It's time to start digging up those Squirrelled Nuts!!!!

jimpwarsop

zagfles said:

If we just want good food, there's an excellent takeaway-with-tables type place not too far from us, where we can eat excellent curries/kebabs for about £5 each with a drink (non alcoholic), the surroundings/ambiance isn't like a restaurant, it's a busy takeaway, but the food is excellent.

I suspect a lot of people dream of that sort of place, even the dump of a town I live in cant supply such value.

Sea_Shell

I can't get excited about eating out regularly.  It doesn't float my boat.

jimpwarsop

Sea_Shell said:

I can't get excited about eating out regularly.  It doesn't float my boat.

Thing is, if I have a disappointing meal, I feel the money was a waste, and I would rather be disappointed at home for £6, than disappointed out for £60.

bluenose1

We go out on average once a week. Normally just have mains and at most two drinks. 

Of a lunchtime with tip would spend about £15/ £20 each, of an evening about £30 each.
We feel like it is a treat to eat out and enjoy someone else doing all the work. 

Albermarle

jimpwarsop said:

Sea_Shell said:

I can't get excited about eating out regularly.  It doesn't float my boat.

Thing is, if I have a disappointing meal, I feel the money was a waste, and I would rather be disappointed at home for £6, than disappointed out for £60.

Even worse when the cheapest bottle of wine is 4 X what you pay for it in Tesco's 

Ganga

Albermarle said:

jimpwarsop said:

Sea_Shell said:

I can't get excited about eating out regularly.  It doesn't float my boat.

Thing is, if I have a disappointing meal, I feel the money was a waste, and I would rather be disappointed at home for £6, than disappointed out for £60.

Even worse when the cheapest bottle of wine is 4 X what you pay for it in Tesco's 

Has it not always been this case! 
I have been following the later part of this thread and it seems a lot of people do not want to spend their money on eating out but you cannot take it with you and i know it is peoples choice but what is the point of having an over average pension pot and not getting any enjoyment from it.

Sea_Shell

Ganga said:

Albermarle said:

jimpwarsop said:

Sea_Shell said:

I can't get excited about eating out regularly.  It doesn't float my boat.

Thing is, if I have a disappointing meal, I feel the money was a waste, and I would rather be disappointed at home for £6, than disappointed out for £60.

Even worse when the cheapest bottle of wine is 4 X what you pay for it in Tesco's 

Has it not always been this case! 
I have been following the later part of this thread and it seems a lot of people do not want to spend their money on eating out but you cannot take it with you and i know it is peoples choice but what is the point of having an over average pension pot and not getting any enjoyment from it.

We all "enjoy" different things.

Sometimes the enjoyment is purely not having to go to work!😉

Personally, I'd rather have an extra night of holiday accommodation...than a regular "local" meal out.

arnoldy

Albermarle said:

jimpwarsop said:

Sea_Shell said:

I can't get excited about eating out regularly.  It doesn't float my boat.

Thing is, if I have a disappointing meal, I feel the money was a waste, and I would rather be disappointed at home for £6, than disappointed out for £60.

Even worse when the cheapest bottle of wine is 4 X what you pay for it in Tesco's 

Agreed. My bug bears are when:

• The menu is the same for ages. the chef/kitchen are then just going through the motions, often its also an "assembly-reheating operation"
• Charged extra for vegetable side dishes. If I order a main I expect it to be complete.
• Menus that are not seasonal or local at all if you are paying £100+ between you. Eg you often see halibut on menu year round so you can usually expect that to be caught in Pacific, frozen then unfrozen and fileted in China and then sent to Europe/USA etc. Ditto serving asparagus year round.

Personally I'd rather spend £15-20 in Weatherspoon's, Harvester etc and I know it does not pretend to be something it isn't. If I go out for £60/head I like dishes I can't easily do at home/don't do at home  eg deep fried whitebait, whole grilled fish on the bone, Chinese with lots of different dishes, sizzling dishes that need hot hot gas burners...and so forth. dont see the point to paying to eat steak out which I can do at home easily.

Stubod

..we recently "found" Wetherspoons....not exactly haute quisine, but excellent value for money and beer cheaper than you can buy in Aldi. Recently had a meal for 2 + drinks for about the same as we brought 2 coffees in out local coffee shop.....  

Lifematters

For me, eating out is more than just a treat but a way to contribute to the local economy, support jobs and the hospitality industry. Wish I could do it more!