been into leeds this afternoon/teatime, spot of shopping and a couple of shandies with the wife and kids.
had a look at the menu’s in various pubs, all the same generic dross to be honest
beer battered haddock and chips £12.50
beef burger with double fried chips and relish £9.99
pork pie and pea £4.50
and the crème de la crème, continental meat/cheese board £11.95

where do these price come from, seriously who the heck would pay 12 quid for fish and chips or a bit of ham chorizo and cheese on a plate?

fish and chips in the best chippy in leeds is £4.50, it takes 2 people to produce, just like a pub does, 1 to cook 1 to serve, where does the other £8 come from?

robbing barpersons……….. 😡

Burger in one of our locals is £16, that’s just the burger, chips are extra. It was good, not that good!

Gotta love southern prices!

Tha payin’ for th’ambience, tha knows. 😉

Get tae Wetherspoons or Beefeater 🙂

Double fried chips ? so thats reheated leftovers !!

Aye, Wetherspoons. Went to the 3 Hullats in Chapel Allerton tonight, HUGE portions, guest cask ales, family of 4 cost £30 including drinks. It is the greatest pub in Leeds.

Cost of the plates, cutlery, chairs, tables, heating, cleaning, dish washing, rent and maintenance of a premises much larger than a chippy for people to sit in.

Spoons in Lowestoft do some good food for the money. Actually it was good full stop. 2 pints of ruddles for £3.90 too! They even let me bring my bike in as I’d left the lock at work. Pretty good all in all. Interestingly though they claim to be a freehouse. I cannot see how this can be if it’s a ‘spoons pub?

Cost of the plates, cutlery, chairs, tables, heating, cleaning, dish washing, rent and maintenance of a premises much larger than a chippy for people to sit in.

COBBLERS, offset by massive bulk discount buying through the brewery.

They need to charge that much to compensate for being stiffed by the brewery.

where does the other £8 come from?

Where did you go? I guess if it is in the town center, overheads? I agree it is a lot for what it is.

You know what to do, Comrade!

Get to Gregg’s!

They need to charge that much to compensate for being stiffed by the brewery.

not at £3.50 a pint they don’t
and the chip shop is in leeds city center too
plain and simple jumping on the real ale bandwagon and ripping people off.

The Spoons I was in had this for £2.15 a pint, in Leeds city centre it would have been £4+

http://www.elysianbrewing.com/elysian-beers/avatar-jasmine-ipa/

Brewery run pubs are like petrol stations. High headline prices minimal profit on the pint.

If you want expensive food – try france – although asking for the french menu stops that someplaces 😉

I love eating out back in my home town – use to aberdeen prices of 15-20 quid for a decent feed – go home and get 2 meals for that:)

Where did you go? I guess if it is in the town center,

Was priced in £ not $ so not a town center !

Having friends who own and run their own “independant/self owned” pubs/restaurants I was going to post something bout Weatherspoons and their ilk when it comes to serving food and beer (or what passes for food) but i’d be perceived as a food snob so i decided against it.

I know the costs involved in running an independent bar/restaurant serving quality cuts of locally reared and slaughtered meat and fresh seafood with a locally traceable provenance, one mate has his own farm that supplies his own restaurant and another mate selects from the local fishing boats and from catch to being served less than 12 hrs later – it ain’t cheap – if you don’t care about food then go ahead…choose weatherspoons and their sort but you’re paying for mass produced slurry dressed up as food.

Soma, not all Spoons are the same, ours is genuinely decent food.

Norverner/Yorkshireman complaining about costs of things shocker

Edit.

I must add I was very dubious about Whetherspoons food especially their breakfasts (well mainly more concerned about the clientele in there at breakfast time)
However, I found myself in the local ‘spoons a couple of weeks ago for breakfast. And I have to say I was shocked at the experience. Food was great and there were no drunks or druggies in (11am). I had eggs Benedict and a brew for £4.29 (or there abouts, can’t remember exactly)
The eggs Benedict was much better than my usual spot, a independent French restaurant down the road, I will certainly go back there for breakfast again

Not true ben – its not possible. It might look good an taste ok – doesnt make it – “good food” but for the $$ you cant complain – you get what you pay for.

Like macdonalds i treat weatherspoons like a known baseline food when im in a new town and cant see anything that takes m fancy

if a pub does genuine good quality food, I don’t mind paying for it, but the pub food off these ‘same in any pub’ menu’s is cheap to produce, cheap to buy crap, yet the charge a fortune for it.

proper gets my gander up……. 🙁

I’m with soma. Any weather spoons I’ve been into has been shite and full of the town freaks and scummers.

I’ll happily pay more for food!

Trail_rat, how does it work then? Our local has a CAMRA award, different beers every week, different menu to the branded Wetherspoons in the city but is owned by Wetherspoons.

Talking to the landlord of my local, he was telling me that he can’t buy beer off the brewery for the price that Weatherspoons are selling it at! They just can’t compete. And they make sod all profit on beer, as they’re all being royally screwed over by the breweries! Doing food is pretty much the only way to keep a boozer afloat

Ton – you should come over to Rammy mate. Pub down the road does the best homemade pies you’ve ever tasted, with a big plate of proper chips for a lot less than 12 squid. My poor waistline 😀

So what your saying is its not a weatherspoons.

Quite enjoyed the food and microbrewed beer at the moulin 2 weeks ago. Wasnt astronomic cost either 20 quid for 2 mains of propper grum an 2 pints

It’s definitely a Wetherspoons, but you really wouldn’t know it

http://www.jdwetherspoon.co.uk/home/pubs/the-three-hulats

I only go to pubs to drink. Eating is cheating!

If they havnt stuck their name on it its not a weatherspoons. They are obviously trying to attract a different clientel to a pub they happen to own – its a good thing for you though 🙂

a boozer in the village where I live has recently been taken over by ossett brewery. the pub was on it’s arse, proper dump, smell, dirty seating, decorated in 1982.
it has had a full refurb, nice and comfy now, nice big outdoor area with seating, heck even sky sport on the big screen.
pub is packed fri/sat/sun and busy Mondays with a poker group, and Wednesday with a quiz night.
the beer is sublime, £2.40 a pint of Yorkshire blonde, a whole £1 cheaper than when it was a dump selling smoth keg dross.

pubs do not need to rip folk off to stay open, they need to sell good beer, and good food at a sensible price.

Ton – which chippy is it? Sorry to go off topic, but I’m in Leeds next week and think great fish and chips are one of the finest things in life 🙂

smell-it, chippy is graveleys or now called the fishermans wife.
it is on the left hand side of the leeds market house.

Lovely, you’re a gent.

pubs do not need to rip folk off to stay open, they need to sell good beer, and good food at a sensible price.

This. The Millstone near where I live manages to do it. Decent cask ales, changed regularly and a fantastic tapas menu. It’s popularity proves the point.

I’d rather buy from Wetherspoons than any of the predatory bastard pubco’s who’s business model concentrates around diddling people out of their redundancy/retirement lump sums by taking them on as landlords and then stiffing them on the rent and beer price!

Minor point – a genuine proper pub should in no way include a big screen TV, let alone one showing Sky Sports. That’d be my cue to jog on and find an alternative. YMMV…

I’m a big fan of ‘Spoon’s Veggie burgers 🙂 As a meal it’s fairly balanced and at £6 with a pint it’s great.

Rang up the local sarny shop for a bacon egg and sausage roll yesterday. $10. I told them to forget it. Food and beer can be bloody pricey here in Oz and don’t get me started on the “chippys” – they use oven chips and cook everything when you order so Friday nights are crazy busy just for a chippy tea!

Pubs use better ingredients, for example their potatoes are often King Edwards or Jersey Royals – you know Royal varieties. Chippies on the other hand use Alan Greens or Jonathan Agnews – you know common taters……………….

I’m quite surprised that it seems like some are expecting a pub to sell fish and chips at the same price as a take out chippy. The costs in the food may be the same, but the difference in running the premises are hugely different. Pubs that do cheap food manage it mainly due to the fact it’s exactly that, cheap.

unpretencious nobber being ripped of by city that caters for pretentious nobs shocker