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Re: Missing UK food
I noticed Twiglets in my local Woolies foreign foods section a while back and now I'm seriously addicted. I think I might have to get someone to post me a crate from back home - it would be cheaper!
Trying to describe them to Aussies is funny too - looks like a twig but tastes of Marmite/Vegemite .... |
Re: Missing UK food
Originally Posted by BadgeIsBack
(Post 11603005)
you should never pay 50 bucks for a parma
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Re: Missing UK food
Originally Posted by NJJ
(Post 11603874)
It's astonishing the price some places charge, and the rorts they have going. I was at a pub in Lorne a few years ago during holiday season. The Parma & Chips is their restaurant/bistro was around $40, where the same could be ordered as a 'counter meal' in the main bar for $25.
Plus good beer on tap. If I spot something I won't pay for it is dismissed never to trouble me again. |
Re: Missing UK food
Originally Posted by BadgeIsBack
(Post 11603929)
On the way back from the Prom I paid less than market rates for a gigantic steak.
Plus good beer on tap. If I spot something I won't pay for it is dismissed never to trouble me again. $14 parmy and chips down the hill mid-week $16 steak and chips and a beer on Thursdays $4.90 Heineken pints All good |
Re: Missing UK food
Originally Posted by NJJ
(Post 11603874)
It's astonishing the price some places charge, and the rorts they have going. I was at a pub in Lorne a few years ago during holiday season. The Parma & Chips is their restaurant/bistro was around $40, where the same could be ordered as a 'counter meal' in the main bar for $25.
Best value meals I know of in AU is the Vietnamese restaurants in some very not fashionable suburbs near where we rent in melb. $9 for main, side and tea. Love the food markets too, same stuff they sell in the trendy suburbs for half the price. |
Re: Missing UK food
Originally Posted by jad n rich
(Post 11604001)
Most astonishing lunch today, ordered a crispy taco from mad mex. One teaspoon of meat and get this! 7 black beans. Even with lettuce and tomato it was only half full. $4. Ridiculous.
Best value meals I know of in AU is the Vietnamese restaurants in some very not fashionable suburbs near where we rent in melb. $9 for main, side and tea. Love the food markets too, same stuff they sell in the trendy suburbs for half the price. |
Re: Missing UK food
Originally Posted by Amazulu
(Post 11603944)
$12 for rump and chips at the local hotel on Thursdays. 3 meals and a bottle of house red - $58. Bargain
$14 parmy and chips down the hill mid-week $16 steak and chips and a beer on Thursdays $4.90 Heineken pints All good I have paid more for steak and chips, for example, but I am paying for location, ambience, service and more so, an experience. |
Re: Missing UK food
Originally Posted by BadgeIsBack
(Post 11604829)
That is normally how it works. There is no need to pay top dollar for pub food - unless you are a tourist. There is a time and place to pay top dollar in a place of your choosing and on your own timing.
I have paid more for steak and chips, for example, but I am paying for location, ambience, service and more so, an experience. Actually, house red is $20 so $56 for 3 |
Re: Missing UK food
Originally Posted by Amazulu
(Post 11604839)
Yep, but this is BE where many like a b=good old whinge just for the sake of it
Actually, house red is $20 so $56 for 3 the trivial and commonplace. No wonder they moved to Australia - they thought those same lives would be fixed. (ho ho). It's ok - I am only pulling a leg. |
Re: Missing UK food
Originally Posted by Charismatic
(Post 11598229)
I think British food is awful, I don't know how or why it's quite so miserable but clearly...the results speak for themselves.
There are many things we are great at from inventing the telly to building supersonic airliners, and much more...however culinary skills should definitely be singled out as an area for improvement.
Originally Posted by Grayling
(Post 11598245)
A bit ironic from someone living in New Zealand:lol:
Originally Posted by Sally Redux
(Post 11598248)
Out of date. The food is so good now.
However if you are looking for something more original, contemporary, imaginative or with providence I'm afraid it is still quite difficult to find...that lightning in a bottle. |
Re: Missing UK food
Originally Posted by Charismatic
(Post 11605019)
Depends. There are plenty of those restaurants styled around nouvelle cuisine (which is essentially 70s/80s style cooking) and the subsequent gastropub/lounge trend of the 90's and even molecular gastronomy (which was trendy in about the same era but lingered into the early naughties) never got off the ground here. You'll see lots of replication and variation on those classic themes as well, there are numerous celeb associated restaurants with plenty of Michelin stars rehashing those ideas to death.
However if you are looking for something more original, contemporary, imaginative or with providence I'm afraid it is still quite difficult to find...that lightning in a bottle. I havent seen a nouvelle cuisine restaurant for decades. There is a good smattering of gastropub, and many are now being given the awards they deserveSeen VERY few "celeb" restaurants, other than Chiltern - which is already no longer the fashionable. Though, that, nor the infamous Ivy has ever held a michelin As for molecular, it is still around in the form of the Fat Duck and some others - interestingly, one of the few good restaurants in Perth is of the ilk and of course the Fat Duck, is currently operating from Melbourne. Hundreds of excellent restaurants in London alone that have the lightning in a bottle. One to consider Ceviche UK |
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