A list of restaurants

Smallman1

bosstrabs actual meaningful content

Lol!

Wasily

Smallman1 Went there in its previous iteration as Le Caprice in the 1990’s? Think its trading on the nostalgia of that era and doubt much will be different.

Along_the_Wire

Wasily La Caprice was properly shit

Smallman1

Thanks Was.

Wasily

Along_the_Wire Yep, I’d put it in the same genre as Sexy Fish or that Nusr-Et Steakhouse place.

Smallman1

Think Grant and Was must have gone to Richard Caring’s incarnation of Le Caprice rather then Corbyn and King’s original.

Anyhow, it’s back and firing on all cylinders!

https://www.hot-dinners.com/Gastroblog/Test-drive/arlington-restaurant-review-jeremy-king-le-caprice-st-james-london

Along_the_Wire

Smallman1 been to both incarnations. Full of wankers whatever the weather.

wrongun

Ed will fit right in

seanc80

bosstrabs Every country has rank dishes Dave. Even your beloved China. And Im not sure if Irish dishes are actually worse than English ones.

Is coddle worse than jellied eels for example?

bosstrabs

seanc80 Really, I just mean the shitness of the average town and its offerings.

One has to admit, Northern Europe is generally bleak in that regard.

Could I go down any street in Limerick, Stoke-on-Trent or Joensuu and expect a guaranteed decent meal? Could I fuck.

Could I go down any street in Italy, France, China or Japan and find a genuinely good, affordable restaurant? Probably.

No offence intended, it’s a pretty accurate assessment I reckon.

Old-Dutch

I do have to laugh at the absolute fucking state of the street food craze. The point of street food is that it was cheap and representative of food you can buy from street vendors in Asia. There’s a couple of places on my High St. - one a Sri Lankan ‘street food’ restaurant (now closed) that was charging £6.50 for egg fried rice 5 years ago.

The other is a Lebanese ‘Street Food’ restaurant which took over from the Lebanese restaurant that it bought. The chefs and menu are exactly the same as before, except where you used to get a whole poussin you now only get a half and pay £3 more for it.

Street food - big swing of my Mickey as Fadas used to say. PBUH

Irish street food? Lol. Seriously. THEY’RE TAKING THE FUCKING PISS, LADS.

bosstrabs

Old-Dutch I do have to laugh at the absolute fucking state of the street food craze. The point of street food is that it was cheap and representative of food you can buy from street vendors in Asia. There’s a couple of places on my High St. - one a Sri Lankan ‘street food’ restaurant (now closed) that was charging £6.50 for egg fried rice.

The other is a Lebanese ‘Street Food’ restaurant which took over from the Lebanses restaurant that it bought. The chefs and menu are exactly the same as before, except where you used to get a whole poussin you now only get a half and pay £3 more for it.

That’s if you’re lucky enough to be in London or Manchester, or well-heeled provincial towns like Chester or Altrincham that can support a slightly hipsterish market.

Everywhere else is Greggs - Vape Shop - Maccies - Bookies - KFC - Poundland

benson

bosstrabs Abingdon does not even have a KFC. Its a tragedy

Old-Dutch

I take it all back, Dave - lol

Millsy

Irish street food does seem rather carb heavy I must say.

seanc80

Millsy i actually cant believe people would buy that in an actual foodmarket where there’s loads of other street food options.

Madness

seanc80

Smallman1 To be honest that’s just embarrassing. Not sure why anyone would buy that shite unless they were desperately homesick. Its what is sold is every local Spar over here.

Old-Dutch

Talk about winging it. Not digging out Irish cuisine here either - the same would be true for any English street food offerings. We don’t have street food. Just mugs who will pay £8 for chips with curry sauce lol.

PUTIN, FUCKING NUKE US NOW

bosstrabs

Old-Dutch The closest we have to a ‘street food’ is the bakers’, where people will nip in for a meat and potato pie or bacon sarnie.

Unfortunately, all the old small family chains - I’m talking about Gerrards (Chester), Waterfields (Liverpool over to Warrington and St Helens), Chatwins (Chester and Crewe area), are all being beaten on price by the shitter, uniform Greggs and PoundBakery (vom).

So we don’t even have decent pie shops anymore.

seanc80

Yea i baulked at the price for basically chips in this curry sauce

Smallman1

It’s national pie this week as it happens.

Which is nice.

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