restaurants that don’t put a pound sign on the prices

Burnt Shallot & Green Peppercorn Tarte Tatin, Hispi Cabbage & Mustard Vinaigrette VG GF 17.5

Woke virtue signallers the lot of them! Are they hoping we won’t notice it’s expensive? Is it like pricing things at 9.99?

They can stick a zero on the end of those .5’s while they’re at it.

Harumph

Vegan and gluten free too! I’d want some meat and wheat included for that price for sure!!

Leave 17.5 Bratislavan groats, that’ll learn ’em

I’d order then pay in some odd currency that gets several hundred something’s to the pound…17.5 something’s is more palatable than 17.50 pounds!

I’m a colouring-in type and printer – hardly anyone puts £ signs on their menus anymore! So 1990s! 🙂

Our local does this, but as it’s just been ranked as The Good Food Guide’s Best Local Restaurant 2024 i’ll let it go.

Top scoff and bloody lovely staff.

The steak is 21!

I wonder if the absence of a currency symbol means you could argue in court that they should be obliged to accept 21 Turkish lira or Dogecoin?

Ah- I see others have made the same point first

Woke bastids.

Burnt Shallot & Green Peppercorn Tarte Tatin, Hispi Cabbage & Mustard Vinaigrette VG GF 17.5

At least they are honest about overcooking the onions.

Hey, I asked for another onion, and they said no, that’s shallot!

I’m here all week, try the vegan Tarte tatin

Yup add it to the cross thread. Tossers.

Hispi cabbage is worth 4 all day long

And Why Do They Use Camel Case For Their Descriptions?

Sounds alright ,where is this?

Pretentiousness. Pure and simple.

It ain’t big and it ain’t clever.

£21 for a steak – bargain!!

Going out for a meal has become less and less fun as I’ve got older.

When me and the missus were first together in Cambridge in the late 90s there was a BYO Indian down Mill Rd we went to once a week with a bottle of cheap Cab and it was three courses of whatever they had for whatever we had and they were some of the best meals I ever ate looked after by the funniest waiters I ever badly tipped.

These days its missing pound signs, missing gluten and missing the point most of the time. A meal out should be fun, tasty and relaxed and its harder and harder to find that, Occasionally you stumble across it but 90% of meals out are a disappointment to me – £100 (sorry 100-) plus a mandatory service charge for some souped up pub food surrounded by people driving Audi S-Lines and new Defenders just doesn’t do it for us.

Time stamp at 2 minutes from the ever reliable Sandi Toksvig and the QI elves

“This sandwich will **** you off” ?.

Top bombing

@llama – this is Lucky Strike in Bristol. I’ve never been so don’t know if it’s any good!

Vegan and gluten free too!

No theres no £ sign because  VGGF is the currency  – Venezolano Golden Guyana Fenig.

At the current exchange rate your tart comes in at a very reasonable  £1.75. It would be more normally, but they burnt it

some souped up pub food surrounded by people driving Audi S-Lines and new Defenders

Are you eating dinner in a traffic jam?

100 (sorry 100-) plus a mandatory service charge for some souped up pub food surrounded by people driving Audi S-Lines and new Defenders just doesn’t do it for us.

This sounds a lot like my experiences of eating out in the Dorking area, where my MiL lives.

Here in Bristol, you’re much more likely to be ordering small plates where you don’t really know what it’s going to be, drinking orange wine at £11 a glass and be surrounded by people who own electric cargo bikes. I prefer it that way tbf

Going out for a meal has become less and less fun as I’ve got older.

You are Victor Meldrew AICMFP

Try going out for a meal around leith!  25+ restaurants – if you serve overpriced rubbish you will go bust and some do.  I love eating out.  I have a choice from Michelin starred to good pub grub with everything in between withing a few hundred metres of my flat

Good food should be expensive –  it uses expensive ingredients and it takes a lot of time care and love to make and the staff deserve decent pay.  Mind you we do also have a couple of chains if you want mediocre cheap food  prepared by underpaid staff

Mmmm – making me hungry now.

@tj, I’m thinking of heading your way in the next month or so. Do you have any recommendations for a decent meal?

What sort of food?

Budget?

ship on the shore for great seafood.  Kings wark for good pub grub.  They are the two I usually use  Fishers and Shore bar are worth a visit as well.  Not been in teuchtars landing for  while – that got a good rep.  roseleaf does a good burger

gies a shout when you are up

If a lack of pound signs is all you’ve got to be angry about in this world, then I envy you (but I also don’t ‘cos it’s really petty). Your typographic choices may be different and that’s OK (assuming you’re not a professional crayoner in which case you should know better).

I think “angry” might be an exaggeration. It certainly seems a bit odd as it is a practice which appears to be unique to the restaurant industry. And the more expensive the restaurant the more shy they seem to be about using the £ prefix.

It does seem rather odd

No £ signs on a menu? What about the blood pressure raising, bile boiling lack of capitalisation in thread titles?

Oi! One hill to die on at a time, laddie…start a new thread about capitalisation in threads!!!

Try going out for a meal around leith! 25+ restaurants – if you serve overpriced rubbish you will go bust and some do. I love eating out. I have a choice from Michelin starred to good pub grub with everything in between withing a few hundred metres of my flat

Good food should be expensive – it uses expensive ingredients and it takes a lot of time care and love to make and the staff deserve decent pay. Mind you we do also have a couple of chains if you want mediocre cheap food prepared by underpaid staff

Mmmm – making me hungry now.

I generally  agree although i think your choices in your next post are a bit boring.

I actually find Winstons post really weird, its way more relaxed now, food is normally better and the choice is wider tha its ever been?!

Agree about price aswell.

As my old maths teacher used to say, ‘units’!

I’d rather have the £ symbol left off than put after the number like some deviants do.

The restaurants Winson misses still exist – they’ve just moved, and have a different name. So you need to go work out where it is now, not 25 years ago

And the more expensive the restaurant the more shy they seem to be about using the £ prefix.

The more expensive the restaurant, the less likely they are to even list the price…

although i think your choices in your next post are a bit boring.

Ooooohhhhhh

Just ‘cos I is a pensioner doesn’t mean I am boring – does it?  I shall have to go and have a nap and think about this 🙁

Just ‘cos I is a pensioner doesn’t mean I am boring – does it? I shall have to go and have a nap and think about this 🙁

Not at all. No objection to the quality of your choices but thy all kinda fit in a barrow quisine.

I’ll add Vietnam House, Mother India, El Cartel and Marys Milk bar for icecream to the list

The more expensive the restaurant, the less likely they are to even list the price… on the ladies menu

#keepingupstandardsisimportantorsomething

The ones that spell it out in letters can get in the sea, too.

“Organic smash burger and skin-on chunky chips, Ten”. GTF