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Burnt Shallot & Green Peppercorn Tarte Tatin, Hispi Cabbage & Mustard Vinaigrette VG GF 17.5
Woke virtue signallers the lot of them! Are they hoping we won't notice it's expensive? Is it like pricing things at 9.99?
They can stick a zero on the end of those .5's while they're at it.
Harumph
Leave 17.5 Bratislavan groats, that'll learn 'em
I'd order then pay in some odd currency that gets several hundred something's to the pound...17.5 something's is more palatable than 17.50 pounds!
I’m a colouring-in type and printer - hardly anyone puts £ signs on their menus anymore! So 1990s! 🙂
The steak is 21!
I wonder if the absence of a currency symbol means you could argue in court that they should be obliged to accept 21 Turkish lira or Dogecoin?
Ah- I see others have made the same point first
Woke bastids.
Yup add it to the cross thread. Tossers.
Hispi cabbage is worth 4 all day long
And Why Do They Use Camel Case For Their Descriptions?
Sounds alright ,where is this?
Pretentiousness. Pure and simple.
It ain't big and it ain't clever.
£21 for a steak - bargain!!
Going out for a meal has become less and less fun as I've got older.
When me and the missus were first together in Cambridge in the late 90s there was a BYO Indian down Mill Rd we went to once a week with a bottle of cheap Cab and it was three courses of whatever they had for whatever we had and they were some of the best meals I ever ate looked after by the funniest waiters I ever badly tipped.
These days its missing pound signs, missing gluten and missing the point most of the time. A meal out should be fun, tasty and relaxed and its harder and harder to find that, Occasionally you stumble across it but 90% of meals out are a disappointment to me - £100 (sorry 100-) plus a mandatory service charge for some souped up pub food surrounded by people driving Audi S-Lines and new Defenders just doesn't do it for us.
Time stamp at 2 minutes from the ever reliable Sandi Toksvig and the QI elves
"This sandwich will **** you off" ?.
Top bombing
@llama - this is Lucky Strike in Bristol. I've never been so don't know if it's any good!
Vegan and gluten free too!
No theres no £ sign because VGGF is the currency - Venezolano Golden Guyana Fenig.
At the current exchange rate your tart comes in at a very reasonable £1.75. It would be more normally, but they burnt it
some souped up pub food surrounded by people driving Audi S-Lines and new Defenders
Are you eating dinner in a traffic jam?
100 (sorry 100-) plus a mandatory service charge for some souped up pub food surrounded by people driving Audi S-Lines and new Defenders just doesn’t do it for us.
This sounds a lot like my experiences of eating out in the Dorking area, where my MiL lives.
Here in Bristol, you're much more likely to be ordering small plates where you don't really know what it's going to be, drinking orange wine at £11 a glass and be surrounded by people who own electric cargo bikes. I prefer it that way tbf
Going out for a meal has become less and less fun as I’ve got older.
You are Victor Meldrew AICMFP
Try going out for a meal around leith! 25+ restaurants - if you serve overpriced rubbish you will go bust and some do. I love eating out. I have a choice from Michelin starred to good pub grub with everything in between withing a few hundred metres of my flat
Good food should be expensive - it uses expensive ingredients and it takes a lot of time care and love to make and the staff deserve decent pay. Mind you we do also have a couple of chains if you want mediocre cheap food prepared by underpaid staff
Mmmm - making me hungry now.
@tj, I'm thinking of heading your way in the next month or so. Do you have any recommendations for a decent meal?
What sort of food?
Budget?
ship on the shore for great seafood. Kings wark for good pub grub. They are the two I usually use Fishers and Shore bar are worth a visit as well. Not been in teuchtars landing for while - that got a good rep. roseleaf does a good burger
gies a shout when you are up
If a lack of pound signs is all you've got to be angry about in this world, then I envy you (but I also don't 'cos it's really petty). Your typographic choices may be different and that's OK (assuming you're not a professional crayoner in which case you should know better).
I think "angry" might be an exaggeration. It certainly seems a bit odd as it is a practice which appears to be unique to the restaurant industry. And the more expensive the restaurant the more shy they seem to be about using the £ prefix.
It does seem rather odd
No £ signs on a menu? What about the blood pressure raising, bile boiling lack of capitalisation in thread titles?
Oi! One hill to die on at a time, laddie...start a new thread about capitalisation in threads!!!
Try going out for a meal around leith! 25+ restaurants – if you serve overpriced rubbish you will go bust and some do. I love eating out. I have a choice from Michelin starred to good pub grub with everything in between withing a few hundred metres of my flat
Good food should be expensive – it uses expensive ingredients and it takes a lot of time care and love to make and the staff deserve decent pay. Mind you we do also have a couple of chains if you want mediocre cheap food prepared by underpaid staff
Mmmm – making me hungry now.
I generally agree although i think your choices in your next post are a bit boring.
I actually find Winstons post really weird, its way more relaxed now, food is normally better and the choice is wider tha its ever been?!
Agree about price aswell.
As my old maths teacher used to say, ‘units’!
I'd rather have the £ symbol left off than put after the number like some deviants do.
The restaurants Winson misses still exist - they've just moved, and have a different name. So you need to go work out where it is now, not 25 years ago
And the more expensive the restaurant the more shy they seem to be about using the £ prefix.
The more expensive the restaurant, the less likely they are to even list the price…
although i think your choices in your next post are a bit boring.
Ooooohhhhhh
Just 'cos I is a pensioner doesn't mean I am boring - does it? I shall have to go and have a nap and think about this 🙁
Just ‘cos I is a pensioner doesn’t mean I am boring – does it? I shall have to go and have a nap and think about this 🙁
Not at all. No objection to the quality of your choices but thy all kinda fit in a barrow quisine.
I'll add Vietnam House, Mother India, El Cartel and Marys Milk bar for icecream to the list
The more expensive the restaurant, the less likely they are to even list the price… on the ladies menu
#keepingupstandardsisimportantorsomething
It's commonplace in the US, often dropping the cents also which is even odder. "Budweiser 6." It took me a beat to realise that they were actually prices.
I wonder if the absence of a currency symbol means you could argue in court that they should be obliged to accept 21 Turkish lira or Dogecoin?
They aren't obliged to accept anything. If they wanted, they could request payment in carpet and refuse service otherwise.
As my old maths teacher used to say, ‘units’!
Same. "12 what, giraffes?"
Fair enough Josh - they are not round my way tho 🙂 leith is short of non European restaurants and a decent veggie place
Well in that case they can get even further into the sea!
If they wanted, they could request payment in carpet and refuse service otherwise.
That'd be an unexpected twist.
I’d be floored if I saw that in a restaurant
Paying for a meal with a shag?
Im sure there’s films about that.
They aren’t obliged to accept anything. If they wanted, they could request payment in carpet and refuse service otherwise.
I'm not sure thats true. In a shop it is but on the assumption you have already eaten the food you are technically in debt to the supplier? So at some point they would have to accept settlement, at which point you break out the coppers?
Its left wing doctrine and only woke numpties pay.
the more expensive the restaurant the more shy they seem to be about using the £ prefix
some don’t even put prices at all.
...but it looks like I can't upload an image today.
Finally! Thanks for the tutorial @kayak23
That’ll be a tasting menu, the price will be for the full menu, listed elsewhere.
some don’t even put prices at all.
That only concerns menus presented to the laydees. You would know that if you frequented polite society.
The geezer gets all the full eye-watering prices in his menu. He then has to calculate how to gently suggest options which he can afford, or else figure out a way to do a runner.
Surely, if one has to ask.....
one can't afford it.
I’m not sure thats true. In a shop it is but on the assumption you have already eaten the food you are technically in debt to the supplier? So at some point they would have to accept settlement, at which point you break out the coppers?
Now the police are involved?- this has escalated quickly!
The geezer gets all the full eye-watering prices in his menu.
The person who makes the booking gets the menu with the prices on.
Legally, if you offer to pay them with “17.5 big ones”, and they accept, then t they’re contractually bound to accept 17.5 big ones.
Baps?
that’ll do nicely!
That’ll be a tasting menu, the price will be for the full menu, listed elsewhere
you don’t say? ?
I added that one just because of the potential to go from the sublime premise of the thread to the ridiculous ‘but that menu has no prices at all’. Indeed it is a tasting menu for which the price was fixed and agreed beforehand.
Just out of interest, if you ordered, and ate, in a restaurant with no prices on the menu, what would be the legal position if you refused to pay when they presented you with the bill?
“Organic smash burger and skin-on chunky chips, Ten”. GTF
Incidentally,
When did "skin-on" become a feature? "Just like regular chips, only we couldn't be ringed to peel them first."
I’m not sure thats true. In a shop it is but on the assumption you have already eaten the food you are technically in debt to the supplier? So at some point they would have to accept settlement, at which point you break out the coppers?
You make an interesting point.
A retail transaction is a legal contract of sale, heavily short-cutted for convenience. In purchasing a meal, the restaurant is inviting you to sample a given dish in exchange for a stated remuneration. In ordering you are implicitly accepting their terms, to wit you're happy with giving them money and the price is acceptable. Then in providing the food, the restaurant is implicitly accepting your offer.
Does it become a debt once you've consumed the meal? That I'm less sure of. If you buy a Mars bar from the corner shop then the situation doesn't change depending on whether you've eaten it or not. Does it? It's harder to back out of the sale I suppose...
Just out of interest, if you ordered, and ate, in a restaurant with no prices on the menu, what would be the legal position if you refused to pay when they presented you with the bill?
Also an interesting question.
My cod legalese would want to side with the consumer here. A retailer (shop, restaurant, whatever) is surely obliged to inform their customers of pricing ahead of purchase. Otherwise they could charge £2,000 for a bag of chips and go "surprise!" after you'd eaten them.
This is broadly how consumer law works. Companies must be transparent about fees. Like, it's OK to charge a customer for return postage of an unwanted item, but ONLY if the customer is made aware of this charge ahead of purchase. A restaurant has to be similar I'd have thought? The "invitation to treat" explains what they're offering and what they require in return, in keeping prices secret that initial step of the transaction falls flat so there is no Contract Of Sale in place.
I think.
I don’t get the issue. What currency do y’all think the prices are written in?
This is exactly it - it's literally impossible to know! And then when you offer to pay in Venezualan pesos, the waitress rolls her eyes and tells you to stop being a smartarse! You just can't win.
The wife had booked us in to a hotel for a couple of days next month, had a look at the menu and the lazy gits have done this, just put a number next to the item, lazy sods. We have cancelled and booked somewhere they can write the price properly.
Maybe they’re just rejecting using a symbol of European origin.