What would you order?

As a very keen cook, I do like to order what I wouldn't cook at home.

If abroad I like to try local specialities.

We have just returned from Oslo, for our final evenings meal I had sea trout fillet in a white sauce with kale and potatoes, I know it doesn’t sound exciting but it was just so utterly delicious.
The trout was not farmed and was so fresh and delicate.

My husband and son both had real food envy.

I remember in the early seventies we sat outside a restaurant in Mons in Belgium where they had tanks of lobsters and various fish including trout. The water looked awful and I felt very sorry for the fish. I can’t even kill the trout I catch never mind pick one out of a tank for my lunch.

Watching that would definitely put me off too, Mollygo.
My husband used to go fishing a lot and occasionally brought home a lobster, but then they became so expensive that he sold them to local hotels/restaurants instead!

henetha,
Lobster yes. I haven’t eaten that since I saw two foreign students go up to the aquarium and choose their lobster, in the restaurant where we were eating.
Yes I know that could be a bit silly, since all meat eating means killing the animal, but I couldn’t choose my meal.

Lobster. Because I used to love it and haven't eaten it for many years. And then Eton Mess.... so gorgeous.

Something I wouldn’t cook at home or something I’d like to try. There’s a restaurant at a garden centre near us which always has lovely choices and they’re all beautifully presented. I usually have just a main meal; fish or meat. The desserts there are amazing, but if I want one of those then I either just have that, or have a starter and dessert. In Portugal, sardines are my favourite, but they never taste the same at home.

Riverwalk, a big thank you for that KX info. I'm in that area regularly (strictly railway) and had no idea. I seem to remember a waterside (canal?) area in a side street where I used to go for coffee. I will seek out with gusto on my next visit. Yippeel

I haven't ate out for as long as I can recall, but my ideas of a good meal out are

1. Like YorkLady lots of taster dishes to pick and try out. Mediterranean food.

2. McDonalds or similar outlet with the grandkids where everyone just having a laugh and good time and spills don't matter

Over the weekend, I was, by chance, out for lunch twice. On Saturday I relished a meal of sea bass, wilted spinach with little new potatoes in garlic butter and roasted tomatoes, beautifully cooked and presented! I generally opt for fish.

On Sunday, it was a carvery which was fine. The meat was perfectly cooked and served and there was a wide choice of vegetables. However, I’m not one of the “pile it high” brigade! A couple of our party had plates groaning with obscene amounts of food which, inevitably, they failed to finish.

I used to love a rare steak but my poor old teeth won’t cope these days!

Scampi, chips, peas, tartare sauce I’m so predictable ?

Oh Lord I’ve posted on the wrong thread! Sorry guys! Back to your dinner!

Within weeks of joining OVO, they were sending me emails saying they needed to increase my DDebit because “at the end of your contract you will be in debit by X amount so you need to pay that money now”. I was then over three hundred pounds in credit so I told them to take a hike or I would move my account. I am now over seven hundred pounds in credit. I have an app on my phone which is supposed to tell me what my usage is, but all the daily amounts are the same for each day of the month, which means they are averaging them out, and they can’t explain why. I am still waiting for them to replace my in house monitor which packed up at the end of July! I wish I had stayed with Scottish Power.

vampirequeen

If there's a carvery, then that's for me. If not I'll usually order steak or gammon.

I don’t eat meat, but I love a carvery.
In fact I’m craving one now (at 5.45am )
Lots of roasties, Yorkshire’s, cauliflower cheese, cabbage, lashings of gravy…?

Sea-bass is a favourite, actually any fish really except salmon because I already eat that most weeks at home. Steak. Steak pie if it’s some where I know it’s good. Both of those because I never have them at home. My fall back choice is a burger, but rarely a beef one. Depending who I’m with, I might share a starter and a pud as well as having my main course. Sometimes have two or three starters together instead of a main course. Really all depends on where I’m eating.

Mussels in a creamy wine and garlic sauce.Preferably in France but that is a dream at the moment.
Fingers crossed we manage to get to France next year.
Barbarax

We don't go out very often, so I usually choose something I wouldn't normally cook, but yet I'm familiar with.

I was just out last week to celebrate a friend's birthday, and had a small steak with a peppercorn and mushroom sauce. It was very good. Creme brulee for dessert.

Fish and chips is always good! I don't like deep-frying at home since the smell of the oil tends to linger.

I tend to order either something I've never cooked at home to see how it 'should' be cooked, or something I just really love, even if I often cook it. I agree about either a starter and main, or main and pudding, can't manage 3 courses.

My husband is vegetarian, so I tend to order meat, as I rarely cook it at home. I particularly like belly pork, so if that's on the menu I read no further, as a rule.

If there is a veggie dish that I haven't tried (unusual) I might go for that, so I can recreate it at home if I like it.

I enjoy my own cooking, so will order something I wouldn’t cook at home, like fish & chips, as it’s difficult to ruin as Deedaa says. More often than not I’d choose a fish dish.

Fish and chips or a burger,can`t really go wrong with that,i hate it when i order something like a bolognese as the portions are far too small and i end up hungry in no time at all.
I do like a full English too.

I usually go for fish and chips because it's quite hard to ruin and you never get the same results cooking it at home.

Thank you JJ.
I don’t eat meat at all, just because of digestive problems, usually chose a fish that’s more difficult to cook at home or a good vegetarian option.

I am a starter and main course person. I usually look for something on the menu that I havn't eaten before, either the food item or the way it is served.

However, I apply strong ethical standards to the meat I eat, so usually go for one of the the meat-free options, and sometimes fish.

I had a starter in a hotel we stayed in last year. It was like pressed meat with spices and it was lovely. Can't remember what it was called as I'd love to order it again on another occasion.

Grannyrebel17 it’s a thick bone in steak cut off the top end of end of the shank, then cooked slowly so that it’s almost falling off the bone. Quite a large piece of meat unless someone decides they want you to share it!!