Local pub Co food rankings

[DovertheRoad]

Whilst noting some old timers want to hark back to the days of hard boiled eggs on the bar, please can the esteemed members of the forum rank their pub Co brands by quality of food offering? 1=best etc

Contenders:

M&B (eg Plough,Dog)

Youngs (yacht club, the kids club on the hill)

Fullers (Half Moon)

Greene King (Bishop,The Actress, Rye etc)

Antic (EDT)

Laines (eg Great exhibition)

Thanks.

[DovertheRoad]

Ok...here's mine

1. Laines

2. Fullers

3. Greene King

4. Antic

5. Youngs

6. M&B's reheated slop

[????]

Would have exactly the same order...but I do remember you praising a Youngs Burger (Woodman) from the rooftops fairly recently?

[Jeremy]

I think it makes more sense to rank individual pubs. Particularly with Antic and Fullers, they vary so much, and the menus are often completely different.

M&B is consistently poor though.

[Jah Lush]

I'd pretty much have the same order as DTR. M&B is just plain awful, which is another reason why when the newly refurbished C&G re-opens the food offerings will be crap compared to the Half Moon who have a proper and well renowned chef on site. Another own goal for Dulwich Estates.

[BrandNewGuy]

Agree with Jeremy about Antic. They are clever about their food offering. The EDT is regular good standard but not great modern pub fare, given the huge range of other eating options on LL. The Catford Constitutional Club by contrast, is genuinely very good indeed ? in an area that's a bit of an eating-out desert.

[Otta]

Whilst I agree on M&B, I have had one or two really nice roasts in the plough, as well as some not so good ones. So even they are hit and miss.

[JohnL]

Jah Lush Wrote:

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> I'd pretty much have the same order as DTR. M&B is

> just plain awful, which is another reason why when

> the newly refurbished C&G re-opens the food

> offerings will be crap compared to the Half Moon

> who have a proper and well renowned chef on site.

> Another own goal for Dulwich Estates.

Unless it's how they plan it :)

[Lowlander]

DovertheRoad Wrote:

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> Ok...here's mine

>

> 1. Laines

> 2. Fullers

> 3. Greene King

> 4. Antic

> 5. Youngs

> 6. M&B's reheated slop

Broadly agree although I haven't eaten in a Fuller's bar for some years now. Surprising that Greene King - whose ales a pretty mediocre - manage passable food.

M&B is depressing and very expensive for what it is, especially if it's not on expenses. But a lot of people seem to like their food...

[Alan Medic]

Veterans discussing food in pubs. What happened to you?

[KidKruger]

The Castle does a consistently plain and passable grated cheese sarnie - and at the price point where there's no upset over the occasional crusty corner.

[Sue]

KidKruger Wrote:

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> The Castle does a consistently plain and passable

> grated cheese sarnie - and at the price point

> where there's no upset over the occasional crusty

> corner.

:))

[Earl Aelfheah]

Who owns the Watson Telegraph? Anyway, they do good roasts.

[DulwichFox]

rahrahrah Wrote:

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> Who owns the Watson Telegraph? Anyway, they do

> good roasts.

I believe it is owned by Laines..

Foxy

[Wimpole]

rahrahrah Wrote:

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> Who owns the Watson Telegraph? Anyway, they do

> good roasts.

I agree with this. WGT have great food and one of the best craft beer /ale selections in the area. Also a no screens policy so no sport shown which is often welcome.

[Mick Mac]

I rarely eat in pubs - I don't really know why tbh, although if I'm out for beers ill tend to eat before i go out

I'm assuming you are not including the Lordship Frnaklins and Palmerston where I think people consider to be restaurants

I think my choices are pubs for drinking and the above three if going out principally for food.

[keano77]

Pubs are for boozing not eating. However, like Brexit, it's too late to stop it. If you light-weights must have food then bring back scampi-in-the-basket and the cockle man turning up at last orders.

[Jeremy]

Is food in pubs actually "new"? That's not really how I remember things.

[DovertheRoad]

Age Jeremy. The difference is that you're 36, Keano is 77 and harking back to the early 1970's.

[Seabag]

keano77 Wrote:

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> Pubs are for boozing not eating. However, like

> Brexit, it's too late to stop it. If you

> light-weights must have food then bring back

> scampi-in-the-basket and the cockle man turning up

> at last orders.

I swear this guy is Louisa's husband.

[keano77]

DovertheRoad Wrote:

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> Age Jeremy. The difference is that you're 36,

> Keano is 77 and harking back to the early 1970's.

Old enough to know you need to remove the apostrophe from 1970s please (it's plural)

[keano77]

Seabag Wrote:

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> keano77 Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > Pubs are for boozing not eating. However, like

> > Brexit, it's too late to stop it. If you

> > light-weights must have food then bring back

> > scampi-in-the-basket and the cockle man turning

> up

> > at last orders.

>

>

> I swear this guy is Louisa's husband.

I wish ...

[Mick Mac]

You don't

[Otta]

To be fair to Keano, I am kind of with him.

It's not that I don't want to see food in pubs, I just wish it wasn't in pretty much EVERY pub.

I realise that the pubs (especially in London) basically need to sell food to survive, and that the sort of place I long for is history. But that doesn't mean I can't long for it.

Think I said to someone the other day, what I long for is a really nice "old man's pub", just with good beer and less miserable old men.

I need to move back to Liverpool, they still seem to exist there.

Anyway, as you were.

[????]

Hermits Cave Otta - (no apostrophe for the pedant of the thread)