Carvery Dinners

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.

youngblood

https://lovin.ie/food-2/these-spots-are-competing-for-title-of-best-carvery-in-ireland

Strumms

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

Doesn’t look like it’s going to be back… no mention of it on their site, no pics of it, nada… that was my ‘go to’ city centre carvery…. Really was excellent 🥺

cj maxx

Ah jayus, I love the carevery dinner.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Not living in Ireland, I do miss a nice carvery dinner....

thedart

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119572209#Comment_119572209

I’ll post you one. Max 20kg.

Wibbs

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119572030#Comment_119572030

😁 Yeah, probably, though my idea of hell is a cubicle tied office job. The problem these days with a few too many in "soft" office jobs is that they're not laying a couple hundred blocks, or floating 40cm3 of concrete, but are eating like they are.

Though as it turns out those actually working hard for a living are more likely to come down with type 2 diabetes than cubicle types. A condition that is very much based on eating the wrong stuff and too much of it. Exercise is the other major factor, but in people doing real work, where exercise is what they call "what we do on a daily basis pal", that's a lot less in play.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119572217#Comment_119572217

I can't imagine they travel all that well, but thanks for the offer!

Strumms

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119572118#Comment_119572118

I have to go into town on Friday to meet my cousin and decided to email the O’Neills management re the food options and in particular the carvery…

good news, it will be back, but in a few months… they are doing some sort of building works there apparently and will reopen after it’s finished.

Sgt Hartman

The best carvery I ever had was from Madigan's pub in Abbey Street Dublin. It a big mountain of delicious ham and mushroom pie with mashed potato, roast potato and loads of veggies for around €12. I could barely move after it. A close second was the Glenside Hotel just before going into Drogheda. They had lamb shanks in rosemary and red wine gravy. My belly is rumbling right now just thinking about it.

mojesius

I love a good carvery drowned in gravy.