Has anyone been?... Looking for an affordable meal out at the weekend and I have been told that it was an exclusive place at bargain prices!... Any recommendations for a nice meal out this lovely sunny weekend?

It’s alright for a cheap and cheerful breakfast/carvery.

There’s a nice one over Bolton way, in a nice setting. The one in Keighley feels more like the Queen Vic.

Edit - it’s Crompton Way, Bolton

You’re a maniac if you’re going for a carvery in this weather

Half expected this to be a link to another pacey winger

Woonderbah wrote: ↑

Fri Aug 12, 2022 9:58 am

Half expected this to be a link to another pacey winger

...someone to carve open our opponent's defence.

Toby?, sign him on.

Not usually for me as I’m a fussy bugger but some can be really decent when I’m working away.
Guess you can’t go wrong for a low cost carvery or breakfast as someone else said above.

Someone with BigChaCha money wouldn't be seen in one of them.

Quickenthetempo wrote: ↑

Fri Aug 12, 2022 10:08 am

Someone with BigChaCha money wouldn't be seen in one of them.

I’d forgotten it was that poster was going to say it’s for all the riffraff that have been priced out of the nice restaurants that don’t microwave everything.

BigChaCha wrote: ↑

Fri Aug 12, 2022 9:46 am

Has anyone been?... Looking for an affordable meal out at the weekend and I have been told that it was an exclusive place at bargain prices!... Any recommendations for a nice meal out this lovely sunny weekend?

I can’t recommend any specific toby carveries but the angel at hetton is good quality food reasonably priced in pleasant surroundings.

"I used to be poorer than most and now I'm wealthier than most"

"Toby Carvery...Looking for an affordable meal out at the weekend and I have been told that it was an exclusive place at bargain prices!"



Only on here could those 2 lines be composed by the same person

“ exclusive place “
Hook , bait , cast!!

Toby Carvery’s are ok if you’re stuck miles away and starving at 3pm on a Tues and I guess you can wash down with a pint too . But carverys at weekends are hell on earth . I went to one last yr ,sort of on the way to Gawthorpe after coming off motorway bit before a cricket club ? Full of screaming kids , coffin dodgers etc and the food.. ( though cleverly presented ) was little more than re-heated /fried cheap frozen food level. A greasy spoon would have done better

“ exclusive place “
Hook , bait , cast!!

Looks like I caught a few as well I didn't think the thread would get past the mods and last this long to be honest

The only place I have ever been where Yorkshire pudding is served at breakfast. I stopped off at The Boat & Horses in Chadderton whilst on the road with work, for some lunch earlier in the week - we sat outside because it was a lovely, hot day. It amazed us how many people were demolishing the carvery on a day like that! Plates piled high with all the contents of a roast dinner.

Mind you, they do a roaring trade in roast dinners in Benidorm, Magaluf etc. so maybe I'm the one that's missing the point?

A Tony Carvery

The one and only time I ate that concoction of cheap fatty meat and over cooked vegetables that had been sat under some warm lights for 5 hours I think they were showing Hart to Hart on the TV in the corner

In all seriousness, I used to love a carvery or buffet but I am not a fan these days... I don't mind the new system of buffets I have seen at Chinese restaurants though, where you sit down and choose from a buffet meal card and it is cooked fresh for you.

Big Vinny K wrote: ↑

Fri Aug 12, 2022 10:49 am

A Tony Carvery

The one and only time I ate that concoction of cheap fatty meat and over cooked vegetables that had been sat under some warm lights for 5 hours I think they were showing Hart to Hart on the TV in the corner

This is about Toby’s Carvery BVK, Tony was Toby’s less successful brother .

AlargeClaret wrote: ↑

Fri Aug 12, 2022 11:04 am

This is about Toby’s Carvery BVK, Tony was Toby’s less successful brother .

Tony was about 5'1 they called him "Little Chef"

Bosscat wrote: ↑

Fri Aug 12, 2022 11:07 am

Tony was about 5'1 they called him "Little Chef"

The name “ Claret Tony Carvery “ was never gonna work in them days ..

Some snobs about!

Nothing wrong and everything right about a Toby Carvery. Very enjoyable, weekdays.

claretonthecoast1882 wrote: ↑

Fri Aug 12, 2022 10:39 am

"I used to be poorer than most and now I'm wealthier than most"

"Toby Carvery...Looking for an affordable meal out at the weekend and I have been told that it was an exclusive place at bargain prices!"



Only on here could those 2 lines be composed by the same person

Perhaps, by watching the pennies is why he is wealthier than most, maybe

Toby Carvery - fantastic if you can find a good clean restaurant to have one in, though they are few and far between these days.

I do like an all you can eat type buffet, there's one in MK called MK Buffet Village - which offers a selection of food from around the world for about £15 each (used to be about £8 a couple of years back... but inflation etc...)

all just for a treat though

Quickenthetempo wrote: ↑

Fri Aug 12, 2022 10:08 am

Someone with BigChaCha money wouldn't be seen in one of them.

Yes surely his OP is a wind up? He just wants to see how us plebs live.

BigChaCha, considerably richer than yow