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Title: Do British pubs typically serve restaurant quality food?
Post by: Pseudoscience-is-malarkey on 04/08/2022 07:56:47

I often hear brits discussing having their meals at pubs, so it must not be that bad.

Title: Re: Do British pubs typically serve restaurant quality food?
Post by: SeanB on 04/08/2022 12:04:32

Pub food can be wildly variable, from some just doing stuff that is basically a reheated commercial pie and instant gravy with microwave chips, to some being near chef level cooking with quality ingredients.

Title: Re: Do British pubs typically serve restaurant quality food?
Post by: alancalverd on 04/08/2022 17:56:01

There has been a massive change in my lifetime, following tighter drink-driving legislation. In my youth, pub food was a grudging addition to encourage lunchtime drinking. With decreasing consumption of alcohol, and increasing competition from supermarkets, the majority of pubs have at least increased the scale and variety of their offerings and a good many are now really restaurants with decent draught beer and a dartboard. My chef son produces Michelin-star food in pubs.

Title: Re: Do British pubs typically serve restaurant quality food?
Post by: Bored chemist on 04/08/2022 20:29:44

If you pick a slightly odd definition of "restaurant" all a pub needs to do is outperform Greggs.
I'm not saying there's anything wrong with them but they aren't really "haute cuisine".
https://www.statista.com/statistics/950444/most-popular-restaurant-brands-in-the-united-kingdom-uk/