Quite put me off going. I want to see the engineering marvel that had us at the front of space exploration, but at the back of my mind there will be the **** artisan sandwiches.
I wouldn’t mind but I was going to take a picnic.
I blame all of those BBC ponces that have invaded recently.
Plain bread only has crusts at either end of the long slice. coz it’s cooked in batches in huge tins. Round dark crusts on the top. Flat light crusts on the bottom. Thick end slices , the Ootsiders, on either end of the loaf. Magnificent.
It’s a famous roadie caff stop innit? With 10k bikes sat in the rack outside belonging to the mamils of Cheshire, what kind of butty were expecting?!!
We met our southern friends off the motorway there when they came to us for a weekend visit. We happily consumed a rather large picnic in the grounds Harry (mostly pork/pastry based) the quality of which was debriefed at opposite ends of the field via the parabolic dish set up. Excellent!
I let myself down on the way out and bought four brews though
If everyone just asked the waitress to take it back, put it on a proper plate, (a round one, none of your square plate nonsense please) and return it, they’d soon get the message.
You may get a bit of spit on it too, but that’s a risk I’m sure we’d all agree is worth taking.
I was once presented with a steak and chips on a slate. A SLATE! There was nothing to stop the peas rolling off apart from the fact THAT THERE WERE NO PEAS.
NO PEAS!
A STEAK AND CHIPS WITH NO PEAS ON A SLATE!
The place has since closed after a significant, and as yet unexplained, fire.
York Railway Museum – 2 butties and a couple of coffees?
That’ll be £20.00.
The NRM is free entry. You’re welcome to take packed lunches.
Food and drink sales help keep these places open. And that’s not that much more expensive than, say, Costa, only my local Costa isn’t filled with awesome bits of industrial and engineering history like Mallard and Flying Scotsman and that.
I agree that Salisbury Cathedral can piss off though, the church is **** minted.
We paid/donated at the front desk.
And bought loads of stuff in the shop – I got some decent beer and a Mallard pint glass, very good it is too.
And a jigsaw.
😀
The food on the platform was overpriced and unpleasant – crap bread and a couple of artisan crisps.
The filling was OK and the coffee was nice though.
🙂
I was presented with a burger on an oval bit of untreated wood recently, burger juices staining the plank – I wanted to smash and kill but I was with work colleagues
the Abel Heywood – great beer but NO PLATES !!!
there is a cereal cafe in Afflecks palace
it’s a really good bike ride from the MNPR spiritual home to Jodrell and back
The Crown, up at Hawk Green. See advert in the local free rag “The Marple Review” (featuring n article on the new road club, ilustrated by a snap from yours truly)
Now there’s a thought! Genetically enhanced onions so that you can make a 12” ring to stop the peas rolling off the slate/shovel/plank/galvanised bin lid/performance artist’s ass.
It would cost billions in bio research and investment in fat fryers big enough to cope with them.
Alternatively they could just serve it on a ****ing plate.
The coffee the NRM is good but the food cost more than some of the exhibits. We ate elsewhere. You’d think that if they “de-ponced” it and doubled the capacity they may actually make more money because people with families could actually afford to eat there. How many people are interested in hand cut this and artisan that? We just want to refuel the kids without feeling like we’ve been robbed and get back in the museum.
We once made the mistake of eating at the Legoland thing in the Traffic Centre. 4 sandwiches, 4 drinks, 4 bags of crisps and a couple of apples cost near enough £30! Never going there again (it was rubbish anyway, I’d not sure I’d darken their doorstep again if the food was free TBH).
most people who go to places like Jodrell and the NRM will either eat there because it doesn’t involve going and coming back (so suck up the price), and those with disposable income who have high expectations will need to be catered for, can’t afford to not cater(pun intended) to this sector
I never drink coffee in these places anymore because of the cost/markup
our local frankie and benny’s, normal staple for reasonably priced, ok food was a bit of a shock yesterday lunchtime.
ordered bacon burger and fries from their new lunch menu (read; same old stuff, repriced and reordered), in it comes, on a chopping board, with chips in a brown paper bag.
Next time the ingredients will turn up and they’ll tell you to assemble it yourself. Same principle as those restaurants where you cook your own steak on a hot stone. I have a place where I go to cook steak, it’s called home. When I go to a restaurant I want someone else to do the work.
Beagle – the pub is The Crown at Hawk Green. Robinsons have done a good job of the refurbishment.
Not heard any reports about the pretentious food yet 🙂