To hate the trend of places piling plates with food?

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Just been for Sunday dinner and it was lovely but the portions are just ridiculous. Yorkshire puddings plonked on top of a mound of meat. I hate it, it means you can’t cut the yorkshires up properly and can’t get to the veg and you’re battling with everything not spilling off the plate.

Same as ordering a burger and getting it so thick you can’t get your mouth round it. I just want one burger in a bun with maybe cheese and tomato/onion/lettuce, and be able to pick it up and bite it without everything sliding out or having to dismantle it first.

If anything I find that portion sizes are getting smaller so plates are not piled as high.

What annoys me is the use of long narrow plates rather than a normal round one. A few places around here use them and it is impossible to balance Your knife and fork on them or else found is served in wide bowls.

I would happily eat somewhere where they’re making the portions smaller at the moment. Maybe all the pubs round here are competing to get as much food as possible piled on a plate. Although at least they’re using plates and the trend for serving food on slates/boards/shovels seems to be over.

I could make my peace with the bowl. I hate it when the plates have no lip.

Our local pub prides itself on everyone taking a huge doggy bag home with them

The bins out of sight of the pub are regularly full to overflowing with them

Possibly because I have no shame, I see it as s takeout second portion - I always bring my tupperware.

I hate this too, especially with burgers which have about four different boujie sauces on which just makes them wet and slippery. They do not taste as good with a knife and fork and wet bread

oh that is depressing @SamphiretheTervosaur

I have also experienced ordering a roast and it arriving assembled into a tower with the Yorkies balanced on top. When this has happened to me, I felt I got the same amount of food, just assembled into a much less appetising and more difficult to eat format.

I assume this is a social media thing. If they do something weird with the food, people might be more likely to take a photo and post it somewhere.

I just want a normal roast.

I agree with @purplecorkheart , portions at the pubs near me are sadly smaller than they used to be - two thin slivers of meat, two roast potatoes, two slender carrots, and some cabbage, topped with a Yorkshire pudding so large as to disguise the vast expanse of empty plate.

We find portion sizes huge, just massive. And frequently see plates left around us by other diners with food on, so its not just us.

I think ultimately, while it appears not to make business sense, pubs and restaurants load plates with cheap carby bits of the meal (chips, yorkies, bread etc) so it looks a lot of food, so you're inclined to think its good value for money, but its not really because meals are now like 20 quid for a basic fish and chips or 25 quid for a roast.

We order a starter each and find thats enough now.

I do take my tupperware also, like someone else said. Took home much of a quiche yesterday.

I cant stand it when they only give 4 potatoes, a few peas and carrots. Ergh, so stingy. No I want it piled on. I dont want to see the white of my plate.

A cafe near me are making these gigantic cookie burgers now! I have quite a hearty appetite, but I have no idea how anyone could eat this.

I'm finding it less and less appealing to out for food tbh. I agree about the piled plates but also not options if you want just a normal sized lunch that isn't 2000kcal.

They're compensating for the food being of indifferent quality by trying to wow customers with enormous portions. They've clearly never heard the maxim "always stop while they're asking for more".

Nope not near me. Portions are smaller than they've ever been.

I'd rather have less but better quality, and no I don't want your gravy which looks like self-leveling floor compound.

I'd give that a crack, is probably feel sick halfway through and have to stop, but I'd give it a go

Yes - I was looking at the menu for a nearby pub restaurant - due to go with family - nothing less than 1200 calories for a main - that's almost my whole TDEE in one meal and nothing remotely worth wasting all that on - crappy burgers etc.. Ended up having a 500 calorie dessert on its own 😆

Over here all portions seem to be for starving rugby players. I am 5ft 8 and enjoy eating but I can't remember the last time I finished a meal when eating out. I am beginning to find it off-putting to be honest.

I tend to find shrinkflation in restaurants these days or the price has gone up a lot.

Even in the US, the portions ain’t what they used to be.

Just ask for an extra plate to sort your dinner out on.

Personally I don't mind a pile of food and love a Scooby burger - it's a challenge! And you don't have to eat it all. Though in the US it can be rather a ridiculous waste when they give you a month's supply of pastrami for a family of four in one sandwich.

I ate three courses today in a restaurant but it was a nicely balanced set menu. Couldn't do that in a pub.

I appreciate a little room on my plate to shuffle things around! Some restaurants have notoriously large servings, and I have no shame in asking for a take out container at the end of a dinner.

At home I tend to eat veg, carb, then protein in that order, and don't like them touching. Always have, and don't really consider myself ocd.

I can’t stand it when the burger is way bigger than the bun it’s in and it starts to disintegrate halfway through.