restaurant menu of your dreams... discuss...

[marcoddy]

An interesting little question for you.... if you could describe the dishes that you'd love to see on the restaurant menu of your dreams.... what would they be? Forget trying to impress... forget being embaressed about saying certain dishes out loud!... forget picking dishes that you currently see on poor restaurant menus... Just genuinely say what dishes you'd LOVE to eat!!

Is it Garlic mushrooms followed by a burger and chips? Toad in the hole? Your mum's rice pudding?Yorkshire puddings? Beans on toast? a big bowl of rice crispies? Fish & Chips?

ANYTHING you like...

[boobesque]

starters-i would have malaysian seafood soup, from where i had it in malaysia, yummy!

main meal- it would have to be lamb hot pot made with lamb shanks. (i make this myself but its one of my favourites)

desert- god, what wouldnt i have! hmm, oooh asda used to do a white chocolate ice cream, it had a white choc sauce running through it and on top was like a white chocolate lid, very thick and it was yum, they dont sell it now!

[joolesbarr]

starters a large bowl full of griddled asparagus, sliced courgettes and red peppers, fresh salad leaves, thick slices of ripe advacado and crumbled feta dressed in peppery olive oil - to die for

main course - pasta with a fresh made tomatoe sauce and cooked slices spicy sausage (chorizo is good)

pudding - homemade toffee apple ice cream and strawberries
yum

[sneezer]

Starter -Grilled Goats cheese  salad with a balsamic vinegar dressing

Main - My homemade vegetable lasagne, layers of tomato sauce, roasted aubergine, lasagne and spinach and ricotta topped with lots of cheese and pesto served with bread dripping with garlic butter and homemade chips

Dessert - Apple and berry crumble and custard 

[pixie77]

Mines would be.

Starter: Prawn Cocktail

Main: Chicken Fajitas with extra Sour Cream

Pud: New York style Cheesecake

Yum

[natalie_1982]

Warm fresh crusty bread to dip in Olive Oil and Garlic Butter

Duck and spring onion in plum sauce from Bella Pasta

Warm chocolate brownie with scoop of white choc and raspberry icecream

[Xollob]

For starters: Dozens of Lebanese/Turkish meze.
Main course: Oxtail stuffed with walnut and bacon dumpling; pesto mashed potato gratin�ed with goat's cheese.
Dessert: Big fat Californian dates stuffed with carrot and cardamon halva, wrapped in filo pastry sprinked with grated marzipan and dripping with honey and rose water, then baked in the oven for about 20 mins.

[Mistopheles]

Starter: Potato skins with bacon, cheese and masses of sour cream.

Main course: A Pizza Hut pepperoni pizza thin crust with extra cheese, side salad, and garlic bread.

Sweet: Anything very chocolatey and gooey. Maybe a chocolate pie I had in America, or The Eighth Deadly Sin that one of the big chains does - chocolate mousse, choc base, choc sauce - oh wow!

And now I'm hungry...

[B00]

Garlic mushrooms for starters. Main meal would be roast beef, wiv fatty bits, roast spuds, sprouts mashed with black pepper  & butter ( I know!), a massive yorkshire pudd and no gravy, that just ruins it!

Then a sticky toffee pavlova...

After that.....a snooze!

[dmsjps]

I agree with you, pixie77 - starter: prawn cocktail.

 

Main dish would be 1 piece of KFC (the thigh), 1 rack of Chinese pork ribs, 1 slice of deep pan pizza (chicken, sweetcorn, mushroom, onion, peppers), couple of small barbeque chicken wings, a small sirlion steak (medium-rare), new potatoes tossed in butter and mint, loads of crispy salad with peppers and red cabbage, a yoghurt dip and a splash of mayonnaise on the salad.

 

After that I'd be too stuffed for a dessert, but if I could really manage to force anything down it would be profiteroles with hot choccie sauce.

[archbishop]

I look at restaurant menus for interesting and non-pretentious dishes. Anything I wouldn't normally cook at home ( which really narrows it down) that's what I go for. The basic enjoyment for me is that somebody else is preparing and cooking it.

[Sasha13]

I'm going to try that again!!! Sorry, kept posting when I pressed the space bar!

Main Course... Either roast beef with all the trimmings or a pasts dish like tagliatelle (sp?) carbonara

Desert.. Tesco used to do an ice cream called "Gold Rush" it was vanilla ice cream with little toffee type bits in it... was absolutely fantastic, but I can't find it anywhere now!!

[Sasha13]

*pasta* obviously. aarrggghhh! Not having much luck tonight!!

[marcoddy]

Wow, this is the first question I have ever asked on here and have been very impressed with the answers so far...

 

Personally, i'd love to see normal everyday things done really really well... Gary Rhodes does a great job on "New British Classics" Not a massive menu, but all fresh ingredients, and all treated with the maximum of respect.

 

If people LOVE Fish & Chips, then why not have it? Same with Bangers & Mash, Beans on Toast, Jelly & Ice-Cream, Burger & Chips, Curry, Spaghetti Bolognaise, Roast Chicken Dinner, Roast Beef dinner... the list goes on.

 

People don't want to feel intimidated in restaurants, they just want a good time with great food. Something that I genuinely beleive is lacking in restaurants today.

[MargeB]

Snails in butter, side salad of green leaf with foi gras and lobster, marie rose sauce.

Main: Medallions of venison, medium rare. Butternut squash mash, red wine gravy, griddled asparagus.

Desert: Four chocolate cake (Ed), Goats cheese and port.

YUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUM. I'm going to the fridge now to get some cheese!

[MargeB]

I went to a lovely french restaurant in Ealing a few times. It was just marvellous. The menu was ecstatic, a great range, the freshest produce. The place never got packed, and you could enjoy the sumptuous decor with a brilliant pianist tinkling in the background. Only problem was that the waiter was completely stoned, every time. He just kept coming back to your table with a different dish until Ee 'Hit' ze right one. Madness.

[funkychicken]

For starters I would have avocado with prawns and that pink sauce stuff, for the main course I would have sweet and sour chicken balls with egg fried rice, crispy seaweed and prawn crackers (all drenched in sweet and sour sauce) and to finish a big pile of profiteroles. yum!

[mfewell]

No starter

King Prawn phall, Bombay Aloo (extra hot), Vegetable rice, Garlic Naan.

3 bottles very cold Bangla Beer

No dessert

Next day off work.