Anyone else a regular?

OK I know it's all microwaved, but their Chicken Vindaloo is sublime - it actually has real chillis in it as well as being hotter than most indian restaurants prepare their Vindaloo by default.

Just 5 hours to wait...

I agree, is great value, but is it me or has their portions got smaller. Shame they stopped doing the Phaal, blew my socks off!!

I have never and will never eat in a Wetherspoons, I have seen the kitchens before

Surely you only need to check the microwaves?

A group of us used to go every week a few years back but I haven't had one for a couple of years. My mate still goes most weeks and he's like you. He loves the CTM and thinks it's better than proper restaurants/takeaways

I keep telling him he could nip to asda and get 2 for £5 frozen ones which are probably exactly the same

I'd love to agree, but every year or so I give ASDA another chance to see if they've actually started selling any edible ready meals.

Whilst 'spoons curry club meals are strictly speaking no different to a frozen ready meal; they are leagues apart from ASDA products in terms of taste / quality.

I wouldn't know. I haven't had a microwaved curry for ages. I made one from scratch the other night and it was lovely. Not sure what it was, it was meant to be sweet red pepper curry but I chucked a few more things in it but it turned out great. I reckon I could have charged a fiver for a portion with a can of fosters

Just spotted this headline at the top of the screen

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/odd/a160...rry-sauce.html


I guess Asda and Curry doesn't go together

ooooh, it was "Extra Special" curry sauce too...

You've seen the kitchen in every single Wetherspoons?

Wow.

As a student I worked in a Wetherspoons kitchen - well two in fact, we got moved around a bit. I walked out because I refused to alter the day dots on the food. Haven't been in one since.

Food doesn't go off just because there's a sticker on it telling it when to go off.

No, it doesn't. But taking a sticker off something like chicken when it's out of date and replacing it with another week's sticker is not my cup of tea.

Thanks for rolling your eyes though - I can tell by your comments on the Free range thread that you're really passionate about the quality of produce, so back at you

congrats on your 1000th by the way

Food is food at the end of the day, we used to live in caves, and our bodies are more than capable of dealing with the odd bit of gone off meat.

Or at least they were. In fact, it's potentially more of a problem that we're creating such a sterile environment when our bodies are designed to live in much worse.

Perhaps food is food to you, but I am really passionate about food and will not compromise on buying quality produce.

Each to their own. I just cannot stomach eating in a Wetherspoons after working in one!

Isn't it illegal too?

In all the kitchens I've worked in we've used date stickers, both best before ones and date decanted into container. We also did fridge temperature checks and had to sign sheets saying we'd emptied the bins. One potion of each batch of food prepared on the premises was frozen for 3 months in case of food poisoning cases etc. If they're changing the dates on produce you have to wonder what else they're doing really...

I'm not a "regular"; but we went there a few weeks ago and I ordered what I thought would be a relatively healthy curry--the Chickpea, Sweet Potato, and Spinach Curry. It tasted nice enough; but when I got home I looked on their website and found out that it had nearly 1000 calories in it!

My experience of a Wetherspoons Curry Club evening, some years ago in Surbiton.

It was so popular, we couldn't get a table for 2 weeks. On the 3rd week, we managed to bag a table. Up to the bar we went, asked for the curry and we were told "Sorry, curry night's off this evening".

"Erm, why's that?" We asked.

"We've no rice" was the reply.

Now, I can understand a cancellation if they have no curries, but how easy is it to boil some rice!

At the time there were 3 major supermarkets within 2 minutes of the pub. If the manager had been on the ball, he'd have sent someone out to buy up as much rice as possible, boil it for 10 minutes and there you go, curry night is on.

Due to the manager being hard of thinking, a cancelled curry night meant the pub lost out on a lot of cash.
And we still didn't get our curry.

The wife and I had one last year.The rice was bloody crispy like it had been in the oven.I ate about half of it and wanted to leave.This was our 3rd and last visit to that skankhole.

I go sometimes if I'm going to a midnight film (which tend to happen on Thursdays...)

My friends love it, though I'd rather go for a real Indian. It just tastes like microwave curry, but they love the fact that it's cheap ... well, we are students.

I'd rather order something else off the menu really, the burgers are actually quite nice.

That's strange because it happened to use once and the gave us chips instead which we were quite happy about.

i agree, what a bunch of old tarts people are becoming these days. I also used to work for 'spoons and they are not bad at all imo.

I went to one in Leicester for a drink and small bite to eat.. It was my first time.. I've been living abroad for 6 years since I was 18 so had never experienced their "service"...

The tables were sticky.. And I mean sticky.. I ordered an Efes beer and the glass that was given was filthy, I asked for another one, which wasn't any better, so I ended up drinking from the bottle. As for the food, well why bother? You can buy the same fat and salt laden rubbish from supermarkets and eat it at home, why pay for the chance to eat it outside?

And in no way do I think expecting decent meat and basic hygene make me an old tart.. What a joke..

I had one there about 2 months ago, it gave me food poisoning i was sick a few hours after eating it, and really ill for a good week afterwards

I've seen this attitude a few times in pub. "Sorry we are out of chips/bread/rice etc".

I was once told by a pub landlord that they weren't serving sandwiches because their bread delivery hadn't come in that morning. I pointed out that there was a bakery next door but was then told that "company rules" said they could only use approved suppliers!