Carvery Dinners

thedart

Are they still on the go? Hard to beat a good carvery when on the road and trying to make time.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058261665/carvery-dinners

Dunno what exactly a carvery dinner means these days, but I recently had something that looked a bit carvery-esque in the Poitin Stil in Rathcoole. I enjoyed it.

uch

If there's no cake involved I'm not interested

Riddle101

Yeah, plenty of Carvery Dinners if you know where to go. I've been to the Poitin Stil a few times and they do a Sunday Carvery there. There's Darcy McGees at Spawell in Templeogue. The Red Cow Inn does a Sunday Carvery as well. Just to name a few.

Strumms

Always been a fan of a ‘good’ carvery

The Yacht, Clontarf

The Halfway House, Ashtown

O’Neills, Suffolk St.

O’Dwyers, Portmarnock

Nice to roll in there, get a big plate of grub, drinks and if room, dessert.

freshpopcorn

Has something happened to Boards.ie lately. We've had the re hash of the washing new clothes, shoe policy in your house, how often do you shower and now the carvery dinner thread.

Gremlinertia

The great reset?

Aongus Von Bismarck had strong opinions on carveries. Negative opinions. Describing a line of ugly overweight people queuing to be served up the same sort of food they could make at home if they weren’t so lazy.

Whatever happened to him I wonder.

I like em the odd time - it’s the 4 types of potatoes that seals the deal.

Wanderer2010

Of course carvery dinners are popular. Look at the social media pages of pubs and hotels up and down the country. Any of the decent ones will be offering carvery dinners and with so much choice they have to push themselves to stand out from the crowd.

Its particularly handy when heading around the country on business to just pop in to a hotel or pub and get lunch or dinner sorted.

pappyodaniel

I never liked carvery food. You can taste and smell all the other food from your dinner, probably because it's all contained under the same heat lamps. Plus the clientele who frequent these joints look like they've already given up on life.

Strumms

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119564130#Comment_119564130

That last line..

these joints are basically around 90% of the pubs in the country…🫢😂

” they have the given up on life look, they went to that pub and ordered the roast beef from the carvery “

French Toast

Yep, still very common. Not to everyone's taste but it's hard to complain when you get a full plate of decent grub for €12.50.

Two great ones I can remember are the Falls Hotel, Ennistymon and Gullanes in Ballinasloe.

SEPT 23 1989

its good ballast

SoapMcTavish

Barrack Obama Plaza Carvery .. noms. I assume the other plaza group locations have the same.

0ph0rce0

A carvery dinner is close to 20 quid a plate around our way in the pubs. Prices gone mad.

I like it the odd time. The meat and mash/roast potatoes always seem to be spot on but the veg is always shite.

Cheap frozen crap with no seasoning or flavour and just tons of excess water.

If they sorted out the veg it'd be perfect.

Strumms

I concur on the prices, a lot of them have gone too expensive, a plate of food that you collect and bring to your seat.

restaurant prices in some cases…I think 11-12 euros is or should be absolute tops for a large plate….the only thing costing the pub money food wise is the meat, veg costs them feck all…

2-3 chefs, a server, maybe 2, …..lounge staff and bar staff are in situ anyway.

a pub near me must serve around 250-300 carvery dinners between 12 and 3. That’s a conservative guess.

if the average spend with drinks or dessert is 20 euros…that’s up to around 6000 euros a day and on Sunday double it.

guts of 50 grand a week…

trashcan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119563349#Comment_119563349

I agree with Angus. If you’re eating out, why would you choose a carvery ? I can do nicer at home.

As an overweight, no-oil painting myself, person, I wouldn’t comment on that aspect 😊

Wanderer2010

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119564130#Comment_119564130

People who get carvery dinners have given up on life?

In a very, very populated list, that is easily one of the most stupid, ignorant and downright illogical sentences i have ever read.

Elessar

Had a tasty carvery dinner in the Coachmans beside Dublin airport yesterday, delicious. They do it daily with lots of options and a half plate is only €10.50 but they pile it high so it might aswell be a full dinner. If you're in Dublin city O'Neill's on suffolk street do a lovely one daily aswell.

Love a good carvery.

Strumms

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119564486#Comment_119564486

was in the Coachman’s last week. Excellent grub, huge portions and superb staff… +1 for oNeills.

thedart

I’ll try coachman’s when in Dublin next week, sounds good.

murpho999

People seem to judge carvery food by the size of the portion rather than then quality. Most places serve cheap reheated food and pretend to have chefs working there when in reality they just buy tehnstuff in cooked and heat it up.

Best avoided in my opinion. I actually find a lot of pub food unimaginative. Outside of carvery it’s usually burgers, curry and salmon. Prefer to eat in local cafes and restaurants.

That generic menu you get in most pubs - chowder, wings, goats cheese to start, burgers, fish and chips, salmon, some sort of curry for mains is delivered from the back of a Musgraves truck each morning. Pretty much a reheat and serve operation.

Viscount Aggro

Manowar, North county Dublin.

They do a carvery sandwich with chips for a tenner. It's the business.

moslo

Carvery dinners seem to have really shot up in price since the first Covid lockdown, they used to be €12.50 and now they are typically €16 near me. What's more, carvery counters and counter services were restricted during the pandemic and some never restarted after the restrictions were lifted which has meant less competition in my local town.

Doe Tiden

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119563172#Comment_119563172

We are just missing a “I found a safe in my backyard” thread

Pissy Missy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119569684#Comment_119569684

A treasure chest wouldn't go a miss

CGI_Livia_Soprano

I have a friend who loves carvery dinners. He’s one of those painfully middle class people who thinks paying fifteen euros for a cremated chunk of beef, potato lumps, and a ladle of chunky Bisto gravy makes him look “humble” and down to earth.

What does bring him down to Earth is when I point out that stuff is muck, and for the same price you can rustle up a much better “simple” meal, with just a few ingredients, for three to five people.

Honestly eating in any restaurant is a waste of time but particularly so when you’re eating shït food.

thedart

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119570020#Comment_119570020

The water cooler chats must be amazing.

Strumms

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119570020#Comment_119570020

Ffs.

people who want to eat a carvery meal, want to eat out… not stay home and rustle up anything or clean up after.

carvery is muck ? It simply isn’t..

thedart

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119570295#Comment_119570295

That poster is upper class you know 🙄

salmocab

Some odd judgements going on, I don’t like carvery but a few years back on a building site a few of the apprentices were talking about going for a carvery on a Sunday afternoon, not together to be clear they were just talking about how they love going for a carvery on a Sunday which I thought odd for a bunch of 18-22 year olds.

CGI_Livia_Soprano

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119570306#Comment_119570306

Far from it, I am as working class as it gets. My point is that it’s better to prepare your own meals using fresh ingredients than eating slop that’s been heated under a lightbulb. The gravy has a skin on it it’s disgusting.

Jarhead_Tendler

Carvery dinners are below me.

thedart

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119570349#Comment_119570349

You are gone to dairy altogether.

mikeybhoy

Always thought carvery is the kind of food that's not eaten for taste but rather purely for fuel similar to the food served to workers in communist countries.

The smell of the stuff in a pub is enough to put me off. Wouldn't consider the pubs that serve this kind of stuff as real pubs either. Always served in massive pubs with equally massive carparks to match.

I'd go for chipper or McDonald's/BK anyway of the week over carvery. At least chipper food is actually tasty.

Wibbs

Only the other say I was travelling across the country with a mate of mine and he suggested a place where they do a nice carvery. He'd be on the roads of Ireland a lot so knew a few places to get pub grub. I hadn't had one in years. Jaysus the portions were huge, but I couldn't whinge about the price. 12 quid all up. I was hungry so ate most of it. He'd be the kinda lad that would lick the pattern off a plate so he ate the lot. Actually it was tasty enough and filling isn't in it.

No way could I eat that amount of food in one go more than once or twice a year though. I walked out of there pregnant with a food baby and let's just say I haven't gone into labour yet... My guts aren't the better of it. Shocked into silence and I've barely eaten anything since.😬 Eating that kind of thing and at that quantity on a regular basis can't be anywhere close to good for you.

Leg End Reject

I'm looking forward to Wibb's "debut" in the etiquette thread.😁

thedart

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119570587#Comment_119570587

Are you telling me the carvery you ate was bigger than the dinners your parents used cook for you?

Wibbs

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119570767#Comment_119570767

Way bigger. Save for Christmas dinners and the like. None of my family were/are big eaters. Don't have big appetites.

thedart

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119570969#Comment_119570969

You should have got the kids portion.

Strumms

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119570352#Comment_119570352

If they are above you it makes them much harder to eat.

emo72

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119569684#Comment_119569684

I loved the thread about the guy that found the goldfinch chick and raised it and it became part of his family. I get all nostalgic for the old days.

Wibbs

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119571014#Comment_119571014

Oh yeah, I've asked for that before alright. Or of it's a proper restaurant with courses on offer I generally just have the main. Plus though I hate the idea of food waste, I don't feel the need to leave the plate clean, so will stop when I'm full up(growing up I never heard my parents say finish your dinner or anything like that. If I was full I was full and that was that). On this occasion I hadn't really eaten the previous day so figured what the hell, dig in. 😁 Though I did leave food on the plate. It was just more than I'd be used to on a daily basis and on a single sitting.

retalivity

I was in O'neillss of Suffolk st a month ago and the carvers was gone, is it back now ? Used to be savage. Sinnotts at Stephen's green is another belter for a feed.

Strumms

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119571950#Comment_119571950

If you are around Suffolk St O’Neills is class.. or certainly was last time I’m there… being going there 12 years so imagine still is.

retalivity

Sorry I meant o'neills...end of July I was in and there was no carvery

billyhead

The Jackson hotel on Harcourt street do a nice carvery.

thedart

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119571815#Comment_119571815

If you had a couple hundred blocks to lay or 40cm3 concrete to float you would be eating that carvery. Soft with office job.

rob316

Haven't had one in years, you'd need a sleep after eating one for lunch and heading back to the office for the afternoon.

A good carvery is hard to find, it's real quantity over quality in most.

Strumms

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119572012#Comment_119572012

Strange, that carvery is going 20 plus years… was always popular, very well done, was always delicious and plentiful too….

very surprised as there used be very few drinkers there during the day, around 80% of the clientele were getting carvery.