Southampton Sunday dinner

[nevertolate]

We are gong on a Transatlantic in October leaving from Southampton would love to take my family to a good English Sunday dinner any  good pubs around our Premier Inn west Quay.

Christine

[MBP&O2/O]

Certainly not at the Premier Inn 😉 We stayed there and, on a Sunday evening, walked down to Ennios ... they were serving a Sunday lunch. Very nice meal. 

[John Bull]

Hi Christine,

 

First things first......

Sunday's meal of the day is a traditional Sunday roast LUNCH.

Served from noon thro to about 2pm or later- much later in some establishments but don't go later cos in some pubs the late roasts will be on their last knockings.

Sunday lunch is very popular in England, wherever you choose it's best to pre-book. A week in advance is usually good enough - presuming you'll not be in England then, most venues advertise their e-mail addresses. Quote your prefered time.

 

Ennio's isn't an English pub, it's an Italian restaurant.

We've been going out for a roast sunday lunch regularly for decades (Covid-excepted) but rarely in the city and our favourite haunt for a roast sunday lunch is also an Italian restaurant, so don't let "Italian restaurant" put you off Ennio's for a sunday lunch. We've only dined there in the evenings & it's excellent altho at around £20 its sunday lunch is a little more expensive than pubs.

A five minute walk from your hotel.

https://ennios.co.uk/

 

Inside the old city walls and just around the corner from Ennio's the Duke of Wellington is a traditional old English pub and a favourite for cruisers. Their sunday roast lunch isn't detailed, but yes they offer roast sunday lunches. Again, we've only dined there in the evenings

http://www.southampton-pubs.co.uk/dukeofwellington/#main

https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Restaurant_Review-g186299-d3244804-Reviews-Duke_of_Wellington-Southampton_Hampshire_England.html

 

Between The Duke of Wellington and Ennio's is The Dancing Man, a quirky pub & micro-brewery.

Housed in the atmospheric stone-built 14th Century Wool House, which has had many uses over the centuries, including a prison for French prisoners of war, a workshop producing motor launches and pioneer aircraft, a tram depot and the city's Maritime Museum. We've eaten & drank there, but not sunday lunch

https://dancingmanbrewery.co.uk/wool-house-history/

https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Restaurant_Review-g186299-d7761599-Reviews-or10-Dancing_Man_Brewery-Southampton_Hampshire_England.html

 

A 15-minute walk or short taxi ride from your hotel is the White Star Tavern

https://www.whitestartavern.co.uk/food/sunday-menu

https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Restaurant_Review-g186299-d733777-Reviews-The_White_Star_Tavern-Southampton_Hampshire_England.html

 

A couple more restaurants which offer excellent though more-expensive sunday lunch but without pub prices and atmoshere 

Southampton Harbour Hotel (a short taxi ride)

We've had an excellent sunday lunch there

https://www.harbourhotels.co.uk/southampton/eat-and-drink

and 

The Grand Cafe, a 15 min walk or short taxi ride. Housed in an elegant railway hotel from the time of Titanic - many of her passengers spent their pre-departure night there.

The building now houses a number of businesses, The Grand Cafe is best-known for its afternon teas and sunday lunches.

https://grand-cafe.co.uk/

 

That's just a selection, there are plenty of others within a 15 minute radius - sadly most of the best sunday lunches are in restaurants, so you may be torn between the lunch & the venue.

 

JB 🙂

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Harters]

2 hours ago, John Bull said:

Sunday's meal of the day is a traditional Sunday roast LUNCH.

That may be the case where you are, JB, but here in the northwest of England, many of us would still call that traditional Sunday meal "dinner" (or a "Sunday Roast"), even though it's eaten at lunchtime. In fact, many of us would call meals in the middle of the day "dinner" and the evening meal "tea".  But I'm posh, so I don't.

Edited March 23, 2022 by Harters

[John Bull]

1 hour ago, Harters said:

That may be the case where you are, JB, but here in the northwest of England, many of us would still call that traditional Sunday meal "dinner" (or a "Sunday Roast"), even though it's eaten at lunchtime. In fact, many of us would call meals in the middle of the day "dinner" and the evening meal "tea".  But I'm posh, so I don't.

 

After nearly 400 years of domestic peace, I see a Civil War brewing again 😄

 

In the south,, dinner is for kids in the middle of the day (as in "school dinners", paid for with "dinner money"), and tea (as in fish fingers and tinned beans, or sausages & chips) is for kids when they get home from school.

 

We posh Southerners have lunch in the middle of the day, our posh wives have afternoon tea mid-to-late afternoon, then around 7.30 to 8 in the evening, when the young kids are tucked-up in bed and the older kids have their noses in social media or video-games, we have dinner.

So you're really a Southerner at heart.🙂

Our wives used to pride themselves on their sunday roasts but nowadays they're as lazy as us, so on sundays we go to the pub for sunday lunch - which of course is never as good as grandma's roasts but we still go there.

 

In just two paragraphs I've managed to offend 99% of Northerners and 50% of Southerners.🙃

But the intent was to ensure that Nevertolate didn't go out on sunday evening looking for a traditional British roast.

 

JB 🙂

[flossie009]

IMO, Brunch and Supper are the ideal meals for a lazy Sunday 😉

 

[John Bull]

17 hours ago, flossie009 said:

IMO, Brunch and Supper are the ideal meals for a lazy Sunday 😉

 

 

Mine too. But sadly you're not my wife 😉

 

JB 🙂

Edited March 24, 2022 by John Bull

[nevertolate]

Thank you John now we have to make up our mind.Like you said it depends where you come from.

 

[Harters]

On 3/23/2022 at 5:16 PM, flossie009 said:

Brunch and Supper

Now, everyone understands brunch. But supper is another one where it depends who and where you are.  To people like me, supper is a couple of Rich Tea biscuits and a glass of milk just before I go to bed. I suspect you mean something else.

[Issyalex]

Up here It’s a Sunday roast, which is served all day in Glasgow. Lunch is mid day, dinner is your main meal and supper is a piece in toast before bed. We are ladies who lunch and afternoon tea includes bubbles. 😀
 

 

Edited April 8, 2022 by Issyalex

[jeh10641]

As an American I find it all very confusing. When we wake up around 7 AM, we have breakfast. After a vigorous work out at my athletic center (gym), I have lunch, usually at a sports bar so I can view games on TV or chat with like-minded friends. (By the way, I am retired.) Usually on Saturday and Sunday, lunch is at home since the beginning of Covid. Around 6:30 or 7:-00 in the evening, we have dinner/supper (more formal/less formal). If we have a bite to eat after the evening meal, or between meals, it is a snack. Unless we are on a cruise, then in the afternoon it is Tea. That is England's greatest addition to culinary world. Maybe Yorkshire Pudding too. We are coming to London and Southampton in October 2023 for a cruise back to the U.S. Looking forward to trying the places mentioned in this stream. Thanks for the tips.

 

Jim

Edited April 19, 2022 by jeh10641
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