Fantastic and Superb Roast… Really?!

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Also it costs £31.

Main things that are wrong with it -

peas have no place on a roast.
Yorkshire fits very neatly on plate meaning it’s obviously tiny.
There is one measly potato and I think it’s cooked the way a lot of places try and get away with now- ie not roasted at all but a big boiled potato lobbed in a fryer.
The meat sounds nice but sounds like you run the risk of having a big fatty bit what with it being sirloin.

Again, £31 😅

I think roasts in general in restaurants and pubs have really gone down the pan (pun intended 🤣) and the cost is eye watering. I can cook a decent one at home anyway but used to love a good roast in a pub on a lazy Sunday afternoon with a decent red and no need to scrub the pits afterwards (pipe dream post kids anyway)

I used to work in a pub kitchen in my teens and it was done properly then- HUGE cauldron of gravy bubbling away, melt in the mouth beef or pork with a proper cracking, and potatoes roasted in huge vats of bubbling dripping. Whatever veg was seasonal and Yorkshire puddings the size of your face. No one seems to do it like this anymore!

It looks like it should be a tenner at Spoons, I'd eat it then -after many cheap gin and tonics--

Looks a very poor show, I thought that was a dollop of mash potato.

While a 'home cooked' roast, to me should include either/both....
cabbage/brussels I'd not say what and what shouldn't be included in someone else's roasted dinner, but I'll make an exception and say foliage should definitely not be included, and I'm sure I see it on this plate.

Yeah this is the bit I can’t understand, it’s literally being photographed under the banner of ‘the best roast in London’ and it looks like that?! (It was Harper’s Bazzar btw that made the claim, probably just because the restaurant is buzzy and wanky)

Impressive to have a Yorkshire pudding that looks both burnt and soggy. It's terrible presentation and there should be at least three roast potatoes. They usually serve it with roast squash as well as the carrots. Personally I prefer mashed swede or a roast parsnip and then something like sprouts, Savoy cabbage or another dark green veg.

I love fine dining and I love a Sunday roast and I think the two should be kept apart.

Bloody hell.

Is this a really posh spot?

I'm in another country, that one meal and one bottle of wine works out the same as what I spent on my basic groceries yesterday, to last 2 weeks.

And who ever just has one potato?

I have more than two vegetables when I'm cooking at home for myself!

I wouldn’t pay £31.00 for it! It looks like a slightly elevated Bird’s Eye Microwave roast dinner.

one potato. £31. No thanks.

(I like peas)

I've just looked at the website. You can BYO for a £25 per bottle corkage fee. Cakeage £15 per cake. Are these fees typical?

The pictures of this roast on their website look equally unappetising. It looks like other vegetables are available as side dishes at an extra charge but peas and carrots only for the menu price of the roast. What mean spirited bastards.

Spoons used to do brilliant Sunday dinners - at least in terms of what they cost. Shame they stopped doing them.

Sorry - does that mean you pay them £25 so you can drink your bottle of Yellow Tail, meaning it costs more than their own wine? Who’s going to do that?

Such a shame! They won’t do anything now that can’t be assembled and brought out as fast as possible which is their MO- that’s why they’ve done away with the grills too.

No that’s nuts!!! So I’d buy a £7.50 bottle of Castilia Diablo but they’d charge a £25 corkage fee 🤣

I do go to a Thai place sometimes that charges corkage- at £6.

It’s been a while since I saw such blatent piss-takery in the service industry, what twats.

That needs reporting to the trades description act. I’m partial to a bit of horseradish but that’s about a whole jar they’ve dumped on the plate, probably to distract punters from the lack of meat and potatoes.

And £25 corkage!!! I’d rather get a Findus hungry man dinner than pay for that nonsense.

I hate those huge hard Yorkshire puddings. They’re just to make the meal look huge. They shatter when you cut them and it’s like eating cardboard. Mine are light fluffy and soft on the inside. I agree about the potatoes, they have that odd taste potatoes get when they’ve been boiled the previous day.

Details about cakeage and corkage just above where is says "well behaved dogs welcome" which is just above the second image.

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One potato is an insult. Loads more veg required here too, ideally including mashed swede. I don’t normally put peas on a roast but I love peas so don’t mind that. But yeah, that dinner isn’t worth £31 IMO.

This is why I am currently roasting a beef joint in my oven😂
I wouldn't mind paying for a fantastic and superb roast, but that picture really isn't it.

That’s just awful!!! An embarrassment to call it a roast, & a ridiculously large proportion of horseradish to meat is rather scary in my opinion🤣🤣

I've just looked at the menu. On Sundays the roast veg (potatoes and squash) and gravy that come with all roasts are bottomless. Veg side dishes £5 -£10.

Beetroot and red onion tarte tartin £28!

No corkage fees on Tuesdays! Wonder if they’d let me sit at the bar with a Tesco-purchased bottle of wine. I’d order a bag of posh crisps.

That is a crappy looking roast!
My local does a carvery that has..
Turkey, Beef, Gammon or Pork.
Beef dripping Roast potatoes.
Mash potatoes.
cauliflower cheese.
Carrots and peas.
Parsnips.
Suffing.
Homemade Yorkshire puddings.
Homemade gravy.
£18 and for an extra £3 you can have a slice of beef pie or 3 pigs in blankets.

Almost every single local pub will have a Sunday roast that looks and tastes a lot better than that and for less £. Even Wetherspoons too.

I’d eat everything served there usually, but that really doesn’t look appetising. Looks like it came as a ready meal.

£31 for raw meat, burnt Yorkshire, watery gravy, a dollop of mayo, no veg, 1 frozen roast potato … no thanks 😵‍💫😵‍💫

Mixed reviews on Tripadvisor. Definite complaints about small portions and high cost. Apparently you do get ‘bottomless veg’ but the portions of meat are tiny so it’s obviously a cost measure to bung a load of comparatively cheap veg at people and scrimp on the more expensive meat.