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Cheap pub meals
We were driving past a pub today and I noticed a board advertising a meal for £3.50. I hadn't time to see whether it was for a Sunday lunch, a weekday lunch or evening meal or not. What I do know is that there's no way I'd go to a pub for a £3.50 meal - it's hard enough to get a sandwich in a pub for £3.50 nowadays, never mind a meal. God knows what it was like!
However, could I be wrong. Does anyone know of a pub where you would get a decent meal for £3.50? I'd have said at least a fiver, and probably more, for a half-way decent meal. |
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Weatherspoons have BOGOF's in some pubs on some of their meals - think its in the region of £6/£7 for a meal?
Haven't had the pleasure of sampling them though - have been told they aren't that great
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I had a 10oz rump steak with chips, peas, portion of onion rings and a pint, and a big chocolate cake with ice cream for under a tenner at Wetherspoons the other week. Tasted very nice too. Can't beat £3.50 but they also have a 'burger and a pint' meal which I think is about a fiver.
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There's a pub not far from me that does Carvery (weekdays) for £3.50 - its always busy
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We were driving past a pub today and I noticed a board advertising a meal for £3.50. I hadn't time to see whether it was for a Sunday lunch, a weekday lunch or evening meal or not. What I do know is that there's no way I'd go to a pub for a £3.50 meal - it's hard enough to get a sandwich in a pub for £3.50 nowadays, never mind a meal. God knows what it was like!
However, could I be wrong. Does anyone know of a pub where you would get a decent meal for £3.50? I'd have said at least a fiver, and probably more, for a half-way decent meal. |
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We were driving past a pub today and I noticed a board advertising a meal for £3.50. I hadn't time to see whether it was for a Sunday lunch, a weekday lunch or evening meal or not. What I do know is that there's no way I'd go to a pub for a £3.50 meal - it's hard enough to get a sandwich in a pub for £3.50 nowadays, never mind a meal. God knows what it was like!
However, could I be wrong. Does anyone know of a pub where you would get a decent meal for £3.50? I'd have said at least a fiver, and probably more, for a half-way decent meal. |
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Toby Carvery does a sandwich meal during the day for that sort of price. Loads of meat, half a bagette and as much veg (including roast spud) as you like. Cant beat it!!!!
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I noticed a big Weatherspoons type pub in Liverpool (on Water Street I think) that was offering a burger and a pint for £3.50. Not sure I would trust the meat in that whoppa!
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Toby Carvery does a sandwich meal during the day for that sort of price. Loads of meat, half a bagette and as much veg (including roast spud) as you like. Cant beat it!!!!
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I got fish and chips, peas and bread and butter in Wetherspoons the other day for £3.10 and it was perfectly fine.
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Weatherspoons have BOGOF's in some pubs on some of their meals - think its in the region of £6/£7 for a meal?
Haven't had the pleasure of sampling them though - have been told they aren't that great ![]() I like their curry nights on Thursday nigths. |
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Those £3.50 carveries are really good.
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I noticed a big Weatherspoons type pub in Liverpool (on Water Street I think) that was offering a burger and a pint for £3.50. Not sure I would trust the meat in that whoppa!
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I think you can get deals in most of the chain pubs, and on the wholw they are OK, if unspectacular.
The lamb burger that comes with the pint in Wetherspoons is one of the best |
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Those £3.50 carveries are really good.
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Those £3.50 carveries are really good.
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There is a Polish pub in my town where you can get a big fat Polish sausage, served with a heap of fried onions, a little dish of mustard and another one of ketchup and three slices of delicious Polish bread and butter for the bargain price of two quid.
It's rather lovely, too. While some folk wouldn't say that was a meal, it suits me for lunch when I'm out and about. |
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For me a pub lunch has to be in a traditional pub. Somewhere out in the country with ig beams across the walls and an a landlord who looks a bit like a sex offender. Big traditional meals served on big plates.
Popping into a Varsity or a Weatherspoons and getting Thai Noodles with a rice cake for me isn't a 'pub lunch' |
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We don't have carveries in NI like you do across the water so the last time I was in Brum I was invited to a carvery with some friends. It was only £3.50 and the plate was full - and very tasty too.
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Carveries are the work of the devil. Why not just go somewhere and have a roast dinner? At least you know it hasn't been sitting under a hot lamp in the restaurant for hours.
I don't like carveries, can you tell
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They are indeed. I just don't understand why they're so popular. They make the whole pub hot and they stink the place out. And who the hell wants a roast dinner on a boiling hot day in August? Come to think of it who the hell wants a carvery at any time other than Sunday lunch? I don't understand how they make any money the other 6 days of the week. All the Brewer's Fayres round our way have gone carvery on me, and it irritates me.
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Toby Carvery on the weekends are very good. Think it was £5 and you have a mound of food! The meat was very high quality, and because of how busy it is, the food is constantly changing and not sitting around. You couldnt cook it for that quality at that price.
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Oh yeah, the Carvery is pretty good value, even on the night time its still only £7 or so and the drinks are relatively cheap
They don't rip you off (well my local 2 don't) even if they are in-situ to TravelLodges etc |
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Toby Carvery on the weekends are very good. Think it was £5 and you have a mound of food! The meat was very high quality, and because of how busy it is, the food is constantly changing and not sitting around. You couldnt cook it for that quality at that price.
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Makes you wonder where their meat comes from when it's that cheap though doesn't it? Plus add in the quality of the staff they employ to be able to do it. Hmmm.
As with all things, you get what you pay for. |
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