I want my dinner on a plate.

I agree! Wholeheartedly. Sausage and mash in a wine glass? How silly. I now ask for a plate if I notice other diners eating off ornaments or if it's too late, send the meal back and ask for them to re-serve it on a plate or, when recently my drink was served in a jam jar with a handle, a proper glass. I'm revolting! (and embarrassing my DH again!)

I don't mind chips in a wire basket or slates and wood but would draw the line at sausage & mash in a wine glass

Name and shame Daddima!

No, it isn't !
I'm with you on this. We took GS to pizza hut at the weekend (bad nannie) the youngest wanted nuggets and chips from the children's menu the chips were served in a miniture metal bucket

Wow haven't seen any of this We re still on plates around here perhaps we re not so sophisticated

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On Come Dine With Me recently I saw one contestant pouring soup from a teapot into little teacups.

I have the occasional snack in my local Waitrose and nearly all food is served in a deep soup plate which I hate. I much prefer food served a normal dinner plate but no joy, they will not change it.

It's nothing new though. Who remembers 'Chicken in a Basket' from the 60s or 70s?

I'm wondering how slate and wooden platters are cleaned. Do they go in the dishwasher? I wouldn't think they'd last long with that treatment.

...and scampi in a basket, very sophisticated!
I would draw the line at fish and chips in a flat cap.

Riverwalk, it's a very good tapas place called Rioja in Glasgow.

I had a G&T served in a half pint glass with handle! It just didn't taste the same! ?

Whippet and chips in a flat cap, maybe, roses! (Apologies to any whippet owners!!). I don't mind my chips being served in little wire frying baskets - it's quite fun - but I do object to food on slabs of slate, or deep soup plates, which are okay for pasta but totally alien for anything else.

I think they are awful, and not easy for the waiters either, especially the wooden boards and slates.
I also wonder how they clean them properly.
SO and I were going for lunch one day when we saw the serving 'plates', floor tiles¨ !!!!!!!! we went elsewhere.

felice I always wonder if slate or wooden platters are clean. As for floor tiles I too would eat elsewhere.
I also hate my "small glass of wine" being served in massive wine glasses that cover half my face. ?

I remember Chicken in a Basket, Anya, and loved it.

Roses, you made me laugh out loud? Doesn't often happen on here
Greyduster nicked the whippet quip from me☹️

Roses, I mean on here in general, not you in particular.

Oh dear! If you want your dinner on a plate why don't you just stay at home and make it yourself <sigh>

I'm not too fussed as long as the food is good.

Jane I'm sure you've had clam chowder in a sourdough bread bowl

Yum, yum, yummity yum .... eat the luscious chunky soup, then eat the bowl!

bread bowl

Basket meals were a big thing in the 1970s - scampi/chicken and chips in the basket

Also I think that some restaurants are using international traditions - especially old Scandi traditions - I remember DH's Swedish great aunt always used to serve breakfast toast/bread on little wooden boards with wooden butter knives

However I think that sausage and mash in a wine glass sounds very odd - but there again I think that sausage and mash as a starter sounds really odd

I remember going to a 'medieval' (spelling) banquet once and having some sort of meat stew served in a bread bowl like that, though not as deep. The stew was good but I somehow couldn't bring myself to eat the bowl!

Yes indeed river and a basket made of noodles with stir fried vegetables and prawns inside

It's those ridiculous slabs of slate that annoy me Daddima the gravy, sauce or jus (or whatever they call the stuff these days) just runs off. I hate eating off pieces of wood too. Maybe some restaurants think it's fancy but maybe it's just to distract you from the crap food they are serving.

I don't mind home made chips in little baskets though. In fact in don't mind home made chips anyway they are served.