Eating out, I don't enjoy it.

I love eating out. I think the economy is hitting my children’s purses. It’s a good while since anyone took me out. Mind you, they do eat out (my middle son especially) is constantly sending photos of them, at this restaurant or that. And my friends are rather reluctant to spend on restaurants. So I am left high and dry😂- never mind, as long as they are all happy.

I love eating out. Anything that saves me cooking and washing up is fine by me. Must say £9 for soup was a bit on the experience side. Was it a posh place?

An hotel popular for weddings.

God, I'd just be grateful to be going out for a meal in the first place!

Eating out is a treat for me. The restaurant we usually go to doesn't play music so you can hear people speak.

A new cafe opened in our village recently, overlooking the sea . There is no other cafe. They offer decent food at reasonable prices. Sadly they have not considered the noise levels which are very high but easily reduced by fitting baffles in the open ceiling. You can't really have a conversation without shouting at each other. I will mention it....if I go back... I do enjoy an occasional meal out with friends and/or family, though, as long as the food is good....

In my opinion, and I do know some will disagree, muzak in restaurants and shops is counterproductive. It drives away customers.

If owners of these businesses can't bear silence perhaps some very low key low volume classical music might be tolerable but not anything so loud and intrusive that it competes with normal conversation

Love eating out, but can't stand loud music when eating and chatting with family and friends. I would not go to a venue where this is the case.

I have found recently that young people also have music playing when eating at their house, which I really don't like.

Eating out is quite expensive now, I eat out a lot and the menus are typically £30 to £35 for two or three courses and they add 10% service charge to the bill. I don't mind the 10% added but I think they should exclude the wine before calculating the 10%. Bottles of wine are usual double the retail price.

I love eating out and we have a real range of cheap to expensive cafes /restaurants/ hotels
I had a fabulous vegetarian roast the other day including a Yorky and five different veg followed by strawberry cheesecake and a coffee for £12 all cooked on the premises by the owners wife

Love eating out, with others or alone, and I don’t mind background music providing it’s not so loud that I can’t eavesdrop on interesting conversations at other tables.

yesterday we went to a wonderful fish restaurant overlooking the sea in Hastings old fishing port. It was freshly caught cod and enormous portions. £12.50 and wonderful service. We're not over that way very often so it was a real treat..

If you do not like a restaurant, don't go there. We have restaurants where we enjoy eating out and places we avoid. Muzak is a no-no for me. Also loud echoey premises.

'Ask' like to use old churches, assembly rooms etc, and even conversation sets up such echos, you cannot hear yourself think - so we simply do not go there.

Ditto, the menu. If you do not like it, do not go there. We had a favourite Indian restaurant that did special lunches, 2 small plates with a selection of different dishes in spoonful quantities. ideal for us. Now they have gone back to the standard menu at lunchtime and we have stopped going there.

If you do not like eating out, stay in, perhaps buy something extravagent that you do like from your supermarket. During lockdown, we had quite a number of eating in meals out. We would lay the table, add flowers and the best china and glass and then order a take away from a favourite restaurant or buy those fancy dinners that M&S and Waitrose do

Oh and no music

I cook from scratch every day Saturday is the only day I don't.
I do like to go out for a pub meal or a nice restaurant. I am not a fussy eater really but I do have high standards.
I get deflated sometimes when food dished out is such poor quality and yes very expensive.

We very rarely eat out as we love our home. North Norfolk is very peaceful and has some great, quiet, restaurants and pubs - good food with no loud music.

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yesterday we went to a wonderful fish restaurant overlooking the sea in Hastings old fishing port. It was freshly caught cod and enormous portions. £12.50 and wonderful service. We're not over that way very often so it was a real treat..

and no music..

We like eating out and are very fortunate that 5 really good restaurants are all within walking distant from our home; Indian, Thai, Greek, Italian and Chinese.

Best place I know for a delicious lunch/dinner is my own home, but then I love cooking😀

Everywhere you go now, shops, restaurants, even the doctors there’s a soundtrack. I don’t think younger ones even notice it.

We had lunch today in a fantastic little restaurant. The food was really unusual and obviously had taken a lot of preparation. Our only complaint was that it was too cheap! Three courses for £17. They also gave us a basket of beautiful hot rolls and special herby butter included. Most places charge extra for that. So our worry is that they'll not make enough income to keep the place going.

I love eating out and do so most weeks. It’s important to do your homework in advance to make sure that is a place to your taste, food, ambience and price point.

We don't like to pay and eat away from home. Thus we don't, unless forced by someone else. Not enjoyable.

Our daughters and their families seem much more amenable to eating away from home, generational I think.

If we must eat out, there is a lovely place in Cambridgeshire only 20 miles away and another only 25 miles from home in Norfolk.

Just home from eating out, local Thai restaurant, fabulous tasting food, no Muzak just a buzzy restaurant.

Gernanshepherdsmum* our favourite restaurant ^with rooms is in your part of the world.