What would you order?

Yes dustyangel in restaurants, not sure if you can buy to cook at home.

Well I do love to eat out but I wo9uldnt book into a restaurant with a Chefs Table' horribly expensive and too many courses. I prefer to choose from a menu for myself. I love a nice Indian or Italian meal where I usually have the seafood risotto or pasta. Yesterday we went out for Suday lunch at a very nice pub and I had the beef as they cook it so well there. DH nearly always orders the fish or a vegetarian meal. Sometimes I have a starter sometimes a pudding never both- too much. I usually have a glass of wine or a spritzer. Our favourite restaurant at the moment is Cote at Chester.

I also order things that I wouldn't normally cook at home.

Out to lunch on Friday there was a set menu and I chose duck croquettes, and cod goujons with chunky chips. All very tasty, along with a glass of wine.

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Scallops DH is allergic so I only get them when we go out!

I am reading this while enjoying a delicious bowl of soup in our local community café.
It was called curried sweet potato but is just mildly spicy. Thick but whizzed and with the addition of cashew nuts and pimento.
Served with sourdough bread and butter.
I volunteer here this afternoon so I am fed for free.
Out at restaurants, I usually have little option as I am a vegetarian.
At last most places have something other than quiche.

Rump steak with peppercorn sauce, chips and vegs

Pardon my ignorance, but what is a lamb Henry?

Can you still get whitebait in England JaxJacky? They are banned in Portugal although you used to be able to get the frozen ones, not sure if you still can.

I love the tasting menu. Lots of little plates with a variety of dishes.
Going to a restaurant is a great social occasion for us, so I don’t mind the wait between the courses.

Lamb in any form available, but particularly a lamb Henry. I had it last in a lovely pub in Northumberland and it was beyond delicious. Trouble is GS wanted to try and bit (he was having duck) and then son in law decided he’d like to try a bit too, (but I got to try his tournedos Rossini)! I was rather glad DD didn’t eat meat or there might not have been much left for me!

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

That was one of the problems with the 12 or possibly more courses we had to sit through nanna8.
Tiny portions of nice food, but then a long wait for the next round!
They didnt call it nouveau cuisine, but that's what it amounted to.

I really disliked the very tiny nouveau cuisine they used to serve up. Thankfully most others must have agreed because mostly we get pretty large servings at restaurants these days, too large sometimes .

I don’t get a lot of choice as I’m coeliac but if there is duck on the menu I would always choose that. I’m always just pleased if I can find something that isn’t just a salad.

A fish pie as I rarely make it at home. I rarely order fish on it's own as it's usually overcooked for me.

Anything that's imaginative containing ingredients that I've never heard of. However, never spicy.

Chips with anything! Don’t cook em at home.

Fish and fish as MrJ doesn’t eat it, so rarely cooked at home, no pud as I don’t have a sweet tooth.
I love whitebait too lixy.

Starter and dessert usually for me main courses are too much. I think in posh restaurants they talk a load of spiel to dress up very basic food to justify the prices. I avoid restaurants like that because I can cook and I am not impressed by image.

Yes same here, usually fish but something I wouldn't normally have at home, even Fish & Chips as I only have that done in the oven/airfryer at home and deep fried definitely taste different? .

A starter and a pud!
I find main courses are too big for me so I tend to skip them out.
I try to find something new to try on the menu, usually veggie though I don't like aubergine much.

Whitebait is a favourite that I wouldn't cook at home.
Pud would be either coffee or chocolate-based - OH doesn't like either of those so again, wouldn't cook at home.

Mussels in cream wine and garlic..plus crusty bread or chips. Unfortunately our local Loch Finn closed.

We don't go out very often and I'm a keen home cook, I would also usually tend to opt for something that I wouldn't normally cook at home.

A pudding!

If I am stuck about which dish to order in the mains, I will be swayed by the addition of decent veg...not peas!

I agree with you Nanna8.. if I go to a British restaurant.. then I will usually always order something I find more difficult to cook at home.. or something I can't afford to buy ...