Carvery Food

osarusan · 26-07-2015 08:51PM

Candie wrote: »

A decent carvery is fine for what you pay for it. You don't go to a carvery expecting a fine dining experience, you go for basic food at a value price, and some carveries do that very well and some not so much.

It probably helps that I like meat well done and I love roasties, but if your tastes are so sophisticated that a carvery is beneath you, then just don't go to one.

I enjoy almost every meal that I don't have to cook.

NO. THERE IS NO MIDDLE GROUND.

Stheno · 26-07-2015 08:54PM

Candie wrote: »

A decent carvery is fine for what you pay for it. You don't go to a carvery expecting a fine dining experience, you go for basic food at a value price, and some carveries do that very well and some not so much.

It probably helps that I like meat well done and I love roasties, but if your tastes are so sophisticated that a carvery is beneath you, then just don't go to one.

I enjoy almost every meal that I don't have to cook.

I spend a lot of time eating out due to the work I do, and it's usually carvery when I do (I get sent to eat in specific places )

It can be great

My local go to place does a great carvery with seven or eight options on a Sunday and does half portions that people like me can go for if you've a smaller appetite. Well cooked al dente veg, roasties, mash, yorkshires.

Means Of Escape · 26-07-2015 08:57PM

great for the economy overall

26-07-2015 08:58PM

osarusan wrote: »

NO. THERE IS NO MIDDLE GROUND.

This is only true when discussing butter vs dairyspread, or Barrys vs Lyons tea.

Everything else can be compromised on!

Polly Sonic · 26-07-2015 09:05PM

Means Of Escape wrote: »

Carvery experience ---
1) fill a hole banquet of stodgy rice or hairy bacon
2) queue with tray akin to prison life
3) jostle for a seat or get someone to go ahead and you carry the two trays
4) play spot the wine competition as tap water is the choice of the day
5) observe the folk spooning the food into their gobs at a rapid rate
6)have a sip of boiled coffee that's been on the hob for 6 hours .
7) head up for the choice of fancies only found in a geriatrics hospital
8)return filleting Sunday for "boiled to rags veg" and "boot leather beef supreme"
A tip in the form of don't back a three legged horse as you leave .
Belch as you sit in the car and say sweet Jesus .

Yes because only one type of person goes to a carvery and all the food is the exact same in every place :rolleyes:

Summer wind · 26-07-2015 09:08PM

I'm grand eating any dinner I don't have to cook myself. Roast turkey and ham with chips then a lovely slice of chocolate fudge cake with cream and ice cold club orange to drink. Lovelyjubbly.

26-07-2015 09:11PM

Summer wind wrote: »

I'm grand eating any dinner I don't have to cook myself. Roast turkey and ham with chips then a lovely slice of chocolate fudge cake with cream and ice cold club orange to drink. Lovelyjubbly.

Sometimes you just want something filling and simple. Not every dining out experience has to be four courses of master chef heaven on a plate.

The way people are going on about it makes it sound like a worse option than McDonalds.

Collie D · 26-07-2015 09:19PM

Went out for brunch this afternoon in the latest trendy bruncherie. Nothing against brunch but reading this thread made me realise I'd have loved a good carvery.

Back to basics from now on. Fry on Sunday morning and dead cow with gravy for lunch. Maybe Chinese in the evening.

26-07-2015 09:20PM

Collie D wrote: »

Went out for brunch this afternoon in the latest trendy bruncherie. Nothing against brunch but reading this thread made me realise I'd have loved a good carvery.

Back to basics from now on. Fry on Sunday morning and dead cow with gravy for lunch. Maybe Chinese in the evening.

And a heart attack to start the week on Monday!

Collie D · 26-07-2015 09:26PM

Candie wrote: »

And a heart attack to start the week on Monday!

Nah, I used that excuse last Monday. They'd never fall for it again

noway12345 · 26-07-2015 09:28PM

Whenever I eat out I buy stuff off the eurosaver menu in McDonalds. Eating carvery is the stuff of dreams.

kfallon · 26-07-2015 09:32PM

Loads of cabbage please! I like a good carvery every now and then!

branie2 · 26-07-2015 10:21PM

I enjoy a good carvery now and then

homerjay2005 · 26-07-2015 10:26PM

O neills in suffolk street do the best carvery in town.

osarusan · 26-07-2015 10:29PM

I haven't eaten one in a long long time.

If I'm going out to eat, I'll try to choose a place/food that I would not be able to cook at home, or something with unusual ingredients of some kind.

foggy_lad · 26-07-2015 10:29PM

Why is it that Irish people add a big basket of chips to every carvery meal?

JONJO THE MISER · 26-07-2015 10:32PM

Will be at the Galway races all week, a good feed of a carvery with a pint of milk then off to the races having a feed of drink for the day and a snackbox before bed.

FortySeven · 26-07-2015 10:33PM

foggy_lad wrote: »

Why is it that Irish people add a big basket of chips to every carvery meal?

Because we can? Who would EVER turn down chips? Food of the gods.

OldMrBrennan83 · 26-07-2015 10:36PM

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mfceiling · 26-07-2015 10:42PM

Can all the people here who have eaten "great" carverys, please name them and their location.

I find myself in some fairly random locations at times and a really great carvery could hit the spot.

Ted_YNWA · 26-07-2015 10:48PM

Whiford Hotel in Wexford do a great one.

Cilin Hill in Kilkenny - Langtons own it.

few other places, can't think offhand.

ringadingding · 26-07-2015 11:09PM

As a chef of many years who preaches on about full traceability, local produce and using seasonal ingredients of the highest standards to my staff I don't mind revealing that a carvery is my guilty pleasure

My wife and I eat in all manner of good places and have huge respect for standards.

But once in a while you just need a slice of lamb, a few blackned crispy ends of beef, a spoon of lasagne, veg, mash, roasties and a few chips with half a spoon of coleslaw on one plate.

We even stopped for one in moneygall today after a high end foodie tour of Kerry, but unfortunately it was a crap carvery.

Any good carvery tips for Dublin would be greatly appreciated - for a friend

OldMrBrennan83 · 26-07-2015 11:13PM

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McGrath5 · 26-07-2015 11:26PM

homerjay2005 wrote: »

O neills in suffolk street do the best carvery in town.

True, I've only been once and it was a mighty feed.

The Yacht in Clontarf serves up a decent carvery to.

Links234 · 27-07-2015 12:03AM

mfceiling wrote: »

Can all the people here who have eaten "great" carverys, please name them and their location.

The Skeff in Galway

Polly Sonic · 27-07-2015 12:04AM

The Clayton Hotel near Dublin airport does a quality carvery as does The Coachman's Inn just outside Swords. The Red Cow Inn ain't bad either.

Pherekydes · 27-07-2015 12:10AM

Lots of food snobs on this thread. I guess they would only eat fare that would be served up to the judges on Masterchef.

Had roast chicken, Yorkshire pud, roast spuds, new baby potatoes, carrots and broccoli with gravy today. Everyone loved it.

We had it at home.

Stheno · 27-07-2015 12:29AM

Polly Sonic wrote: »

The Clayton Hotel near Dublin airport does a quality carvery as does The Coachman's Inn just outside Swords. The Red Cow Inn ain't bad either.

Personally think the coachmans is foul, kettles between swords and ashbourne is pretty good but heaving with children on a Sunday

Mint Aero · 27-07-2015 12:34AM

Funny the way Irish people sound cockney at the thoughts of food. Must stem from famine times when people pretended to be British in a vain attempt to get food.

*don't give a toss about historical accuracies, so don't waste your breath*

Novella · 27-07-2015 12:45AM

One of the things I miss most about Ireland is being able to go out for a good ol' carvery dinner. Sometimes you just can't beat it. I'd love one right now, extra roasties!

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