Real Homemade Pub Grub

El Veterano

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After suffering some pretty average, to say the least, pub meals over the last few years, I just wondered if anyone can recommend a pub or a restaurant that serves up real, and I do mean REALLY HOMEMADE food. I am not particularly talking about gourmet food here, or particularly expensive (been there and done all that), but I would like to hear of places that make their own grub, on their own premises instead of something out of a packet stored in the chiller or freezer.
Over the last ten years or so British pub food changed dramatically, mostly for the better. But more recently things seem to have taken a dive and there appear to be more a more pubs offering virtually the same menu as the pub down the road. If I see the seemingly at first quite exotic 'Thai Fishcakes' on the menu one more time I will cancel my CAMRA membership that's for sure. And with the term 'Homemade' being virtually worthless these days maybe we could come up with an alternative for the places that really do produce homemade food.
So lets hear your favorites, for any part of the country, I don't mind traveling for a proper steak and ale pie ;)
 
On our way back from France this year we headed up the west side from portsmouth for a few wild camps en route back home.we stopped of at Blackpool for diesel then headed to a hotel,pub and restuarant.we had a meal which was home made,the grow their own vega,make their own bread!and it was fab,great portions and keenly priced,service was first class,whilst speaking to the management to say how enjoyable the meal was and enquired as to produce etc,I wondered onto possibly useing the car park to stop over on any of out trips,he said he would/should rather try to sell a room to us but if we were having a drink and meal he didn't see a problem in this,nice size car park and off the road should get a nice sleep and fab views,if you google and look it very very nice .hope this is of interest and use to anyone
It was the assistant manager who told us about the produce,they also source local produce,
The shard
Hotel pub and restaurant.
Poulon-Le-fyde
Hamblton
Lancashire
 
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Probably a little too far out of your way but 'The Falls Of Dochart Inn' at Killin in Scotland does some very nice pub grub, is dog friendly and has a large brazier type fire to help keep you warm in the depths of winter.
 
Found one last week not far from here to fit the title. Food just like my Ex used to make.
Dining room full of smoke and alarm going off. Veg cooked till soggy, Meat so overdone was like leather and gravy and custard were more lumps than nutty slack.:lol-049::lol-053::lol-049:
 
great

Hole it wall Blackburn

Guinness or real ale nuts and crisps its a pub :d:king:
 
McDonalds serves beef? I didn't know that. I thought it was chewing gum scraped off the pavements & mixed with gravy browning - sure looks it, tastes like it & has the consistency of it. As for those buns, what the hell are they made from - sea sponge? Just don't get me started on that chicken McNoggin crap.

This is the sort of thing that gets my hackles raised. BBC News - Cafes 'over-egging' menu claims
 
good food

hi i eat regular at the barge in grimsby town centre lovely food great value and friendly service.homemade food a real treat and not expensive:boat:
 
Red Lodge cafe is still there David. I use it quite a lot on the way to The Ram at Brandon which quite a few of us on here will know. Good breakfast, a proper transport cafe, sadly now they are getting few and far between.
 
Sorry but surely Wetherspoons food is exactly the kind of thing the OP is talking about ! Unless your home is Brakes bros factory this is not homemade food . By the way I don't care if MacD own every cow in the UK their burgers are crap
 
I agree with you David, and I also agree that you would have much more chance of finding the elusive homemade cooking to be really homemade in France, which is why we go there a lot. It is also one of the reasons why my partner spent 17 years of her life living in France, and one of the reasons we were in your neck of the woods ie Brittany only a few weeks ago. However it should also be remembered that the fastest growing restaurant business in France is not Maoz Paris............ but McDo, yes McDonalds. Things have been changing rapidly in France as well it seems.

Thanks for everyone's posts, they have been really useful so far, and I hope there will be more to come.:tongue:
 
Sorry if you know anything about food you know Witherspoon's is the usual bland microwaved rubbish . I think when people refer to homemade they mean somebody actually makes the food on the premises . Doesn't guarantee it will be great but it does mean the general standard of food can be raised
 
Hello El Veterano,,

If you ever come up to around the Chester area, Brunning and Price pubs all do good cooked on the premises food.

I have just googled them for the url, and see that they have expanded. But all the ones I've visited, some many times all do good food and sell a variety of cask beer. The Pubs - Brunning & Price Limited,
However as a very broad generalisation, free houses, in my experience, tend to be better than pubcos etc, there will, obviously, be exceptions so it is a bit of pot luck.

Alec
 
'Frozen vegetables are usually as good as fresh vegetables, too'

From that sentence alone you , quite obviously , know nothing about food . Having said that you certainly know how to talk a load of mince
 
I have wined and dined in various high end restaurants in the UK and around the world usually paid for on my employers American Express card and most had salt and pepper on the table.
To be honest I use that much salt and pepper I have yet to have a meal where I didn't add more once I had tasted it.
I have to say some of the meals I had costing a kings ransom were not always the best and fish and chips eaten out of the paper at Whitby take some beating lol !
 
I can assure I have dined in high end eating establishments and won't comment on your "poor taste" statement.
I am a smoker and you are correct in saying its automatic, with me I would say habit. I have found this out to my detriment on many occasions.
Surprisingly I am the only one in my immediate family that does it. My late wife a smoker never added salt and neither do my youngest son and daughter.
By the way I still think fish and chips are better up north lol !
 
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