Popular Restaurant food during the seventies

[Arran]

Re: Popular Restaurant food during the seventies

Anybody remember the Berni restaurants? Prawn cocktail, steak and chips, black forest cake.

Salads in the 1970s were a work of knife art with radish roses and tomatoes with serrated edges. A far cry from the Harvester with chopped up vegetables dumped haphazardly into a bowl.

[Richard1978]

Re: Popular Restaurant food during the seventies

My Dad liked Berni Inns for a time, but by the end of the 1970s they were falling behind the standards set by other restaurants.

Hard tomatoes served with steaks was one of my Dad's bugbears.

[zabadak]

Re: Popular Restaurant food during the seventies

Black Forest Gateaux! Drool!

[staffslad]

Re: Popular Restaurant food during the seventies

Black Forest gateau has never lost its popularity in our house .

[Arran]

Re: Popular Restaurant food during the seventies

Nobody with good tastes in food would have gone to Berni. It was a populist mass market restaurant designed for people who considered eating out to be a novelty.

It's cake, not gateau. English doesn't have separate words for a plain cake and a posh cake like German does so it ends up using the French word for cake to mean a posh cake.

[big kid]

Re: Popular Restaurant food during the seventies

Black Forest gateau has never lost its popularity in our house .

same here. love it.

[Richard1978]

Re: Popular Restaurant food during the seventies

Nobody with good tastes in food would have gone to Berni. It was a populist mass market restaurant designed for people who considered eating out to be a novelty.

It's cake, not gateau. English doesn't have separate words for a plain cake and a posh cake like German does so it ends up using the French word for cake to mean a posh cake.

Almost the same with Torte, which is German for a flan.

[DSCOMAN]

Re: Popular Restaurant food during the seventies

they used to sell chicken or scampi in the basket in clubs.....Rum babas LOVELY XX

[amethyst]

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Strawberry Gateau was always on the dessert trolley

[Mulletino]

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Spagetti Bolognese was something I always ordered when we went to Tomassi's in Southend (when it had booths in the downstairs area), even though we often had it at home.

Chicken Maryland kind of lives on over here as Chicken Schnitzels are huge, as is Chicken Parmigiana (although it's known as Parmy or Chicken in Pyjamas). Don't mind the odd schnitzel myself, nothing wrong with a giant chicken nugget!
Same with the Parmy, basically it's a pizza with a chicken nugget base, winner!

[amethyst]

Re: Popular Restaurant food during the seventies

they used to sell chicken or scampi in the basket in clubs.....Rum babas LOVELY XX

Yes I remember that in the disco night clubs

[Twocky61]

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Has to be the mega transport Kaff brekkie every time