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

Andy From Sligo · 15-11-2018 04:23PM #1

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:
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or just plain and simple fast food?:

Or curry maybe?:
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Chinese take-away?

ceadaoin. · 15-11-2018 04:41PM

All of the above depending on what I fancy

harry Bailey esq · 15-11-2018 04:46PM

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

15-11-2018 04:47PM

Partial to an Indian, for the variety of flavours.

murpho999 · 15-11-2018 04:47PM

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

Foweva Awone · 15-11-2018 04:47PM

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

Andy From Sligo · 15-11-2018 04:48PM

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 · 15-11-2018 04:48PM

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

SEPT 23 1989 · 15-11-2018 04:50PM

Two and four please bob

Andy From Sligo · 15-11-2018 04:50PM

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 · 15-11-2018 04:54PM

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 · 15-11-2018 04:55PM

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! · 15-11-2018 04:55PM

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 · 15-11-2018 04:56PM

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

DEFTLEFTHAND · 15-11-2018 04:56PM

Italian. Both at home and eating out.

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

igCorcaigh · 15-11-2018 05:00PM

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 · 15-11-2018 05:01PM

Liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.

Amirani · 15-11-2018 05:03PM

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. · 15-11-2018 05:03PM

Also, pizza. Can't go wrong with that

yourdeadwright · 15-11-2018 05:05PM

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

mosstin · 15-11-2018 05:07PM

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

neris · 15-11-2018 05:07PM

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 · 15-11-2018 05:27PM

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

Andy From Sligo · 15-11-2018 05:37PM

can anyone even name/recognise Number 1 ? - no prizes for guessing it

) - it could be beef ?

Andy From Sligo · 15-11-2018 05:39PM

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_ · 15-11-2018 05:40PM

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

Andy From Sligo · 15-11-2018 05:41PM

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 · 15-11-2018 05:41PM

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

Andy From Sligo · 15-11-2018 05:47PM

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 · 15-11-2018 06:19PM

mosstin wrote: »

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

well you never know ...

Andy From Sligo · 15-11-2018 06:20PM

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

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

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