What are you eating and drinking tonight?
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Re: What are you eating and drinking tonight?
Yeah Dan, I'm not paying!Bruce Rioja wrote: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.danhorwich wrote: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?Beefheart wrote:Working in Guildford this week, anyone know any good restaurants in the area?
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In that case, Drakes, in Ripley.
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Re: What are you eating and drinking tonight?
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.
Oh & Sombrero's if you fancy Tex-Mex.
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We went to Cotes last night as my colleague likes them (I believe they are a chain).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.
Thanks for the recommendations, I do fancy Tex-Mex actually!
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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.Beefheart wrote:We went to Cotes last night as my colleague likes them (I believe they are a chain).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.
Thanks for the recommendations, I do fancy Tex-Mex actually!
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You're welcome !Beefheart wrote: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.Beefheart wrote:We went to Cotes last night as my colleague likes them (I believe they are a chain).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.
Thanks for the recommendations, I do fancy Tex-Mex actually!
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The fourth great lie is "I know a fantastic Mexican restaurant".
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Thank God what I said was "... if you fancy Tex-Mex ....".Bruce Rioja wrote:The fourth great lie is "I know a fantastic Mexican restaurant".
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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...Bruce Rioja wrote:The fourth great lie is "I know a fantastic Mexican restaurant".
You've given the 4th.
What's the 3rd?
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I love youWilliam the White wrote: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...Bruce Rioja wrote:The fourth great lie is "I know a fantastic Mexican restaurant".
You've given the 4th.
What's the 3rd?
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The worst food poisoning I've ever had was from a Mexican restaurant in this country. Awful.Bruce Rioja wrote:The fourth great lie is "I know a fantastic Mexican restaurant".
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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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.BWFC_Insane wrote:The worst food poisoning I've ever had was from a Mexican restaurant in this country. Awful.Bruce Rioja wrote:The fourth great lie is "I know a fantastic Mexican restaurant".
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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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.....Bruce Rioja wrote: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.BWFC_Insane wrote:The worst food poisoning I've ever had was from a Mexican restaurant in this country. Awful.Bruce Rioja wrote:The fourth great lie is "I know a fantastic Mexican restaurant".
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....
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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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.BWFC_Insane wrote: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.....Bruce Rioja wrote: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.BWFC_Insane wrote:The worst food poisoning I've ever had was from a Mexican restaurant in this country. Awful.Bruce Rioja wrote:The fourth great lie is "I know a fantastic Mexican restaurant".
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....
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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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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And whose fault's that?Prufrock wrote:I've never been to a Mexican place that wasn't a chain.
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I haven't seen any! Even in this that London its all Wahaca, Las Iguanas and Burrito places.
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Oh I'm sure Google's your friend on that one.Prufrock wrote:I haven't seen any! Even in this that London its all Wahaca, Las Iguanas and Burrito places.
Anyway, an important development. Have we heard of the 'Bedfordshire Clanger' before? I've only just learned of them.
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Bruce Rioja wrote:Oh I'm sure Google's your friend on that one.Prufrock wrote:I haven't seen any! Even in this that London its all Wahaca, Las Iguanas and Burrito places.
Anyway, an important development. Have we heard of the 'Bedfordshire Clanger' before? I've only just learned of them.
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Probably looks the same when it comes out the other end, too. Grim.
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Prufrock wrote:I haven't seen any! Even in this that London its all Wahaca, Las Iguanas and Burrito places.
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