I've been let down more times than I care to remeber with Pub meals ..if you find a good pub - stick with it IMO.

The place I go to on a Sunday is marvellous. A carvery and a whole bunch of different veggies. Alas! My Doctor has forbidden me to eat Yorkshire pudding.

i get let down more times than not. the cheap harvester up the road is the only place that hasnt let me down TBH

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Originally posted by Soozy woo:
I've been let down more times than I care to remeber with Pub meals ..if you find a good pub - stick with it IMO.

If you find a good anything stick with it. IMHYCO.

Too many times to recall. A Salad Nicoise full of sand was a particular treat.

Now I usually stick the the most basic things on the menu.

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Originally posted by Garage Joe:
The place I go to on a Sunday is marvellous. A carvery and a whole bunch of different veggies. Alas! My Doctor has forbidden me to eat Yorkshire pudding.

Always a carvery for us as well if we go out for a sunday roast, you know its been cook cooked and not microwaved/preheated and plastic tasting as most pubs do

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Originally posted by Teddy Bleads:
Too many times to recall. A Salad Nicoise full of sand was a particular treat.

Now I usually stick the the most basic things on the menu.

I can beat that, my Ceasar Salad in BL1 had a lovely little snail in it!

I've been told to go to the Weatherspoons in town I've heard it's good and cheap, and a pub in town called The Bell Inn which I do drink in is supposed to have a good reputation.

Pool, as your location says Nottingham, try these ones for carverys in your area, i typed in your location and 4 came up

Toby Carverys

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Originally posted by Garage Joe:
The place I go to on a Sunday is marvellous. A carvery and a whole bunch of different veggies. Alas! My Doctor has forbidden me to eat Yorkshire pudding.

Spill, I might give it a go some time I promise to forewarn you of an impending visit.

Well the last Carvery I had was a bit pants but thats cos it was nearly finishing up time for lunch. The pub down the road from us does piss poor lunches put there evening meals are lush.

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Originally posted by Cinds:

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Originally posted by Garage Joe:
The place I go to on a Sunday is marvellous. A carvery and a whole bunch of different veggies. Alas! My Doctor has forbidden me to eat Yorkshire pudding.

Spill, I might give it a go some time I promise to forewarn you of an impending visit.

Are you sure?
'Tis about 50 miles south of you.

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Originally posted by Garage Joe:

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Originally posted by Cinds:

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Originally posted by Garage Joe:
The place I go to on a Sunday is marvellous. A carvery and a whole bunch of different veggies. Alas! My Doctor has forbidden me to eat Yorkshire pudding.

Spill, I might give it a go some time I promise to forewarn you of an impending visit.

Are you sure?
'Tis about 50 miles south of you.

For a good carvery I am willing to travel

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Originally posted by Cinds:

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Originally posted by Garage Joe:

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Originally posted by Cinds:

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Originally posted by Garage Joe:
The place I go to on a Sunday is marvellous. A carvery and a whole bunch of different veggies. Alas! My Doctor has forbidden me to eat Yorkshire pudding.

Spill, I might give it a go some time I promise to forewarn you of an impending visit.

Are you sure?
'Tis about 50 miles south of you.

For a good carvery I am willing to travel

Imagine a rich county town.

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Originally posted by Bovrilking:
Pool, as your location says Nottingham, try these ones for carverys in your area, i typed in your location and 4 came up

Toby Carverys

Cheers, I've been to the Colwick one, it was good but sooo packed out, you have to get there dead early to get a seat, the rest are too far away, I ain't got transport.

Oh yes

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Originally posted by Poolshark:
I very rarely eat in pubs, but yesterday me and my mate decided to have a sunday roast in our local for one, it's always busy in there with people buying food so I thought it must be decent. Well it wasn't yuck but it wasn't wow either, just traditional beef and veg with roasties, mash, yourkies, the norm. I don't think I'll be eating in there again.

what did you expect though? you ordered Sunday lunch and thats what you got?

We have a lovely carvery near us - nice and cheap and just your standard roast dinner but I like it

I prefer a carvery but have been to a few different places for sunday lunch and have been very disappointed.

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Originally posted by Cinds:

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Originally posted by Garage Joe:

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Originally posted by Cinds:

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Originally posted by Garage Joe:
The place I go to on a Sunday is marvellous. A carvery and a whole bunch of different veggies. Alas! My Doctor has forbidden me to eat Yorkshire pudding.

Spill, I might give it a go some time I promise to forewarn you of an impending visit.

Are you sure?
'Tis about 50 miles south of you.

For a good carvery I am willing to travel

Imagine a rich county town.

(Sorry my mum just 'phoned to say that she has to go for ECG-irregular heatbeat, and was a bit upset, I will have to go)

I'm assuming you live in Barcode country 50 miles downover, a rich county town, a large cat.

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Sorry my mum just 'phoned to say that she has to go for ECG-irregular heatbeat, and was a bit upset, I will have to go)

Hope everything is OK Joe

I very rarely eat out - especially in Pubs (no reason, I'm veggie and they don't tend to cater beyond a stuffed pepper!) anyhow, my husband and I did go for a meal ad hoc a few years ago in a well known local pub; the food was clean and hot but you wouldn't choke on the servings! I was calculating the cost as I ate - plus it wasn't anything special but really expensive for what it was - pasta and peppers.

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Originally posted by Garage Joe:

Sorry my mum just 'phoned to say that she has to go for ECG-irregular heatbeat, and was a bit upset, I will have to go)

Hope everything is OK Joe

It would appear so thanks.
Both in their eighties so one tends to worry.

yep ,wasnt nice to find a potato in my gravy and the forks not cleaned properly

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It would appear so thanks.
Both in their eighties so one tends to worry.

Glad to hear that she is fine. Parents and kids eh, always a source of worry.

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Originally posted by Poolshark:
I've been told to go to the Weatherspoons in town I've heard it's good and cheap, and a pub in town called The Bell Inn which I do drink in is supposed to have a good reputation.

Seven mile (Carvery)on the way out to mansfield pooly, 3.50 in the week i go there all the time with hubby and kids, infact i was there yesterday a little more money on sunday but nice.

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Originally posted by gma:
I very rarely eat out - especially in Pubs (no reason, I'm veggie and they don't tend to cater beyond a stuffed pepper!) anyhow, my husband and I did go for a meal ad hoc a few years ago in a well known local pub; the food was clean and hot but you wouldn't choke on the servings! I was calculating the cost as I ate - plus it wasn't anything special but really expensive for what it was - pasta and peppers.

Why can't they 'carve' Quorn roasts in a half-hearted attempt to say the least? You can get/have veggie gravy/roasts and stuffing to be 'veggie friendly' and I bet loads more people would turn up if places made the effort!

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Why can't they 'carve' Quorn roasts in a half-hearted attempt to say the least? You can get/have veggie gravy/roasts and stuffing to be 'veggie friendly' and I bet loads more people would turn up if places made the effort!

if you are ever in Brighton gma there is a pub called the George and it serves only veggie/vegan food.
it's very good - only problem is that it's in Brighton and there are loads of great veggie and vegan food places there so you get spoilt for choice

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Originally posted by Poolshark:
I've been told to go to the Weatherspoons in town I've heard it's good and cheap, and a pub in town called The Bell Inn which I do drink in is supposed to have a good reputation.

The Bell opposite Yates' in the centre? I drink in there sometimes!

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Originally posted by Poolshark:
I've been told to go to the Weatherspoons in town I've heard it's good and cheap, and a pub in town called The Bell Inn which I do drink in is supposed to have a good reputation.

The Bell opposite Yates' in the centre? I drink in there sometimes!

You just got yourself a new drinking buddy.

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Originally posted by gma:

Why can't they 'carve' Quorn roasts in a half-hearted attempt to say the least? You can get/have veggie gravy/roasts and stuffing to be 'veggie friendly' and I bet loads more people would turn up if places made the effort!

if you are ever in Brighton gma there is a pub called the George and it serves only veggie/vegan food.
it's very good - only problem is that it's in Brighton and there are loads of great veggie and vegan food places there so you get spoilt for choice

Thanks Veggie, we frequently do the 'London to Brighton Run' so when we go we have to go to go to the 'Ship Inn' aka 'Ramada Renaissance? so I'll check them out - They're rubbish! Honestly. We're not even paying,my hubby's boss pays as they're his cars (hubby just maintains them).

I love the Red Veg place there too gma. I haven't been to Brighton for a couple of years so I'm not sure what is still there but Red Veg do a mushroom burger that is to die for and they also do these devilled baby sweetcorn thingies - so nice.

I was a little disappointed when a posh restuarant in Marbella served me an unpeeled orange on a plate, complete with a knife and fork

Fried breadcrumbs was another eye-opener

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Originally posted by vodka jellyfish:
I was a little disappointed when a posh restuarant in Marbella served me an unpeeled orange on a plate, complete with a knife and fork

Fried breadcrumbs was another eye-opener

Very funny!

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Originally posted by Poolshark:
I've been told to go to the Weatherspoons in town I've heard it's good and cheap, and a pub in town called The Bell Inn which I do drink in is supposed to have a good reputation.

The Bell opposite Yates' in the centre? I drink in there sometimes!

I was in there Saturday night, normally in the room on the right as you walk in, coz me and my mate know the barmaid, I never used to like that pub, but I think it's great now.

We had a dreadful meal in a very well regarded pub/restaurant in a north Leeds village recently. The staff were rude, the place was filthy, and the food was awful and really expensive. I had steak in a white wine and mushroom sauce which turned out to be two massive bits of grey fatty gristle that I would have thought twice about giving to the dogs, covered in half a pint of cream. When we complained the waitress said oh, well, other people like it. I looked around at the empty tables with dirty plates on them and the amount of food left seemed to suggest otherwise. We've got a really good village pub just up the road though which is used by a lot of walkers. They always serve gorgeous home cooked food, real roasts with homemade Yorkshire puds and proper roast spuds cooked in dripping, and a pud selection to die for.

Something about walkers and pubs QOTHT.
I sometimes walk on the other side of the M62 from you, Sylvia Plath land and northwards.
There are some great eating establishments in them there hills.