Carvery

[hc4361]

I used to love going out to a carvery restaurant years ago but not any more.

I have been to three different ones lately and all of them serve their beef extremely well done, no choice for those of us who enjoy it rare or medium.

Can anyone recommend a carvery restaurant to suit my tastes?

[friedgreentomato]

Carveries tend to be visited by the older age group and hence have more staid tastes which is why the beef is well done.

[hc4361]

My APs eat their beef rare and their lamb pink and have always done so. Probably where I get my tastes from.

[Old_Geezer]

When I go to a restaurant with my woman and she asks for the meat to be well done because she doesn't like the "blood" seeping out, guess who ends up being given one cooked the same way ! Not that I'm overly fussed about the meat, as long as it isn't raw or burnt. What gets me is the warm salad masquerading as cooked vegetables one tends to get given as default these days. If it still snaps when bent, or flies across/off the plate when you try to cut it, it isn't cooked !

[hellywelly4]

'My woman' ??????

[Old_Geezer]

She's mine. Hands off !

[diddlydo]

I don't think good carveries exist - meat always overcooked, veg either underdone or boiled to death and always that dreadful "hedgehog broccoli". I wouldn't go to one again unless I was being dragged kicking and screaming.

[Baldric]

How far are you willing to travel?

[hc4361]

Well I do get around :) You offering to cook?

[Baldric]

Ha ha!
No, I was just thinking of the John O;Groats, Landsend scenario!

[hc4361]

I'm going to Penzance in May, so that will be useful to know

[gollob]

Carveries are the cheapest way of selling meals but they are never satisfactory because by the time you have sat down they are never hot.The usual veg of cauliflower and carrots, very seldom peas as they discolour. Never Lamb or Chicken and roast potatoes kept heated in a bain marie with hot water. Ugh.