Is Ramsay inc down the sink. Oh F**K

kennyboy66_2

Kez100 wrote: »

£30 is the set lunch. Dine in the evening (most peoples choice) and it's £70.

To compare like with like a Harvester lunch from their set menu is £2.50 starter £5-6 main and £3.50 average for pudding. So, £12 maximum - a third of the Claridges lunch price.

Evening is a tad more at Harvester and could be £20 for three courses but then compare with the evening Claridges price!

Also, drinks will be very much more expensive at Claridges. A 10% associated tip will also be more due to the underlying cost.

I don't eat at either but I get annoyed at people who do not compare like with like to try and prove their point.

I don;t go to London very much but the best meal I have ever had was at Olives (in Browns Hotel). What we noticed was how cheap food actually was but we were charged £6 for a bottle of water and £19.50 for a wine, not a quality wine, one which we know from the supermarket. We also had a similar situation with food on the Strand at one of the hotels - quite cheap £12.50 for two pre-theatre courses but £20 for the bottle of wine and £4.50 for water. At least with Harvester people know what hey are letting themselves in for.

Then again, you pay £2.70 for a pint of lager, that you can buy in a supermarket for 70p, or £1.40 for a coke that you could get for 30p

Kez100

kennyboy66 wrote: »

Then again, you pay £2.70 for a pint of lager, that you can buy in a supermarket for 70p, or £1.40 for a coke that you could get for 30p

I give up!

I know. I know. And what do you pay for drinks in Claridges?

My whole point was that Harvester versus Claridges is not the difference between £20 and £30 but far more like £30 (inc drinks) and £90 (inc drink).

My point wasn't to promote Harvester. I don't choose to eat there either but to stick up for those that do chose to, as posters on here were implying for £10 more they could enjoy a meal out at Claridges.

PasturesNew

I tend to only eat one mail meal. That fills me up.
I find starters are small and not worth the money. e.g. a dinky starter might be £5 and a full plate of main meal might be £8.

I used to like good old pub grub. £4.50 for pie/chips/peas. Or a £5.95 all you can eat carvery is nice.

PasturesNew

Jamie Oliver's Fifteen restaurant in Newquay had a Taster Meal with Wine priced at £90... £90!!!!

Here it is:
- tasting menu £48.95
- with wine an extra £40
http://www.fifteencornwall.co.uk/pdf/D06.01.09.pdf

Kez100

Best meal (or part of a meal) I ever had was steak in Orlando at Charlies. Funny thing though, we ordered salad and they served it as a starter, so we ate it. Then, when the steak came, that's all there was....nothing else on the side! Just steak.Beautiful and more than enough tofill us up, but we felt really silly.

My other best lifetime meals were on a cruise ship. So many of them I don't know which to pick above the others.

Oh, and Afternoon Tea at Reids! That was yummy too.

Kez100

PasturesNew wrote: »

Jamie Oliver's Fifteen restaurant in Newquay had a Taster Meal with Wine priced at £90... £90!!!!

Here it is:
- tasting menu £48.95
- with wine an extra £40
http://www.fifteencornwall.co.uk/pdf/D06.01.09.pdf

Newquay. That well known town for highly paid jobs!

I have to say though, Fifteen does have a great underlying concept (helping disadvantaged youngsters get a foot in the door on the job front)

I know people here that have been there for a special treat but most go for breakfast. I assume, but don't actually know, that's because it is affordable on local wages.

PasturesNew

Kez100 wrote: »

I know people here that have been there for a special treat but most go for breakfast. I assume, but don't actually know, that's because it is affordable on local wages.

I'd hardly call it affordable.
http://www.fifteencornwall.co.uk/pdf/Breakfast%20Menu.pdf

Fruit juice £3.45
Fry up/juice/tea or coffee £12.25
Salmon/scrambled eggs/drink £14.70
Bowl of porridge/drink £8.35

-v- Walkabout's all you can eat for £5

Maybe it's a couple/singles thing: one person's poor wages is too poor to go out, a couple's poor wages combined has a few spare quid.

purch

A 10% associated tip will also be more due to the underlying cost.

10 % :eek:

Tight Wad !!!! :rotfl:

Kez100

Everyone I know went for special birthdays/anniversaries. One was a 40th birthday, one a wedding anniversary and the other a 13th birthday (for son who wants to be a chef)

PasturesNew

Kez100 wrote: »

... a 13th birthday (for son who wants to be a chef)

For a 13th??
I think for my 13th birthday it would have been a special treat to get a chicken curry and chips from the chip shop!

I've never been part of anybody celebrating a wedding so that's all an alien world to me too. For my 40th, I didn't do anything (but then I didn't on my 18th or 21st or 30th either, I expect my 50th to be the same).

My last birthday was a £10 curry, eaten in an indian though, not a takeaway as it was a treat.

Some people live in a different world don't they :P