eating out - what kind of food do you go for?

Andy From Sligo

When you go out for a meal what kind of a meal appeals to you?:

Pretentious - where nothing meets on a plate and hardly fills you up - but costs an arm and a leg!:


Or look at this, how could you turn this down? - this is what i go for:


or just plain and simple fast food?:


Or curry maybe?:


Chinese take-away?

ceadaoin.

All of the above depending on what I fancy

harry Bailey esq

All the meals pictured above would suffice, I just clicked into the thread due to its somewhat suggestive title.

Partial to an Indian, for the variety of flavours.

murpho999

Could you post bigger pictures as I can't make them out?

Foweva Awone

Generally Mexican or Italian if I'm eating out, Indian if I'm getting delivery.

Andy From Sligo

i'm getting rather boring and repetitive - if i go out for a meal the main will be Steak and chips - my least would be the top photo

and if I were to order in Chinese it would be Chicken Cow-mein . I must start getting more adventurous , however having GERD for years its put paid to a lot of spicy food and the like. I'd love it but most probably be dying with indigestion and heartburn later on

meeeeh

First or second, almost never any others on the list.

SEPT 23 1989

Two and four please bob

Andy From Sligo

murpho999 wrote: »

Could you post bigger pictures as I can't make them out?

sorry

shame boards dont have a re-size picture where you could put in the IMG tag what size you want the pictures ... or do they and I just dont know?

QueenMTBee

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

and if I were to order in Chinese it would be Chicken Cow-mein

Freudian slip perhaps! Pretty sure it's Chow-mein!!!

murpho999

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

sorry

shame boards dont have a re-size picture where you could put in the IMG tag what size you want the pictures ... or do they and I just dont know?

Well I would not dismiss the first one as it's probably a starter and it's about quality and innovation.

2 is a completely different idea and looks good but the portion size is crazy.

Austria!

I want one where there's all different bits of dinners and I taste them all.

And no waiters who insist on pouring water. I'm an adult.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Anything except Chinese or Indian. Preference is Steak and Chips but it depends on where I am and the occasion.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Italian. Both at home and eating out.

I'm eating Italian food 4-5 days a week on average.

igCorcaigh

Nachos with all the works. Too much effort and bother to buy and prepare all the sides at home.

Curries, dahls, roti, paratha... because I just cannot create real Indian flavours at home.

One of nicest and simplest things I've had was a beef broth that came on the house with our meal in Cuba. That takes time and effort that I will never attempt, but have never come across a classic beef broth in Ireland.

Humphrey BoaGart

Liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.

Amirani

I love cooking, so when I'm eating out it will only be stuff that I'm not capable of preparing myself. So mostly just number 1 from your list, but there are variations on that that aren't Michelin Star. Very hard to prepare top-class pizza at home without a pizza oven for example.

ceadaoin.

Also, pizza. Can't go wrong with that

yourdeadwright

Sushi or Thai when I go out ,
At home Pizza and a Chinese or Indian

mosstin

Without the images, I wouldn't know what a curry was. Appreciated.

neris

for ease and knowing we,ll get a table the local chinese. Were not too far away from a good selection of restaurants but trying to get into some of them at weekends or during the summer is a nightmare and under pressure to get out

harry Bailey esq

And as for plate #1 Andy.. T'was far from Sligo reared anyone who'd consider that dinner.

Andy From Sligo

can anyone even name/recognise Number 1 ? - no prizes for guessing it ) - it could be beef ?

Andy From Sligo

harry Bailey esq wrote: »

And as for plate #1 Andy.. T'was far from Sligo reared anyone who'd consider that dinner.

I know, it would be chikin' filleh' rolls ...

_Kaiser_

All of them except option 1. It depends on my mood

Andy From Sligo

Austria! wrote: »

I want one where there's all different bits of dinners and I taste them all. .

.. oh yeah - excellent suggestion

- and is there anything worse than ordering something , eating it and thinking "I wish I would have stuck with the other dish now"

Assetbacked

Prefer to pay to be filled, not with rice or noodles but with bread and/or potatoes - Pizza, burgers etc.

Andy From Sligo

has anyone had their meal brought to them on a shovel?

I have had a steak brought out to our table on a hot stone, that was lovely though - Clerery Mill in sligo.

The wife told me the other day about - "Drunken Bullock: Spiced fillet steak served on a sword & flambéed with Irish whiskey!" from Belleek Castle in Ballina , sounds amazing...

Andy From Sligo

mosstin wrote: »

Without the images, I wouldn't know what a curry was. Appreciated.

well you never know ...

Andy From Sligo

in the celtic tiger days when we ordered a Chinese Take-Away we got a free 2ltr bottle of coke ...

Pretzeluck

Pussy

Church on Tuesday

All apart from the pretentious nonsense.

irishguitarlad

Either an Indian, or tapas that cost 2.50-3.00 each and they're ****ing huge. Usually go for the fried dogfish, fried cod and some fried anchovies along with an auld piece of spanish tortilla washed down with a glass of cruzcampo beer.

Andy From Sligo

If I were forced I might have the pretentious number 1 (if someone else were paying ) - .. but then i would most probably need to sink my teef into a big dirty kebab later on ..

OldMrBrennan83

Curry. But take away is my eating out, I don't like actually eating out.

WhiteMemento9

I usually try to order something that I never or would very rarely cook myself.

AllForIt

One think I will never understand is when I see my friends ordering a burger in a proper restaurant. I can't understand how will all thats on offer one would choose a bog standard burger with chunky chips and the like. It's like an Indian going to an English restaurant and ordering a curry.

OldMrBrennan83

AllForIt wrote: »

One think I will never understand is when I see my friends ordering a burger in a proper restaurant. I can't understand how will all thats on offer one would choose a bog standard burger with chunky chips and the like. It's like an Indian going to an English restaurant and ordering a curry.

Depends if you're buying or not.

MiliMe

Speaking of pretentiousness...
Recently went to an awfully fancy restaurant that my OH was forever raving about where the "chefs" serve your food to you.
Now I'm all for being a bit fancy every now and then but come off it, do you really expect me to believe that these two women with perfect hair/makeup and gleaming chef whites are there as anything but waitresses!!!
As for eating out, it's be door number 2 for me. Indians and Chinese are more for sitting at home watching a film.

Andy From Sligo

AllForIt wrote: »

One think I will never understand is when I see my friends ordering a burger in a proper restaurant. I can't understand how will all thats on offer one would choose a bog standard burger with chunky chips and the like. It's like an Indian going to an English restaurant and ordering a curry.

or the Brits going to Lanzarote and ordering English Breakfast

Archeron

Austria! wrote: »

I want one where there's all different bits of dinners and I taste them all.

And no waiters who insist on pouring water. I'm an adult.

I did that in south Africa. They had a food from every country in Africa, taste anything and unlimited amounts of what you like. I ate my body weight in Ethiopian chicken wings