[Food] Restaurant Thread 2022

[BLOCK F]

Very rarely eat out these days, maybe it is just getting older and cynical, but so many same old, same old, overpriced and overhyped restaurants don’t do it for me.Alternatively, maybe I am just a tight miserable old git!

 

[amexer]

Has anybody tried the new Ivy Asian restaurant in Brighton

 

[Springal]

Has anybody tried the new Ivy Asian restaurant in Brighton

No but I was on a train with a couple of staff from there discussing the specific training they have for ‘how to deal with famous people’ which put me off

 

[The Wookiee]

Paladar, SE1

The GLDHI and I met up with my younger daughter and her partner for dinner at this South American place for dinner.

What is GLDHI ??

 

[Goldstone1976]

What is GLDHI ??

It’s an acronym for my partner, first used on this thread 4 or 5 years ago.

 

[South west gull]

Has anybody tried the new Ivy Asian restaurant in Brighton

No but I've just seen in church rd hove a new pizza restaurant is opening soon

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[Herr Tubthumper]

Very rarely eat out these days, maybe it is just getting older and cynical, but so many same old, same old, overpriced and overhyped restaurants don’t do it for me.Alternatively, maybe I am just a tight miserable old git!

I feel a bit sad reading this. Where have you been which makes you feel this way?

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

On a very different level to many of the recent reviews, Mrs DCH and I thought we we would pop into the new German Doner Kebab place on North Street for a quick bite before going to the Komedia as we didn’t have much time.

The ordering setup is strange as you have to choose a table number but you don’t get given anything to reserve your table. The ordering menu system is not very user friendly. Whe we sat down to wait for our order to be brought over, the tables looked like they hadn’t been cleaned for a while.

Mrs DCH then noticed that the group on the next table seemed to be getting their food several minutes apart. The kitchen seemed more focused on making sure delivery orders went out rather than those in the restaurant. After waiting 15 minutes, I asked when my order would be ready, to be told, they hadn’t started it yet. I then asked, how long and they didn’t know so I asked for a refund and left.

The manager was apologetic and said he had four people not turn up for work. These things happen but if they warned people it wouldn’t be so bad. also, it is an open kitchen and there was no sense of urgency in there, lots of people standing around doing nothing.

If this is German efficiency, give me a proper Turkish or Greek place any day.

PLEASE say it was called Doner Und Blitzen

 

[Bakero]

PLEASE say it was called Doner Und Blitzen

That's your best post in years.

ps. Is everyone getting an "action done!" message when they give a thumbs up?

 

[Bakero]

Straits Kitchen, Pan Pacific Hotel, EC3A

I had dinner with my son the other night on his return from a year working in Singapore. He suggested SK.

SK tries to justify its expensive price tag, and fails miserably. For example…

The menu has a long list (8? 10?) of symbols indicating the allergens contained in each dish. You know, ‘C’ for gluten (turns out ‘C’ was for ‘Cereal containing gluten’, otherwise known as ‘wheat’), ‘M’ for milk, ‘CE’ for, err, ‘celery &/or celeriac’ etc. My son is coeliac, so ‘C’ was quite important. We ordered 4 sharing starters and 3 sharing mains, all without ‘C’. Cue return of waitress: ‘the menu is wrong for three of those dishes - they do contain gluten’…

… the champagne I ordered had not been chilled - at all. And the waiter poured a full glass without letting me taste it…

… the food was meh, at best…

…and on and on.

All of the bling, all of the superficial and easy things done ok. None of the reasons why I’d want to eat there done even acceptably, let alone well.

Still, James Knappett has just invited the GLDHI and I to have dinner at Kitchen Table foc in late September to celebrate 10 years since he and Sandia opened it. Now that should be the bollocks.

Going to a Singaporean resturant after a year in Singapore was a plan doomed to fail.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

On a very different level to many of the recent reviews, Mrs DCH and I thought we we would pop into the new German Doner Kebab place on North Street for a quick bite before going to the Komedia as we didn’t have much time.

The ordering setup is strange as you have to choose a table number but you don’t get given anything to reserve your table. The ordering menu system is not very user friendly. Whe we sat down to wait for our order to be brought over, the tables looked like they hadn’t been cleaned for a while.

Mrs DCH then noticed that the group on the next table seemed to be getting their food several minutes apart. The kitchen seemed more focused on making sure delivery orders went out rather than those in the restaurant. After waiting 15 minutes, I asked when my order would be ready, to be told, they hadn’t started it yet. I then asked, how long and they didn’t know so I asked for a refund and left.

The manager was apologetic and said he had four people not turn up for work. These things happen but if they warned people it wouldn’t be so bad. also, it is an open kitchen and there was no sense of urgency in there, lots of people standing around doing nothing.

If this is German efficiency, give me a proper Turkish or Greek place any day.

Wouldn’t happen in Germany.

 

[Goldstone1976]

Going to a Singaporean resturant after a year in Singapore was a plan doomed to fail.

Well, quite. I nearly said something, but discretion being the better part of valour won out.

 

[BLOCK F]

Has anybody tried the new Ivy Asian restaurant in Brighton

I haven’t, but a couple of friends of ours went with family recently and enjoyed it.

 

[BLOCK F]

I feel a bit sad reading this. Where have you been which makes you feel this way?

Hi Tubs,
I’m a bit of a hermit these days and don’t socialise or go out much at all. Perhaps I used up much of my sociability in my working life.To be honest, I think I have only eaten out once in a restaurant, pub or hotel restaurant in almost three years, so perhaps I shouldn’t have posted quite as I did. It was a bit tongue in cheek.
Anyway,as an example, we have a new Ivy restaurant recently opened near us, which looks very nice inside, but the menu appears so uninspiring and just doesn’t tempt me in any way at all. Perhaps the most over rated dining experience my wife and I have ever had was in Rick Stein’s Seafood Restaurant in Padstow. I had been there previously, before Rick became quite so well known and remember quite enjoying it, but that is all. We used to be frequent visitors to Padstow and last time we were there, I promised I would take my wife. At best, the food was mediocre and at worst, quite poor.The service was ok. Grossly overpriced and overhyped.There are better places to eat in Padstow and elsewhere. A completely different kind of place, but still fishy, is the Prawn on the Lawn, not cheap, but great fun and atmosphere. As well as the Padstow site, they also have one in North London.
Other dining experiences over the years must have been so ordinary that I can’t remember some of them!
,We are going down to Devon and Cornwall in October and looking forward to some decent food. At least the Falmouth Oyster Festival is on,so, at the very least we should be able to feast on those aphrodisiacal delights and even at my age, my luck might be in.

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

Hi Tubs,
I’m a bit of a hermit these days and don’t socialise or go out much at all. Perhaps I used up much of my sociability in my working life.To be honest, I think I have only eaten out once in a restaurant, pub or hotel restaurant in almost three years, so perhaps I shouldn’t have posted quite as I did. It was a bit tongue in cheek.
Anyway,as an example, we have a new Ivy restaurant recently opened near us, which looks very nice inside, but the menu appears so uninspiring and just doesn’t tempt me in any way at all. Perhaps the most over rated dining experience my wife and I have ever had was in Rick Stein’s Seafood Restaurant in Padstow. I had been there previously, before Rick became quite so well known and remember quite enjoying it, but that is all. We used to be frequent visitors to Padstow and last time we were there, I promised I would take my wife. At best, the food was mediocre and at worst, quite poor.The service was ok. Grossly overpriced and overhyped.There are better places to eat in Padstow and elsewhere. A completely different kind of place, but still fishy, is the Prawn on the Lawn, not cheap, but great fun and atmosphere. As well as the Padstow site, they also have one in North London.
Other dining experiences over the years must have been so ordinary that I can’t remember some of them!
,We are going down to Devon and Cornwall in October and looking forward to some decent food. At least the Falmouth Oyster Festival is on,so, at the very least we should be able to feast on those aphrodisiacal delights and even at my age, my luck might be in.

Love your final sentence!

 

[BLOCK F]

Love your final sentence!

I hope I’m not getting hope and expectation muddled up!

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Hi Tubs,
I’m a bit of a hermit these days and don’t socialise or go out much at all. Perhaps I used up much of my sociability in my working life.To be honest, I think I have only eaten out once in a restaurant, pub or hotel restaurant in almost three years, so perhaps I shouldn’t have posted quite as I did. It was a bit tongue in cheek.
Anyway,as an example, we have a new Ivy restaurant recently opened near us, which looks very nice inside, but the menu appears so uninspiring and just doesn’t tempt me in any way at all. Perhaps the most over rated dining experience my wife and I have ever had was in Rick Stein’s Seafood Restaurant in Padstow. I had been there previously, before Rick became quite so well known and remember quite enjoying it, but that is all. We used to be frequent visitors to Padstow and last time we were there, I promised I would take my wife. At best, the food was mediocre and at worst, quite poor.The service was ok. Grossly overpriced and overhyped.There are better places to eat in Padstow and elsewhere. A completely different kind of place, but still fishy, is the Prawn on the Lawn, not cheap, but great fun and atmosphere. As well as the Padstow site, they also have one in North London.
Other dining experiences over the years must have been so ordinary that I can’t remember some of them!
,We are going down to Devon and Cornwall in October and looking forward to some decent food. At least the Falmouth Oyster Festival is on,so, at the very least we should be able to feast on those aphrodisiacal delights and even at my age, my luck might be in.

Thanks for the response. When The Ivy opened in Brighton I said it looked a bit fur-coat-and-no-knickers; a short while later [MENTION=38]Beach Hut[/MENTION] confirmed this when he visited. I have never been to the original but when they started to open up across the country they became more focused on their bottom-line then the dining experience. Similar with Rick Stein I presume.

I know from recent experience on holiday how deflating a poor meal can feel. I did a lot of research when we went to Croatia recently but the most expensive restaurant we chose turned out to be the worst….the twin impact of a crap meal which was at least twice the price of any of the others we ate in left us very disappointed.

I don’t know where you live but maybe a tip on here might restore your faith in a nice meal out.

I love seafood so enjoy the oyster festival…and good “luck”

 

[BLOCK F]

Thanks for the response. When The Ivy opened in Brighton I said it looked a bit fur-coat-and-no-knickers; a short while later [MENTION=38]Beach Hut[/MENTION] confirmed this when he visited. I have never been to the original but when they started to open up across the country they became more focused on their bottom-line then the dining experience. Similar with Rick Stein I presume.

I know from recent experience on holiday how deflating a poor meal can feel. I did a lot of research when we went to Croatia recently but the most expensive restaurant we chose turned out to be the worst….the twin impact of a crap meal which was at least twice the price of any of the others we ate in left us very disappointed.

I don’t know where you live but maybe a tip on here might restore your faith in a nice meal out.

I love seafood so enjoy the oyster festival…and good “luck”

Thanks for that.
We live near Chichester and have enjoyed a decent meal at Purchases in the past.
My wife goes there for lunch with a friend now and again and always seems to enjoy it.

 

[Springal]

n to Devon and Cornwall in October and looking forward to some decent food. At least the Falmouth Oyster Festival is on,so, at the very least we should be able to feast on those aphrodisiacal delights and even at my age, my luck might be in.

Verdant (one of the UKs best craft beer breweries) have a tiny seafood restaurant in Falmouth. Check it out as the food was unreal when I went in 2020

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

Just booked myself and partner into the soft launch of Tutto, who else is in? I am excited.