Cakeage

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At least e.g. Opentable auto cancels a booking if you make another for a similar time.

[poodlefaker]

Specialist pudding venues are the future, maaaan, fuck ordering desert in the same place as your main. Too many decent gastropubs only have generic bought-in puddings for £6 a pop. Let's move on and have waffles or whatever. Then we can have another row about where to go too yay!

Common "on the continent". You go for dinner then move on somewhere lse for an ice cream or whatever. Also Creams are opening loads of places round our way, not sure if they're UK-wide.

[Icehaven]

Common "on the continent". You go for dinner then move on somewhere lse for an ice cream or whatever. Also Creams are opening loads of places round our way, not sure if they're UK-wide.

Are these pudding places licensed too, or do those of us with no sweet tooth but cast iron livers who typically order a last drink instead of dessert lose out?

[idunnosomename]

om noms gin o clock cakeage

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I'm on this person's side:

"On Saturday nights, when they've had a drink, certain people can get carried away and start helping themselves to the garnishes on my street-food stall like it's a Harvester salad bar. I've had someone grab a literal handful of pickled carrot and walk off; another tipped a whole bowl of pricey micro-coriander on to their plate. Then you get people reaching for our serving utensils to prettify their plates with toppings for Instagram. I'm like: 'What are you doing?!'"

Sounds nightmarish, but I suppose there is a debate to be had about whether "expensive micro-garnish" is something that should even exist.

[Sebastian Cobb]

What is 'micro coriander'? Is it like when I run the thing through a food processor?

[imitationleather]

Are these pudding places licensed too, or do those of us with no sweet tooth but cast iron livers who typically order a last drink instead of dessert lose out?

I initially thought that the dessert places were a pub equivalent for Muslims. But now I see they're actually for greedy bastards too.

Disclosure: I very rarely have dessert.

[idunnosomename]

I always have another glass of wine for pudding

well unless both are free of course

[Sebastian Cobb]

I rarely have dessert, I'd go for a cheeseboard, but in in Scotland they ruin them by serving oatcakes rather than crackers and I just don't think I can bring myself to be the sort of awkward cunt who asks them if they can do it with crackers instead.

[poodlefaker]

Are these pudding places licensed too, or do those of us with no sweet tooth but cast iron livers who typically order a last drink instead of dessert lose out?

Europe mate, you can get a drink anywhere. Cheap brandy w/your coffee, Fernet Branca, Pernod for breakfast, no problem.

[Butchers Blind]

I rarely have dessert, I'd go for a cheeseboard

This is correct.

[Chollis]

cheeky nando then pop over the road for some cakeage!!!!!

[idunnosomename]

pass and have chekky pint

[Icehaven]

I rarely have dessert, I'd go for a cheeseboard, but in in Scotland they ruin them by serving oatcakes rather than crackers and I just don't think I can bring myself to be the sort of awkward cunt who asks them if they can do it with crackers instead.

Ostensibly I'd say the same, but if I've had my way my starter and main have probably both involved cheese in some capacity, so a third lot of cheese might be a bit much, but if not then bring it on.
Never arsed about dessert though, I've got no sweet tooth and I'm unlikely to be hungry anymore so don't really want to eat something I don't even particularly want.

[Inspector Norse]

That's why some restaurants now take your credit card details and charge you 200 nicker if you don't show up. Imagine they did it to that cunt of a human being. That would be sweet.

Do Amazon warehouse tours do that as well, I wonder?

[Flatulent Fox]

Silly wordage.Also fk restaurateurs for not being able to provide birthday cakes for the most part.
'Cake excise tax' would be far superior.
                                                              "There will be a £27 C.E.T. for that Colin the Caterpiller,you fucks"

[thenoise]

I rarely have dessert, I'd go for a cheeseboard, but in in Scotland they ruin them by serving oatcakes rather than crackers and I just don't think I can bring myself to be the sort of awkward cunt who asks them if they can do it with crackers instead.

Every restaurant ever: several large chunks of cheese of different types and a bowl full of chutney and a few grapes/celery/apple/whatever. How many crackers shall we provide? I think TWO SMALL ONES should be absolutely plenty. We can all have a giggle while thenoise, two shy to ask for more crackers, is forced to eat cheese by itself like some kind of mouse.

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The temperature is more the issue, serving the cheese only one degree warmer than the frozen desserts.

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The temperature is more the issue, serving the cheese only one degree warmer than the frozen desserts.

I think there is a fear they will warp.

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sometimes get the opposite cracker-wise. Turned up very pissed at a posh place in London and they left a large Tupperware box-full, but that might have been meant to soak up some of the alcohol. A place in Italy left a sort of mini sideboard with various biscuits and bread in the drawers, to go with two tiny pucks of cheese.

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I like the Tupperware ones.  Passive-aggressive acceptance that you're going to be sick so please do it in these containers and not everywhere.

[dissolute ocelot]

There's several pubs I know will do you a Tunnocks caramel log or even a brownie with your pint. Fuck all these dessert bars with their sprinkles, I can't even tell if they're meant to be ironic or not.

[Buelligan]

Chefs are such precious egomaniacs.

"We want people to have a good time. If that involves having a cigarette, it's a free world. But it can mess up the timings in how we run service. You're cooking fish to order, it's got 30 seconds left in the pan, then you're told: 'No, sorry, someone's out having a cigarette.' That's a niggle."

This is daft though. If some smoker wants to go out for a tab they're the ones risking their food coming, when I smoked I'd never expect them to hold things for me and I'd be pretty pissed off as someone else at the table waiting for my food if it was being delayed by some tit smoking outside. Fuck 'em.

I think fag breaks are OK between courses if you're eating somewhere where you literally do not care what the food tastes like and will not complain however it turns out.  If it's not that sort of deal then tab time's a problem.  Restaurants live and die by review and nowadays, every fuck's a critic. 

No-show booking restaurant cunts though. I was once on a work thing in a strange town with a guy who travels all the time, and he booked tables at 3 different restaurants, decided which one he wanted to go to, and then didn't bother to cancel the others.

This though, this, is really very very bad indeed.  People who do this are abominable cunts.  Not only undermining often struggling businesses and endangering jobs but also denying the table to someone who will bother to turn up.  Truly cuntish.