New McD’s

On Saturday I’m up at 5am, for 4 toast and scrambled egg, before a quick shower dressed and out of the house, couple of cans on the train and numerous pints in London, before making my way to the ground around 13.30/14.00 at which time I’ll be ether calling at McDonalds for a 99p cheese burger or Greggs for a sausage roll or pasty, absolutely perfect for soaking up ale and filling a hole until you can get something substantial to eat. You get what you pay for and it cost a quid, surely you know what to expect from these places.

 

I love a silly o clock kebab to be fair.

 

Exactly. I don’t go there for anything but cheap convenience. It’s rare I go, but I enjoy a Big Mac when I do.

 

It's a new McDonalds with a largely teenage workforce, can hardly expect a Michelin experience. Went there the other night and it was just the same as every other McDonalds.

 

To be fair, in terms of Barnsley eateries, it’s probably in the top 20% of “restaurants”... getting good food in Barnsley is like finding a unicorn.. with dreadlocks.

 

As a man in his 20s with no kids, no experience looking after kids, and no intention of having kids, I say kids should not be eating McDonalds.

 

Harsh. Barnsley centre is well stocked with high quality restaurants, in my opinion.

 

Yer posh get ! . Our restaurants are more Dunlop than Michelin star .

 

I’ll take the most anorexic and unintended compliment, ta muchly, ;-)

It’s one of the things that pisses me off about Barnsley, so few places that you can have a decent meal out. Some okish places, but it’s sad even the better places aren’t as good as the local pubs just a stones throw from my front door.

 

When did you last try?

Off the top of my head without googling: -
Secret Italian
Favela
Lemon Tree
Pasha
Chilli (Indian and Grille)
Puccini's
One Momento
Brazilian in old Whispers on Regent Street
Passion Food

That's 10 without even trying. Why not give one a try?

Lots more quality places further afield: -
Royal at Barugh Green
Spencer Arms at Cawthorne
Three Acres (ok not really Barnsley but one of the best in the country)
Many more but I think I've made my point.

 

I have, as I say, it’s sad that the quality of restaurant in Barnsley is so poor.

 

Just before Christmas (missed that), tending to drive much further afield, or Sheffield now. But still, the food is largely lesser standard than most local pubs round here. I guess I’m lucky in that regard.

 

Where's "here", if I may ask. Each to their own of course, but I find eating out in Barnsley a delightful experience.

 

East dulwich, Pinnocks old stamping ground

 

We’ll ave non er that Michelin rubbish rarnd ere lad

 

Lol, no danger of that ;-)

The thing that I despair of so much now... so many pubs in London... do better yorkie puds than you find in my home town... proper hate that. Heresy.

 

No pub has ever done them better than mi mam or r lass .
Always better at home in small pudding tins and always ! always as a starter not with dinner .

 

A starter *gasp*

Some seriously good ones down here now, was in Whitechapel on Sunday and that was a seriously good Sunday lunch, proper meat gravy, good veg, good roasties, good yorkie pud... not shabby at all.

 

Sounds good a lot of people pour scorn on carverys but if I’m eating out that’s what I’d prefer tbh.
Starters is the proper Yorkshire way of eating Yorkies it goes back to the days when a traditional Sunday roast became popular and the poorer people would serve them up in large batches to fill up their family before the meagre offerings of dinner .

 

I’ve a thing where I lose my mind if I can’t soak up the gravy... yorkie pud has to go on my Sunday lunch!

Carverys can be good, but can be hit and miss depending when you land and if meat has dried out. If I’m in the north on a Sunday, the place on the corner near new miller dam was the place I’d take my mum, but that hit a bad patch last year, don’t know if it improved.