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Chester · 22-01-2009, 03:32 PM

For anyone that watched the one hour programme condensed in to three hours this week and are curious I would recommend it.

The food is excellent but the portions are smaller and prices higher. You get what you pay for I suppose. The place is spotless and the staff have benefitted from their experience.

Butterflygirl · 22-01-2009, 08:55 PM

Been watching that, the steak and ale pie looked good.

basingstokeroyal · 23-01-2009, 05:44 PM

Still cant beat an Olympic Breakfast though tee hee.

Ex-member · (This post was last modified: 23-01-2009 08:08 PM by Ex-member.)

I wasn't going to join in on this one as we've all got different tastes, (oops sowwy!) But I use Little Chefs now and again when it suits my journey.

I did go in our local one the other day and was surprised to see the refurbishment. I can't say I'm really happy with it, it's more like a traditional American Diner. I prefer the old style table and chairs I'm afraid.

As I was only there at breakfast time, that the only option I had, namely - the 'breakfast menu.' I chose the smaller breakfast not having a figure to eat an 'Olympic' anymore. I must admit I was surprised at how small it was, or was it just the giant dinner plate my meal was served on? No, it was a tiny breakfast for the money.

One miserable sausage the size of a chippolatta, one small egg, a portion of beans, one rasher of bacon with the fat still attached, and a slice of warm toast.
Happily the service was brilliant, but I was still hungry on exiting. To hell with all the ponsy food, they need to get the breakfasts right first or no one will return for lunch.

basingstokeroyal · 24-01-2009, 09:43 PM

End of the day a Little Chef is a roadside cafe.

Chester · (This post was last modified: 26-01-2009 09:28 AM by Chester.)

(23-01-2009 08:08 PM)Brian Wrote: One miserable sausage the size of a chippolatta, one small egg, a portion of beans, one rasher of bacon with the fat still attached, and a slice of warm toast.
Happily the service was brilliant, but I was still hungry on exiting. To hell with all the ponsy food, they need to get the breakfasts right first or no one will return for lunch.

The LC food has been going 'ponsy' for years that was one of the identified problems. The menu looked like the canteen at the UN - no overall theme. And the quality was poor - the example given was the remarkably low meat content of the sausages. What Heston suggested was stripping out all the 'foreign', low quality rubbish and concentrating on British food and increasing the quality. So the makover left LC with if anything less ponsy food. Your 'miserable' sausage was far less miserable than it's predecessors.

(24-01-2009 09:43 PM)basingstokeroyal Wrote: End of the day a Little Chef is a roadside cafe.

Exactly - hence the 'back to basics' revamp of the menu.

basingstokeroyal · 27-01-2009, 02:20 PM

Would not call what they were serving up though as "back to basics".

Chester · 27-01-2009, 02:46 PM

What exactly is ponsy then?

Fish'n'chips, bangers and mash, cottage pie, all day breakfast, burgers, etc. The only thing that was mildly ponsy was coq au vin and it's only ponsy 'cause it's written in French!

basingstokeroyal · 03-02-2009, 04:54 PM

Who said anything about ponsy? Place is busy now because of the advertising it received - will soon where off when the HGV driver wants his typical greasy spoon food at a fair price and not willing to change. This wont catch on.

Chester · 03-02-2009, 09:45 PM

(03-02-2009 04:54 PM)basingstokeroyal Wrote: Who said anything about ponsy?

Need you ask?