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Do you like going out to restaurants for lunch/dinner?
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scrilla
23-12-2016
I like some places. Nowhere that is busy or 'the place to be' or pretentious. I like low key, casual spots where you can have a bite to eat, in relative peace and not be fleeced. I'm no longer interested in paying daft prices just to eat. I'll find places that work for me and stick to them. More café than restaurant these days.
ChristmasCake
24-12-2016
I love a meal out, equally, I enjoy a home-cooked meal, just depends on my mood.
Toby LaRhone
24-12-2016
We eat out several times a year as a party of five couples - evenings after a few drinks in a pub - either Italian or "Indian" - mostly Indian. (Last week, after settling the bill we all got complimentary brandies)
I eat out once a month with 3/4 friends - afternoons after a few drinks in several pubs - pub meal.
My wife eats out once a month with friends - evenings - Thai, Chinese, Italian, Indian
My wife and I will eat out on an afternoon but never planned, just when the mood takes us - pub or a favourite "bistro" that offers two courses for £10.95 and is always excellent.
All of the venues are "tried and tested" favourites (though varied) and always enjoyable.
We ate out last a week or so back on a Sunday with wife's sister and our BiL.
It was very busy in the City and we had a fairly poor experience in an Italian chain.
In general we know where we can experience good food and service.

All of the above sounds "often" but it's not really because, in the case of the last example above, I resent paying for poor service and food that I can serve better at home with little effort.
We don't mind paying when it's good.

But.... We love eating a nice home prepared meal - fillet steak (from Lidl) 👍, risotto etc etc
patsylimerick
24-12-2016
Originally Posted by razorback Tony:
“I almost never eat lunch out, but I have dinner in good restaurants at least once per week, sometimes twice.
An uncle said to me once, if you look at a menu on a restaurant door, or window, just check what food is on it, anyone who looks at the prices can't really afford to eat out.
He was a London taxi driver, and said that if he was sitting on a rank, reading the paper, and waiting for a fare, if someone asked him "How much to wherever?", he'd know that they probably couldn't afford it."”

I don't doubt he believed that; but I believe the opposite. Some of the most miserly people I know are also the wealthiest. They know the price of everything and woe betide anyone who tries to short them!

I love eating out. Don't do it as often as I'd like to. With friends, with OH, with family. I'll always make sure we go somewhere that's recommended and/or well reviewed. It's treat and it's lovely - as a busy working mum - to have someone else do the cooking and the clear up.
razorback Tony
24-12-2016
Originally Posted by patsylimerick:
“I don't doubt he believed that; but I believe the opposite. Some of the most miserly people I know are also the wealthiest. They know the price of everything and woe betide anyone who tries to short them!”

I take your point patsy, but as Uncle Frank said, there wasn't a set price to somewhere, like a bus or a train, £X from Waterloo to Richmond, or £X from Liverpool Street to Highgate, no matter how long it took.
If he was at Victoria Station, and a fare wanted to go to Battersea, it might be £8.80 to £9.20 one day, another day, if there was heavy traffic, (roadworks, Chelsea Flower Show), it may go £13.40 to £14.60.
Another place he said he avoided, was Victoria Coach Station.
He said that after having travelled hundreds of miles among loads of bawling kids, and sweaty people, for £2.00, fares would protest bitterly at paying £4.80 to go to Trafalgar Square, even though they had the warm, or air-conditioned in summer, taxi to themselves.
What name??
24-12-2016
I love eating out. It gives you the opportunity to try new things and socialise without anyone having to cleanup afterwards.
sarahj1986
24-12-2016
Although in general I do like it the lunch/dinner can present me with issues down to by OCD-

1, where I am sat. If I'm allowed to choose them I'm happier, if I can't I get very nervous as to where I'm seated. I don't like being near windows or the door. At the back in the corner suits me fine.

2, how the food is presented. I've had some bad experiences where all the food is chucked on the plate, sauces touching and that kind of thing. If it's a new place then I would t order something that they can present "wrong"

3, sauces is another funny area. I do like to use an array of sauces. If it's place that's tight on sauces then I don't get chips with the meal

4 if it's planned then I like to be able to view the menu online first. I hate feeling rushed, but similarly I hate feeling like people are waiting for me to choose. If I look online I can selects a shortlist of dishes I think will be acceptable to me then decide on the day.

5 I'm also very funny about being too near other people. There's some places I've been and the tables are crammed so close together, it's like having a meal with a stranger.

In all fairness the places I go to regularly I'm ok with. Wetherspoons for example I can sit where I want and they present the food in an acceptable way to me. Most pubs do to be fair so I'm usually ok. Yo sushi and Nando's are other favourites, again they present the food in an acceptable way.

I don't like having my issues. It's hard to explain it to people who don't get it at all. I really do wish I could just sit anywhere, or allow all the food to touch and so forth. It can cause me a great deal of stress and anxiety. While watching Masterchef Profesdionals the other night my husband asked if I would ever go to one of these top restaurants and I said I would but I probably wouldn't be able to handle how they present the food. I doubt an award winning chef would take kindly to a customer requesting everything is placed on the plate separately 😁
Soundbox
24-12-2016
I would say yes, but with an average waiting time of over an hour for even heated up fish and chips it is not possible unless I have the day off work. I suggested a dinner out a few weeks ago and after an hour and a half the food had still not arrived because they were busy. I just don't have time in my day to sit for over an hour, hungry and with a numb bum from sitting too long. So its a no.
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