Are Carvery Lunches a thing of the past? (Someone can't handle their portions!)

yogi37 wrote: »

Ah Diceys. ..20c for a glass of water

Whao- Is that even legal? I know it’s only a few cents- but I’ve never been asked to pay for tap water - even when it has lime or whatever in it it’s still generally complementary.

Samuri Suicide wrote: »

If you want decent food then it will be cooked to order....otherwise you are describing fast food places and carverys etc.
Eating healthy food that is tasty and decent doesn't revolve around the Irish method of loading a plate with warm meat and soggy veg telling each other its a "good feed" Thankfully this attitude is dying out....like mass and double collections.

Meh, take a photo of yer sushi n stick it up on Instagram for the wannabes to like. I'll stick to me carvery ta

Samuri Suicide wrote: »

If you want decent food then it will be cooked to order....otherwise you are describing fast food places and carverys etc.
Eating healthy food that is tasty and decent doesn't revolve around the Irish method of loading a plate with warm meat and soggy veg telling each other its a "good feed" Thankfully this attitude is dying out....like mass and double collections.

I think you are only seeing what you want to see.

Regular carvery's are still extremely popular.

Maybe you or your circles don't go but plenty of others do!

Sure there was this type of talk about Cravery's during the Celtic Tiger as well....
Carvery's are dying etc...

If anything I think carvery's are getting stronger.
Great value in an otherwise overpriced food industry 'cafe culture' and the likes.

You may not like it.

Although you seem to equate carvery's with backwardness (for some odd reason only known to yourself).

There will always be a market for good value and practicality, and not just passing fads.

Couscous and avocados would not really set me up for the day.

Stephen15 wrote: »

Maybe in twenty years time carverys will become hipstery. Hipster restaurants might also think it's trendy to serve food on plates while regular restaurants will still serve food on slates and chips in baskets.

Yeah people are funny you could be right.

Carvery's are good value wholesome food
Maybe the poster in question who seems to be horrified by a carvery got sick at mass after he ate one too fast?

Is that why he/she equates it to mass and it is going to die out?

It is almost like someone saying

'Oh look people enjoying themselves:

Tsk they are enjoying themsleves incorrectly how dare they!?'

Personally I think life is too short for an attitude like that.

If someone prefers a few avocados and a latte, instead of a pint of stout and a carvery it would not make me descend into a rage.

Smirk slightly maybe, but I would not be overly fussed.

gmisk wrote: »

Ó Neills in Suffolk Street do one

Yes, a mediocre one.

ozmo wrote: »

Whao- Is that even legal? I know it’s only a few cents- but I’ve never been asked to pay for tap water - even when it has lime or whatever in it it’s still generally complementary.

I presume it must be legal although I reckon Diecys is the only place in Ireland that charge for tap water. They introduced the 20c for water when the water charges were coming in. That was even though businesses already pay water charges as far as I am aware. There was a whole furore about it in the press. Every article in relation to it also mentioned that the cost of a full carvery dinner is only €6. Was a pretty impressive marketing ploy for all that free advertising. I'm sure business increased after all those damning reports about charging customers for tap water.

gormdubhgorm wrote: »

I think you are only seeing what you want to see.

Regular carvery's are still extremely popular.

Maybe you or your circles don't go but plenty of others do!

Sure there was this type of talk about Cravery's during the Celtic Tiger as well....
Carvery's are dying etc...

If anything I think carvery's are getting stronger.
Great value in an otherwise overpriced food industry 'cafe culture' and the likes.

You may not like it.

Although you seem to equate carvery's with backwardness (for some odd reason only known to yourself).

There will always be a market for good value and practicality, and not just passing fads.

Couscous and avocados would not really set me up for the day.

I think in general it's only people who like meat and two veg type of food that would really enjoy carveries (Not carvery's) and I think eventually they'll become less popular as Ireland's taste of food has changed and there are lot more options around than carveries which was you could get years ago.

murpho999 wrote: »

I think in general it's only people who like meat and two veg type of food that would really enjoy carveries (Not carvery's) and I think eventually they'll become less popular as Ireland's taste of food has changed and there are lot more options around than carveries which was you could get years ago.

I'd rather a carvery than an expensive, artistic, microscopic splodge on a plate, or hipster food served on timber boards and bits of slate.

murpho999 wrote: »

I think in general it's only people who like meat and two veg type of food that would really enjoy carveries (Not carvery's) and I think eventually they'll become less popular as Ireland's taste of food has changed and there are lot more options around than carveries which was you could get years ago.

I am not sure I think you are underestimating the power of rural Ireland, and a lot of those end up moving to Dublin the cycle continues.

Also as people get older I think they will move towards carveries (I was wondering was 'carvery's' wrong you think I would know since I eat the things).

There is too much value in a carvey they have special rates for OAP's in most places so they can spend about 7/8 euro.

I can't think of anything of anything else that is of such value and healthy too.

I think what has more chance of changing carveries is people who are in Ireland from other countries.
Once the balance becomes more mixed there might be more of a change in eating habits.

Far from dying out, half-decent carvery grub is all over the place now to the degree that we hardly even notice it. There are at least four places doing very good carvery within an ass's roar of my house, a couple more on the way to the office.

Mind you, I'm of an ilk and vintage that remembers when it was quite possible to starve to death on a Sunday out around the Provinces, when all you had was a car and a wallet full of money. :pac:

frozenfrozen wrote: »

I would do damage to a big plate of food now

I agree.

I am having a carvery later on this thread has made me hungry, I might even get a full portion!

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

Halfway House on Navan Road side of Phoenix Park used do a savage carvery. Anyone know if it is still going?

Still going , place does a big trade

Joe prim wrote: »

Apparently the Pope will be calling for a return to the traditional carvery when he visits here, and will issue an encyclical entitled Eatus Dinnerus in Mid Deus.

Himself and myself would be on the one page in that regard. I'm a big fan of the Farmer's Dinner around 12pm.