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Re: What are you eating and drinking tonight?

Post by Beefheart » Mon Mar 31, 2014 8:35 pm

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Beefheart wrote:Working in Guildford this week, anyone know any good restaurants in the area?
Most of the restaurants in Guildford a quite posh and expensive. So for something cheaper there is a T.G.I Fridays and The White House (although not sure what the prices are like there) which is on the river, the is a Weatherspoons also near the station and a Nando's. So it depends what your after?
Dan. Beefeart's enquired as to good restaurants, not cheap ones. He's made it clear as to what it is that he's after. You might be happy to eat in shitholes. ;)
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Re: What are you eating and drinking tonight?

Post by Worthy4England » Mon Mar 31, 2014 9:26 pm

In that case, Drakes, in Ripley. :-)

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Re: What are you eating and drinking tonight?

Post by bobo the clown » Mon Mar 31, 2014 10:53 pm

Cotes is good. Britten's and also The Farmhouse Restaurant at Rokers (an ex Golf Course club house, now a formal restaurant.

Oh & Sombrero's if you fancy Tex-Mex.
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Re: What are you eating and drinking tonight?

Post by Beefheart » Tue Apr 01, 2014 11:44 am

bobo the clown wrote:Cotes is good. Britten's and also The Farmhouse Restaurant at Rokers (an ex Golf Course club house, now a formal restaurant.

Oh & Sombrero's if you fancy Tex-Mex.
We went to Cotes last night as my colleague likes them (I believe they are a chain).

Thanks for the recommendations, I do fancy Tex-Mex actually!

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Re: What are you eating and drinking tonight?

Post by Beefheart » Wed Apr 02, 2014 8:39 pm

Beefheart wrote:
bobo the clown wrote:Cotes is good. Britten's and also The Farmhouse Restaurant at Rokers (an ex Golf Course club house, now a formal restaurant.

Oh & Sombrero's if you fancy Tex-Mex.
We went to Cotes last night as my colleague likes them (I believe they are a chain).

Thanks for the recommendations, I do fancy Tex-Mex actually!
Just been to the Mexican, thought you were taking the piss when I first saw it! But the food was actually quite good, and even if it wasn't the cocktails were cheap so I wouldn't have given a shit. Also got an e-mail today saying the daily expenses allowance for food had increased which was good timing.

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Re: What are you eating and drinking tonight?

Post by bobo the clown » Wed Apr 02, 2014 8:58 pm

Beefheart wrote:
Beefheart wrote:
bobo the clown wrote:Cotes is good. Britten's and also The Farmhouse Restaurant at Rokers (an ex Golf Course club house, now a formal restaurant.

Oh & Sombrero's if you fancy Tex-Mex.
We went to Cotes last night as my colleague likes them (I believe they are a chain).

Thanks for the recommendations, I do fancy Tex-Mex actually!
Just been to the Mexican, thought you were taking the piss when I first saw it! But the food was actually quite good, and even if it wasn't the cocktails were cheap so I wouldn't have given a shit. Also got an e-mail today saying the daily expenses allowance for food had increased which was good timing.
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Re: What are you eating and drinking tonight?

Post by Bruce Rioja » Wed Apr 02, 2014 9:26 pm

The fourth great lie is "I know a fantastic Mexican restaurant".
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Re: What are you eating and drinking tonight?

Post by bobo the clown » Wed Apr 02, 2014 9:33 pm

Bruce Rioja wrote:The fourth great lie is "I know a fantastic Mexican restaurant".
Thank God what I said was "... if you fancy Tex-Mex ....". 8)
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Re: What are you eating and drinking tonight?

Post by William the White » Wed Apr 02, 2014 11:31 pm

Bruce Rioja wrote:The fourth great lie is "I know a fantastic Mexican restaurant".
I remember seeing a feminist stand up who said 'The two great lies are Your giro's in the post and I won't come in your mouth...

You've given the 4th.

What's the 3rd?

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Re: What are you eating and drinking tonight?

Post by Bruce Rioja » Thu Apr 03, 2014 9:11 am

William the White wrote:
Bruce Rioja wrote:The fourth great lie is "I know a fantastic Mexican restaurant".
I remember seeing a feminist stand up who said 'The two great lies are Your giro's in the post and I won't come in your mouth...

You've given the 4th.

What's the 3rd?
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Re: What are you eating and drinking tonight?

Post by BWFC_Insane » Thu Apr 03, 2014 9:18 am

Bruce Rioja wrote:The fourth great lie is "I know a fantastic Mexican restaurant".
The worst food poisoning I've ever had was from a Mexican restaurant in this country. Awful.

Why though, can't there be good Mexican restaurants? Their cuisine is very tasty when you actually visit Mexico......it just never seems to translate....

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Re: What are you eating and drinking tonight?

Post by Bruce Rioja » Thu Apr 03, 2014 9:50 am

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Bruce Rioja wrote:The fourth great lie is "I know a fantastic Mexican restaurant".
The worst food poisoning I've ever had was from a Mexican restaurant in this country. Awful.

Why though, can't there be good Mexican restaurants? Their cuisine is very tasty when you actually visit Mexico......it just never seems to translate....
I say exactly the same to anyone that'll listen (not about you getting food poisoning, you understand). The food served up as being Mexican in the UK is basically an insult to Mexican cuisine, which I found to be fantastic - not a gloop of spiced mince to be seen anywhere. I think it was Billy Connolly that said 'All Mexican food is the same thing, it just gets folded differently'. With what gets served up as being Mexican over here you can see what he meant.
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Re: What are you eating and drinking tonight?

Post by BWFC_Insane » Thu Apr 03, 2014 9:55 am

Bruce Rioja wrote:
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Bruce Rioja wrote:The fourth great lie is "I know a fantastic Mexican restaurant".
The worst food poisoning I've ever had was from a Mexican restaurant in this country. Awful.

Why though, can't there be good Mexican restaurants? Their cuisine is very tasty when you actually visit Mexico......it just never seems to translate....
I say exactly the same to anyone that'll listen (not about you getting food poisoning, you understand). The food served up as being Mexican in the UK is basically an insult to Mexican cuisine, which I found to be fantastic - not a gloop of spiced mince to be seen anywhere. I think it was Billy Connolly that said 'All Mexican food is the same thing, it just gets folded differently'. With what gets served up as being Mexican over here you can see what he meant.
Yeah agreed. But I don't get why. I mean there isn't a reason why we can't have authentic Mexican food here. Or at least a good quality variant thereof.....

We manage it with others, and seeing as I think Mexican food would be relatively popular, I don't get it.

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Re: What are you eating and drinking tonight?

Post by Bruce Rioja » Thu Apr 03, 2014 10:08 am

BWFC_Insane wrote:
Bruce Rioja wrote:
BWFC_Insane wrote:
Bruce Rioja wrote:The fourth great lie is "I know a fantastic Mexican restaurant".
The worst food poisoning I've ever had was from a Mexican restaurant in this country. Awful.

Why though, can't there be good Mexican restaurants? Their cuisine is very tasty when you actually visit Mexico......it just never seems to translate....
I say exactly the same to anyone that'll listen (not about you getting food poisoning, you understand). The food served up as being Mexican in the UK is basically an insult to Mexican cuisine, which I found to be fantastic - not a gloop of spiced mince to be seen anywhere. I think it was Billy Connolly that said 'All Mexican food is the same thing, it just gets folded differently'. With what gets served up as being Mexican over here you can see what he meant.
Yeah agreed. But I don't get why. I mean there isn't a reason why we can't have authentic Mexican food here. Or at least a good quality variant thereof.....

We manage it with others, and seeing as I think Mexican food would be relatively popular, I don't get it.
Oh I absolutely agree. Maybe the usual shite is simply what's expected/accepted. I'd like to think though, especially as more and more people are visiting Mexico, that sooner or later there'll be a shift towards the more authentic.
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Re: What are you eating and drinking tonight?

Post by Prufrock » Thu Apr 03, 2014 10:49 am

I've never been to a Mexican place that wasn't a chain. Is that not something to do with it? We'd have a pretty low opinion of Italian food if all we had to go off was the stuff on Middlebrook.
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Re: What are you eating and drinking tonight?

Post by Bruce Rioja » Thu Apr 03, 2014 10:55 am

Prufrock wrote:I've never been to a Mexican place that wasn't a chain.
And whose fault's that? ;)
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Re: What are you eating and drinking tonight?

Post by Prufrock » Thu Apr 03, 2014 11:09 am

I haven't seen any! Even in this that London its all Wahaca, Las Iguanas and Burrito places.
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Re: What are you eating and drinking tonight?

Post by Bruce Rioja » Thu Apr 03, 2014 12:28 pm

Prufrock wrote:I haven't seen any! Even in this that London its all Wahaca, Las Iguanas and Burrito places.
Oh I'm sure Google's your friend on that one.

Anyway, an important development. Have we heard of the 'Bedfordshire Clanger' before? I've only just learned of them.

A long pastie with savoury at one end and pud at the other.

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Re: What are you eating and drinking tonight?

Post by Gary the Enfield » Thu Apr 03, 2014 12:37 pm

Bruce Rioja wrote:
Prufrock wrote:I haven't seen any! Even in this that London its all Wahaca, Las Iguanas and Burrito places.
Oh I'm sure Google's your friend on that one.

Anyway, an important development. Have we heard of the 'Bedfordshire Clanger' before? I've only just learned of them.

A long pastie with savoury at one end and pud at the other.

Voila

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Probably looks the same when it comes out the other end, too. Grim. :|

What's wrong with Wahaca by the way? Been twice and loved it. :conf:

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Re: What are you eating and drinking tonight?

Post by Gary the Enfield » Thu Apr 03, 2014 12:38 pm

Prufrock wrote:I haven't seen any! Even in this that London its all Wahaca, Las Iguanas and Burrito places.

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j& ... 4634,d.ZG4" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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