The good food guide bans the tern Gastro pub
A welcome bit of news, in my opinion. It has for a long time now not just with the
name gastro pub but lose fitting cover all names that people award there
businesses that mean very little to any one but say to much about what might
actually be. To me the term Gastro pub is a name that came about when chefs who
wanted to take the food that they make to the people how can not afford or want
to go to restaurants that have all linen and wall to wall waiters. It is the classic surroundings of a pub with
the fine dining food of a good restaurant. The only problem with that is you
end up with a pub that becomes a restaurant, and the owner charges five to ten
pounds more a head calling it a gastro pub.
It is as I have often said to people call a French bread pizza a
brochette and you can charge more money. Just because you call your self, a
Gastro pub does not mean you are.
It is like the much abused term award winning. What award
and when did you win. I know of hotel that boost awards that no longer apply as
they won them over ten years ago and the staff who won the award have gone and
the whole market has moved on. However, as they have one once a long time ago
they consider them selves an award winning business. I knew a chef who won a
local newspaper competition best dessert, and after that, he was plugged as an
award-wining chef. I remember witnessing his so-called superior shellfish sauce
that was one tin of Baxter’s lobster bisque, some cream and white wine boiled
together.
But the term gastro pub I feel is a title that does not mean
any thing. A piece of P.R. spin that was used to describe a pub that did food
that was of a fine dinning quality. Not just a pub with a room that we now call
the restaurant and a chef with a squeeze bottle full of dressing and a
microwave premade lasagne. Not that there is any thing wrong in this but it is
if you use the term “gastro pub”.
Pubs have had to move from being pubs to do more food and
that is the way of things, and many of them do it well. But just because you
are a pub that does food does not mean your are a gastro pub. If you are
wondering what is a gastro pub then have a look at this article on this link .
I think it cover it better than me.
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