3 for £27.

The places you are looking at are at the top end of ordinary pubs prices in Newcastle city centre, there is loads more choice but you need to look.

Comparing these places with your local in Redcar is chalk and cheese.

My local shop was charging £4.10 for a packet of caramel squares today.
I literally exclaimed ‘F*ck me pink’! in the middle of the shop!

You pay upwards of £20 most places where I live. A lot of them aren't worth it either.

There's a pub here that's just relaunched its Sunday lunch offer for £13.95 and my first thought was "gosh that's cheap".

Have you bought lunch for £10 recently? Prices have increased so much in the last couple of years. Nothing costs what I think it costs anymore, unless I buy it regularly.

It depends where in Newcastle you are going? If you want I could probably recommend some places nearer your price range.

I've just seen the places you are looking at, and yes they are higher-end places. There are cheaper options in the city centre though.

Carveries are cheaper here. There are two I know of. One of them is now very seedy but used to be good value when it opened.

The other is reasonable but you need to go at a fairly busy time when there will be stuff fresh from the kitchen, not shrivelled on the counter.

They tempt people wanting to pile the plate high. Mostly families but also people with demanding physical jobs. Neither is remotely smart.

I'm a chef in an independent pub kitchen in Suffolk. We sell a 3 course roast dinner for £24.95. All made from scratch and we're fully booked most weekends. I think for one course that's probably pretty standard?

I'm in Nottingham, and a Sunday roast is generally £16

£20/head for a good meal sounds like a bargain to me. I live in rural east anglia where people often can't afford to go on holiday, hardly posh 'round 'ere.

I live in West Yorkshire and wouldn't bat a eyelid at this.

That menu does not like a 'nice' pub, the starters are from the 1970s!
Who on earth serves potato wedges as a starter ?

Looking at the menu you can chose cheaper options. It looks normal prices for a Sunday lunch

It's a lovely resturant... I had Sunday lunch there the other week and it was delicious. Its not a run of the mill pub