If I opened an English restaurant what dishes should be a must?

Flynn_17

English? Yorkshire Puddings Fish and Chips Sunday Roast Beef Wellington Bangers and Mash Shepherd's Pie If it was a British restaurant, one would have to include Laver Bread, Rarebit, Bubble and Squeak, Haggis, among other things... Nov 26 05, 1:14 PM

TabbyTom

Lancashire hotpot Toad in the hole Boiled beef and carrots Jellied eels Nov 26 05, 1:22 PM

romeomikegolf

Today most English restaurants serve international cuisine. If you want a true English menu however it must include at least some of the following: The Full Monty; a breakfast which consists of most of these: Sausage,bacon,baked beans,egg(fried or scrambled),grilled tomatoes.fried bread,black pudding,toast and large mugs of tea. Steak and kidney pie Cod,chips(thats fries for the non English) and mushy peas Roast beef,roast potatoes,roast parsnips,another veg of choice,gravy,mustard and horseradish sauce. Faggots,(if you want to know whats in them, you'll never eat them),mash and mushy peas. Chicken Tikka Masala Apple crumble and custard. Bread and butter pudding. And loads more, but there isn't enough room to list them. Nov 26 05, 1:26 PM

Baloo55th

I would suggest proper pudding dishes for the dessert. I hate getting my pud on a plate, as the sauce gets cold. Apart from that, nice ones with divisions in for serving the veg to go with the roast. Apart from that, just use plates. Foodwise, it would depend where you were opening it. In England, restaurants (not counting foreign ethnic ones) serve everything but the things listed by the others. The roast, yes, and rarely Beef Wellington, but I've only found that in one pub. Probably on the menu only because the pub is called the Wellington. Cafes serve the breakfasts and fish and chips (you do get Fish and Chip Restaurants, but they're really cafes), and meals that consist of selections from sausage, egg, bacon, chips, tomato, baked beans, peas, egg, bacon, sausage, chips, baked beans, etc. Hotpot or scouse tend to be specials. Nov 26 05, 3:53 PM

Flynn_17

Rice pudding! And although most fish and chip restaurants are just cafés, there are a lot of franchises, Look at Murgatroyd's, Marlowe's, and so on... Oh, and spotted dick. Nov 26 05, 4:28 PM

bloomsby

I agree with Romeo. You really ought to go to town on the breakfasts. It used to be (for those who had the time and money) a multi-course meal that could easily make lunch redundant. I'd suggest starting breakfast with cereals, followed by kippers, and for the main course you really ought to offer something like kidneys with scrambled eggs as an alternative to fried eggs, sausages and bacon - or you could even offer both in succession for those who want it! Wow Nov 26 05, 4:45 PM

peasypod

Is it just me or does this question conjure up memories of "Goodness Gracious Me" (Or it could have been the Kumars) in one sketch the Indian guys are in an English restaurant ordering "Something really, really, really bland---extra bland if it does not trouble you, many, many thanks, extra bland..." One of the funniest moments, I tell ya. Nov 26 05, 5:56 PM

romeomikegolf

Yes Peasy it was Goodness Gracious Me and they called it Going for an English. Now go and chuck another shrimp on the barbie. :-) Nov 26 05, 10:53 PM

gmackematix

This lists some dishes and puts some historical perspective on it all: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_cuisine Nov 26 05, 11:34 PM

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