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[itsinyerblood]

Jamie Oliver's restaurants are pretty average Fayre. Hardly comparable with Ramsey and JO has never been near a Michelin Star. ( not that I think he's that bothered to be honest). Marco Pierre White sells stock pots these days and does cookery classes on cruises and puts his name to outlets similar to Oliver's. Hasn't been a player for years.

Bit much to be snooty about Sheffielders and then use two of those three as examples of fine dining when they're both far from it these days. Chain restaurants like Carluccios.

The top chefs aren't here because the economy isn't up to it. Leeds is much more succesful as is Manchester. Neither is full of starred restaurants.

I do a spiffing scrambled eggs with chives on sourdough toast. Fried tomatoes are optional as are Portobello mushrooms. Good rustic, peasant fare...comes at a price of course, but you get me as a courtesy bonus, peasant vocabulary and all.

On a slightly more serious note, I do take your point about the perception of Sheffield and what it manages to attract in the Michelin stakes. Having said that, there are some reasonable gaffs that are more than passable, unless of course you can't be seen anywhere other than somewhere featured in The Tatler.

 

[Sean Thornton]

I do a spiffing scrambled eggs with chives on sourdough toast. Fried tomatoes are optional as are Portobello mushrooms. Good rustic, peasant fare...comes at a price of course, but you get me as a courtesy bonus, peasant vocabulary and all.

On a slightly more serious note, I do take your point about the perception of Sheffield and what it manages to attract in the Michelin stakes. Having said that, there are some reasonable gaffs that are more than passable, unless of course you can't be seen anywhere other than somewhere featured in The Tatler.

I'm not saying Michelin starred restaurants are the be all and end all, they aren't. It was that scoffing at the culinary habits of people and using two chain restaurants as an example of "good" food is a bit odd.

There are still good places to eat here, as you say, and loads in London if you know where they are.

Must admit though, Ive seen plenty of burger vans around Chelsea and Fulham but that must be just Blades ordering lard sandwiches and dripping cakes while the locals dine at Restaurant Gordon Ramsay and the River Cafe.

I don't like chives!

 

[itsinyerblood]

I'm not saying Michelin starred restaurants are the be all and end all, they aren't. It was that scoffing at the culinary habits of people and using two chain restaurants as an example of "good" food is a bit odd.

There are still good places to eat here, as you say, and loads in London if you know where they are.

Must admit though, Ive seen plenty of burger vans around Chelsea and Fulham but that must be just Blades ordering lard sandwiches and dripping cakes while the locals dine at Restaurant Gordon Ramsay and the River Cafe.

I don't like chives!

All written in jest Sean. Your observations are good ones though. Of course nowhere's going to be able to compete with London when it comes to why it's able to support so many eateries, many of which come and go in an instant. There are many great restaurants, some I've visited, others I've not had the chance to experience. To be honest, whenever I get the chance to pop down to London I don't find it difficult to find somewhere that offers reasonable scoff. Never managed to eat at The River Cafe, Mossiman's, or similar, but I suppose I set my sights a little lower, mainly due to time and pocket.

You don't like chives?!?! Sacre bleu!

 

[Tyler Durden]

Are you kidding me? Where? Gordon Ramsey, Jamie Oliver, Marco Pierre White etc wouldn't entertain Sheffield where culinary expectations don't go any further than a curry with three pints of lager.

Your average Sheffielder thinks a Michelin Star is a tyre and if a meal costs more than a tenner he's being ripped off. If you think I'm exaggerating look no further than the queue at the catering kiosks at the Lane next home game. How anyone eats that shit beggars belief, I can't think of worse match food, or any food come to think of it, anywhere in the country.

There's a Marco Pierre White restaurant on West Bar Green as it happens. There's also Silversmiths which has won national critical acclaim to name just two off the top of my head, Gordon Ramsey himself has been a patron at Silversmiths.

I say this as a lifelong resident of Sheffield who has an in-depth knowledge of my hometown, and not some lumpen-proletariat scum like some ten bob snobs on this thread like to characterise all Sheffielders as.....

 

[Sean Thornton]

You can't just come up with a generalisation and present it as fact. What utter tosh.



More bollocks. Besides the fact that we turn up because it's our club, how difficult was it to get a ticket in our most recent Premier League season? And how much were tickets? I know they weren't bloody cheap because I was a kid trying to get to as many games as possible on a paper round wage, and my money didn't stretch very far.

Any insinuation that Unitedites only turn up because it's cheap is insulting, quite frankly.



I'll give you the point about the financial companies and head offices etc, but find me a city where those companies aren't major retailers? The Primark's in London, Manchester and Bristol are huge. Yes we've been left behind somewhat on the retail side, but it is changing.

No idea what you're on about with the 'dirty filthy bars' comment. And there are some cracking restaurants in the city centre.

If you choose to go in said filthy bars that's your choice. Any names here JJ? Which bars aren't filthy in your opinion?

 

[I should coco]

I'm currently paying around £12 per match with my season ticket. I won't get away with that much longer,

Yes a thirty odd year old bloke with a Junior Blades under 7 ticket. One of the stewards will spot you one day.

I say this as a lifelong resident of Sheffield who has an in-depth knowledge of my hometown

In depth eh?

No googling and here a few off the top of my head:-

What is the statue of, on top of the Town Hall?

What was the original name of the Fat Cat?

What was the original brewery at Lady's Bridge, before Whitbread took them over?

What was the Sheffield car and motorbike maker that packed up in the 1920s?

When did Sheffield get it's City status?

What was the population (approx) in 1800 just before the steel expansion?

What national union had its HQ in the city in the 1980s & 90s?

What year was Sheffield bombed in WWI and how many died?

How many died in the Sheffield blitz of 1940?

Where did the king of Northumbria surrender to the king of Wessex, to make the first Saxon king of all England?

What was the name of the pub at the bottom of Eccy Road, opposite Wards?

When were Sheffield FC formed?

What year did the last tram run?

What was the pub on Broad Lane called before it bacame Fagans?

When was the Park Hill flats complex finished?

When were Kelvin Flats demolished?

What's my favourite curry and would you say I am fantastically good looking or just very handsome?

No entries accepted from Silent or WWF, Walthy or any other old buggers who know too much.

 

[Selly]

What national union had its HQ in the city in the 1980s & 90s?

TGWU?

Where did the king of Northumbria surrender to the king of Wessex, to make the first Saxon king of all England?

Sheffield?

What's my favourite curry and would you say I am fantastically good looking or just very handsome?

Jalfrezi, and No

 

[Sean Thornton]

Yes a thirty odd year old bloke with a Junior Blades under 7 ticket. One of the stewards will spot you one day.



In depth eh?

No googling and here a few off the top of my head:-

What is the statue of, on top of the Town Hall?

What was the original name of the Fat Cat?

What was the original brewery at Lady's Bridge, before Whitbread took them over?

What was the Sheffield car and motorbike maker that packed up in the 1920s?

When did Sheffield get it's City status?

What was the population (approx) in 1800 just before the steel expansion?

What national union had its HQ in the city in the 1980s & 90s?

What year was Sheffield bombed in WWI and how many died?

How many died in the Sheffield blitz of 1940?

Where did the king of Northumbria surrender to the king of Wessex, to make the first Saxon king of all England?

What was the name of the pub at the bottom of Eccy Road, opposite Wards?

When were Sheffield FC formed?

What year did the last tram run?

What was the pub on Broad Lane called before it bacame Fagans?

When was the Park Hill flats complex finished?

When were Kelvin Flats demolished?

What's my favourite curry and would you say I am fantastically good looking or just very handsome?

No entries accepted from Silent or WWF, Walthy or any other old buggers who know too much.

Know all the answers except the curry one so I'm going for Aldis essential savers Korma? Yes?

 

[coolhandluke]

TGWU?

NUM

 

[I should coco]

TGWU?

Sheffield?

Jalfrezi, and No

No.

Obviously bloody Sheffield but more detail needed.

Jalfrezi - Yes, but you got the next bit really badly wrong.

Go and stand in the corner with the tall pointy hat!

 

[I should coco]

Know all the answers except the curry one so I'm going for Aldis essential savers Korma? Yes?

Smart arse!

Who is 'Aldis' and more importantly, does he have a Michelin star?

 

[Sean Thornton]

Smart arse!

Who is 'Aldis' and more importantly, does he have a Michelin star?

Three, but he's only opened a burger van in Sheffield.

 

[I should coco]

Tyler is sweating and has clearly bottled the challenge.

He will come back with some pathetic excuse like
'you've only given me 20 minutes and I'm running for a bus / at work in a meeting with my boss/ attending the birth of my first child / looking after a sick rabbit' or similar.

He can have a bit longer, but then he will be chased out of town by men with sticks.

 

[Sean Thornton]

Tyler is sweating and has clearly bottled the challenge.

He will come back with some pathetic excuse like
'you've only given me 20 minutes and I'm running for a bus / at work in a meeting with my boss/ attending the birth of my first child / looking after a sick rabbit' or similar.

He can have a bit longer, but then he will be chased out of town by men with sticks.

He's trying to decide whether it's Grey or Gray and if Barrel has one L or two.

 

[Tyler Durden]

Yes a thirty odd year old bloke with a Junior Blades under 7 ticket. One of the stewards will spot you one day.



In depth eh?

No googling and here a few off the top of my head:-

What is the statue of, on top of the Town Hall?

What was the original name of the Fat Cat?

What was the original brewery at Lady's Bridge, before Whitbread took them over?

What was the Sheffield car and motorbike maker that packed up in the 1920s?

When did Sheffield get it's City status?

What was the population (approx) in 1800 just before the steel expansion?

What national union had its HQ in the city in the 1980s & 90s?

What year was Sheffield bombed in WWI and how many died?

How many died in the Sheffield blitz of 1940?

Where did the king of Northumbria surrender to the king of Wessex, to make the first Saxon king of all England?

What was the name of the pub at the bottom of Eccy Road, opposite Wards?

When were Sheffield FC formed?

What year did the last tram run?

What was the pub on Broad Lane called before it bacame Fagans?

When was the Park Hill flats complex finished?

When were Kelvin Flats demolished?

What's my favourite curry and would you say I am fantastically good looking or just very handsome?

No entries accepted from Silent or WWF, Walthy or any other old buggers who know too much.

Ooh you fucker, put me on the spot

Ok:

1. Vulcan
2. Pass
3. Pass
4.Tennant Brothers
5. Pass
6.1893
7. 60,000
8. NUM (it was being bugged from the building opposite by MI5 allegedly)
9. 1916 (first bomb hit Burngreave Cemetary)
10. Circa 800?
11. Pass
12. Pass
13. 1857 (I'm a club member)
14. 1961
15. The Barrel
16. 1961 again
17. 1995 ish?
18. I think you're a Rogan Josh kinda guy. I would also imagine that you've moistened many a gusset in your time.

 

[Tyler Durden]

I've got the Blitz question wrong I know.

 

[I should coco]

A fair old effort and top marks for some of the dates.

The answers are AFAIA:

What is the statue of, on top of the Town Hall? VULCAN

What was the original name of the Fat Cat? THE ALMA

What was the original brewery at Lady's Bridge, before Whitbread took them over? TENNANT BROTHERS

What was the Sheffield car and motorbike maker that packed up in the 1920s? SIMPLEX

When did Sheffield get it's City status? 1893

What was the population (approx) in 1800 just before the steel expansion? 30,000

What national union had its HQ in the city in the 1980s & 90s? NUM

What year was Sheffield bombed in WWI and how many died? ZEPPELIN RAID 1916, 28

How many died in the Sheffield blitz of 1940? MORE THAN 660

Where did the king of Northumbria surrender to the king of Wessex, to make the first Saxon king of all England? DORE VILLAGE GREEN

What was the name of the pub at the bottom of Eccy Road, opposite Wards? DEVONSHIRE ARMS

When were Sheffield FC formed? 1857

What year did the last tram run? 1960

What was the pub on Broad Lane called before it became Fagans? THE BARREL INN

When was the Park Hill flats complex finished? 1961

When were Kelvin Flats demolished? 1995/96

I'm feeling generous so I'll call it 11 out of 16.

 

[Selly]

No.

Obviously bloody Sheffield but more detail needed.

Jalfrezi - Yes, but you got the next bit really badly wrong.

Go and stand in the corner with the tall pointy hat!

would you say I am fantastically good looking or just very handsome?

I wouldn`t say that - ergo my answer was correct.

 

[I should coco]

I wouldn`t say that - ergo my answer was correct.

Okay, Tyler gets the pointy hat and you go and stand outside the headmaster's office for being cheeky.

 

[Sean Thornton]

Wasn't the Earl Grey opposite Wards as well?

 

[I should coco]

Wasn't the Earl Grey opposite Wards as well?

No, it was on the same side and roughly where the Peugot dealership was.

Defintely the Dev accross the road.

 

[I should coco]

Should probably be in the 'old pictures thread' but such a shame another lovely old boozer got destroyed so here are a few more pics:

 

[Minty]

Wasn't the Earl Grey opposite Wards as well?

Think that was the Jolly Buffer before it got turned into flats - bit of a hairy bikers boozer from memory.

 

[Esablade]

Think that was the Jolly Buffer before it got turned into flats - bit of a hairy bikers boozer from memory.

..motorbike on the dance floor as I recall

 

[Sean Thornton]

Think that was the Jolly Buffer before it got turned into flats - bit of a hairy bikers boozer from memory.

No I remember that. Memory went haywire over the Earl Grey