Gastro pub?

[Huntsman]

If you went to a place that calls itself a gastro pub, what would you expect?

I was in one such place last night, awards, excellent reviews, but snotty unwelcoming service and catering supplier frozen chips.

[Boozy]

Food served on anything but a plate and stacked chips.

[Shaoxter]

90% of "gastro" pubs are just normal pubs with better decor and higher prices.

[Huntsman]

Boozy said:

Food served on anything but a plate and stacked chips.

I like that.

[Mark Benson]

Boozy said:

Food served on anything but a plate and stacked chips.

Or (as seems to have become the fashion round here) chips in a small metal bucket. Why?

[prand]

Mark Benson said:

Or (as seems to have become the fashion round here) chips in a small metal bucket. Why?

Serverd on a wooden chopping board, piece of slate or out of a bucket? I know exactly what you mean!

I suppose it stops it looking like home or pub food. It enables a place to be able to charge 17.50 for fish & chips perhaps?

I don't mind gastro pubs too much if they provide a good and value for money experience, and allow some element of just sitting in a corner of the bar having a drink rather than bookings only, eating only I have come across.

Pre-cooked frozen chips are an absolute abomination I agree too.

[santona1937]

A converted pub that is geared towards food and not drink ( dates back to the time when pub tenants were paying a percentage of their drinks turnover, but not their food to their landlords, but they cottoned on).
A place that tries to be both a local and a fine(er) dining place and usually succeeds at neither.

[Mark Benson]

prand said:

I don't mind gastro pubs too much if they provide a good and value for money experience, and allow some element of just sitting in a corner of the bar having a drink rather than bookings only, eating only I have come across.

When done well, they're a valuable addition to a village, as long as they remember they're still a pub and welcome locals for a pint as well as diners for a 3 course meal and serve a range of food accordingly, they have a place.

The only downside is that whenever I go to my local for a couple of beers, I almost always end up having a plate of something off the specials board at the bar (last week it was tandoori quail).

[Huntsman]

Mark Benson said:

When done well, they're a valuable addition to a village, as long as they remember they're still a pub and welcome locals for a pint as well as diners for a 3 course meal and serve a range of food accordingly, they have a place.

The only downside is that whenever I go to my local for a couple of beers, I almost always end up having a plate of something off the specials board at the bar (last week it was tandoori quail).

We've got five pubs in the village (result!), ironically, the worst food is in the one with the most pretentious menu and metal buckets of french fires...(part of a chain). Shift manager behind bar.

The best food is in the least pretentios pub which also has good beer (freehold). Landlord behind the bar.