Nandos - what would you like sir?

[Tickle]

C70R said:

Tickle said:

Directions to a non-fast food place please.

Nando's really brings out the worst of try-hard internet snobbery.

Yay, I'm a try-hard internet snob

[Cold]

My local Nandos serves take away which can be ordered online using Paypal and is ready within twenty minutes. Ideal for a few clicks of the phone while sitting on the train.

[C70R]

Tickle said:

C70R said:

Tickle said:

Directions to a non-fast food place please.

Nando's really brings out the worst of try-hard internet snobbery.

Yay, I'm a try-hard internet snob

You're definitely trying hard to make some kind of point.

I can't imagine how empty my life would need to be to think - "Hmm, there's a thread about what Nando's lovers tend to order. I'll go in there and tell them how crap I think Nando's is, because it's like totally my opinion and it's an open forum. I bet they will love that."

[rambo19]

Went once, not impressed, never been again.

[bullencraig]

medium hot chicken thighs - peri peri chips and garlic bread sides
bottomless drink
halumi
another portion of medium hot chicken thighs on their own

[soad]

Local one is closed for refurbishment at present.

stuartmmcfc said:

I've never been

I've been once. You don't know what you're missing!

[JKRolling]

JB! said:

Double Breast Pitta Medium, with cheese
Spicy rice or Peri chips
Macho Peas
Perinase
Drink

Exactly what i Order although I've only been about 5 times

[anonymous-user]

Clearly Nando's are doing something right, the self righteous PH food critics must be choking on their Beluga Caviar.

It's tasty, simple and relatively cheap food, it's even reasonably healthy. What's not to like?

[Trabi601]

Insert Coin said:

It's tasty, simple and relatively cheap food, it's even reasonably healthy. What's not to like?

The other customers.

[hyphen]

Trabi601 said:

Insert Coin said:

It's tasty, simple and relatively cheap food, it's even reasonably healthy. What's not to like?

The other customers.

The customers in the High Street Kensington Branch must be different from your part of town then

[anonymous-user]

Trabi601 said:

The other customers.

Well you carry on dining at The Ivy and you'll avoid the great unwashed, better still,ask,your butler to collect the meals for you and dine in luxury at your palace.

[ambuletz]

hyphen said:

Trabi601 said:

Insert Coin said:

It's tasty, simple and relatively cheap food, it's even reasonably healthy. What's not to like?

The other customers.

The customers in the High Street Kensington Branch must be different from your part of town then

I've grown up in east london and eaten in nandos around beckton, barking, stratford, romford, ilford, lakeside and more. I couldn't care less about other people, they don't sit on my table and eat next to me, or get in my way. the place never smells odd and the toilets are clean.

I've been to loads of whetherspoons and couldn't care less about the other people either. I'm there with friends, not to soak up atmosphere of people i am never going to interact with.

[iphonedyou]

We went once. Felt it was really overpriced for what we got - haven't been back.

It wasn't too bad though (and the other customers were fine!)

[C70R]

Trabi601 said:

Insert Coin said:

It's tasty, simple and relatively cheap food, it's even reasonably healthy. What's not to like?

The other customers.

I had a very enjoyable Nando's yesterday evening. It cost a tenner, it tasted like I'd paid a tenner for it, I was full afterwards, and I left within half an hour of ordering.

I was in South London, and some of the clientele were from the lower classes - shock horror. Some even spoke at a level above a whisper. Some even used colloquial and colourful language.
Did it affect my enjoyment? Absolutely not, because I'm not a sociopath
Did it make me not want to go back? Of course not, because I went there with realistic expectations
Did it make me trot out ridiculous stereotypes and prejudices on the internet to make a moot point? No way, because I'm not trying to project my views on everyone

I do wonder what world some of you people live in at times.

[C70R]

Insert Coin said:

Trabi601 said:

The other customers.

Well you carry on dining at The Ivy and you'll avoid the great unwashed, better still,ask,your butler to collect the meals for you and dine in luxury at your palace.

For reference, The Ivy should never be held up as a standard-bearer. The food is mediocre, the menu is c.50% overpriced, and the clientele annoy me in a way that nobody in Nando's could ever.

The place has been trading on its name for at least 5 years, and attracts the sort of tw*t who goes out to dinner 'to be seen'. Pretentious, new-money, badly dressed. I would actually rather eat at Nando's.

[Trabi601]

C70R said:

I had a very enjoyable Nando's yesterday evening. It cost a tenner, it tasted like I'd paid a tenner for it, I was full afterwards, and I left within half an hour of ordering.

I was in South London, and some of the clientele were from the lower classes - shock horror. Some even spoke at a level above a whisper. Some even used colloquial and colourful language.
Did it affect my enjoyment? Absolutely not, because I'm not a sociopath
Did it make me not want to go back? Of course not, because I went there with realistic expectations
Did it make me trot out ridiculous stereotypes and prejudices on the internet to make a moot point? No way, because I'm not trying to project my views on everyone

I do wonder what world some of you people live in at times.

I generally go to places where I won't get irritated by other customers.

If a place attracts those in tracksuits and children with silly names, I know I'll spend the entire meal getting increasingly agitated. So I don't go to Nando's, as that appears to be their usual clientele. For the same reasons, I don't got to TGI Fridays, Hungry Horse, Frankie & Benny's, or any number of other places where tracksuits or Crosshatch / Lonsdale etc., branded clothing is in abundance.

[sidekickdmr]

Trabi601 said:

C70R said:

I had a very enjoyable Nando's yesterday evening. It cost a tenner, it tasted like I'd paid a tenner for it, I was full afterwards, and I left within half an hour of ordering.

I was in South London, and some of the clientele were from the lower classes - shock horror. Some even spoke at a level above a whisper. Some even used colloquial and colourful language.
Did it affect my enjoyment? Absolutely not, because I'm not a sociopath
Did it make me not want to go back? Of course not, because I went there with realistic expectations
Did it make me trot out ridiculous stereotypes and prejudices on the internet to make a moot point? No way, because I'm not trying to project my views on everyone

I do wonder what world some of you people live in at times.

I generally go to places where I won't get irritated by other customers.

If a place attracts those in tracksuits and children with silly names, I know I'll spend the entire meal getting increasingly agitated. So I don't go to Nando's, as that appears to be their usual clientele. For the same reasons, I don't got to TGI Fridays, Hungry Horse, Frankie & Benny's, or any number of other places where tracksuits or Crosshatch / Lonsdale etc., branded clothing is in abundance.

Apologies if I’m getting you confused with someone else, but aren’t you the guy that laughs at every set of shoes in the show us your shoes thread and said you live in trainers for every occasion?

If so, I think you belong in nandos, the people you just described was probably just you in a mirror.

[Trabi601]

sidekickdmr said:

Apologies if I’m getting you confused with someone else, but aren’t you the guy that laughs at every set of shoes in the show us your shoes thread and said you live in trainers for every occasion?

If so, I think you belong in nandos, the people you just described was probably just you in a mirror.

Oh, I wear retro trainers almost all the time. Chucks, Adidas HB Spezial, or similar. I'll wear them in the office, too. I only wear shoes if convention or dress code says I have to. That's a big leap from going out for a meal in sweat pants and a hoody, though!

We no longer live in the 1950s, even though some people want to go back there... very few places enforce shoes if you're wearing sober trainers. Often, if somewhere has a dress code stipulating shoes and trousers, it means it's a meat market / fight club at the weekends.

[sidekickdmr]

Trabi601 said:

I wear retro trainers
.....
We no longer live in the 1950s, even though some people want to go back there.

[hyphen]