Carveries

MrGG13 will not go to a carvery or any type of "buffet" restaurant. We have just come back from a very old traditional country pub, where we had a very good roast lunch.

I cook a roast or we go out for a roast every Sunday even when it is just the two of us, apart from the summer months when it will be BBQ at ours or one of the AC.

Jane10 , well I always say I am a lousy proof reader!

may i ask if there is anything provided for vegetarians apart from the vegetables obviously i fancy trying a carvery but dont want to get there and find i cannot eat anything

Our grandchildren are usually with us every second week-end and they love a roast dinner so I like to oblige them and have mastered gluten free Yorkshire puddings for my gd. I've had varying roasts at country pubs, but not lately. Did have an excellent roast dinner at a lovely garden centre near b and s-law a while back.

I'm with MrGG13 step away.

Bet you liked school dinners as well andycameron

I think carveries are so hit and miss. Some are very poor - tiny, wafer thin portions of meat and crusty pre-made
stuffing balls of (dry) thyme which are like little cannonballs, with frozen roast potatoes, rock hard cauliflower with a watery layer posing as cheese sauce and tasteless air-ball Yorkshire puddings. Oh often stringy leeks too.

We have a few that always deliver a superb roast though. The proprietors pride themselves on high standards. They cost a bit more but the food is very good and beautifully cooked. The person carving is generous with the meat.

In chain-pub carveries a turkey or joint of beef has to feed so many people. Two wafer thin, very small slices of turkey were put on my plate last time. Portion control is stingy. (My OH joked in the last poor place that the meat was of biblical proportions. He reckoned the chap doing the carving intended to feed the five thousand.)

I always enjoy a roast dinner much more when I haven't had to cook it! A good roast is wonderful.Feeling hungry now!

sounds great

a nice roast dinner

Labazs there are usually a couple of vegetarian options available at carveries. My DD doesn’t eat meat, but always finds something to her taste.

Just back from DD who cooked a lovely roast dinner, so no mucky pots to wash up ?
Must say I also enjoyed the salad bath

Almost every restaurant nowadays offers a vegetarian option - and often vegan as well. Most carveries, or at least every one I go to, offers its ordinary menu alongside the carvery. I often choose a main course not based on meat or fish, not because I am vegetarian or anything near it, I am an omnivore, but because it is the vegetarian dish that most appeals to me.

Day6 I think you get what you pay for, the less expensive the meal, the less you get. We usually go to pubs that are either independent or part of a small local chain and where the cost of the carvery is nearer £15 than £10.

I do love a good roast, but find that I cook them less and less these days. Monica I just assumed you were taking both hygiene and healthy eating to whole new level with your “salad bath”

Try getting away without a Sunday roast with my son and the children! It is easy to cook really. Just vegetables, roast potatoes and meat etc. Also what I like is that Mr LD cooks it all, if I do the yorkshire.

I never enjoy the vegetables in a carvery if I am honest.

Oh how we love our roast in this house even sitting out in the garden during hot sunner months OH just loves his Sunday Roast.
We do sometime drive over to Parkgate and have a carvery at a lovely pub overlooking the marshes followed by a yummy home made ice cream from a famous little shop .

I still do roasts, though not necessarily on Sundays. But we very rarely have them 'out', though we used to when staying with friends. He always 'had to' have his Sunday roast out, though it was considerably cheaper where they lived, with several nice country pubs to choose from.

My dds and their blokes still do and enjoy them. Might add that despite our saying absolutely not to bother feeding us, our son in law had prepared us a lovely roast chicken when we called in after a long drive from a big family do elsewhere, to visit him, dd, and 3 day old Gdd - but then he is something of a paragon!

I used to go to a Toby Carvery in Banbury , it was Good Value price wise , with a £3 increase on a Sunday.
I usually stick what I see as to the plate ,and have seen many cases of oversized portions on other people plates.
The only other carvery options I have had are at the Warner's hotels etc.
The Toby Carvery in Banbury is no longer with owners M & B doing a refurb ,and it becoming a steak house as part of its group.
Mick

Perhaps I have been unlucky but have never found a carvery where I enjoyed the food. Meat either floating in thin gravy or hacked off a large overcooked joint by some inexperienced "chef", overcooked vegetables which have been sitting around for heaven knows how long, horrible roast potatoes which were probably cooked an hour before the carvery opened, hard Yorkshire puddings. No thanks.

Now I am on my own I no longer do a full roast, usually a chicken breast (wrapped in bacon), a few roast potatoes and a pack of Sainsburys mixed green vegetables

sunseeker I think it depends how much you pay. Pay a good price for a roast dinner at a really good venue with table service and you should get a good meal.

I know the pub you mean glammanana and I agree, it's brilliant! Nip into the ice cream shop, sit overlooking the marshes and then pick up fresh shrimps to take home!

I love the food at our Toby Carvery. Not too much meat (which I don't want anyway), but you can pile up the delicious, and healthy, veg. And then there's the help-yourself-gravy gravy which you can have as much as you like of. And the applesuace.... yum! The yorkshire puddings are great too.

you may have to sort that post out a bit

MOnica I was talking about carveries - which are self serve. I agree that if you go to a pub/restaurant that does table service you can often find a really good roast

To be fair, our Toby Carvery take out the trays of veg, including the potatos, and replace them at frequent intervals so they are lovely and hot. No idea what they do with the uneaten old ones.

A roast Sunday lunch is a roast Sunday lunch, I cannot see whether it matters whether the venue you choose to eat in provides table service or self service ('Carvery' is just a posh word for self service.)

I had never heard the term 'carvery' and had to look it up.
It sounds like all of Canada is missing out on a good roast dinner out!

The only time we would have such a dinner is at an event such as a staff Christmas party or perhaps a wedding buffet.

And to have a roast dinner at a garden centre? What???
I'm imagining diners sitting with roast dinner on their laps in the greenhouse amongst the seedlings, or perhaps outside with the plastic gallon pots of annuals and shrubs!

I love a roast, and a carvery is even better, because you can choose all the unhealthy stuff exactly what you want on your plate.