The Little Chef story goes on. One of their (many) problems was it's lack of consistency which is pointed up on the comments on this article...http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6232425.stm
― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Friday, 5 January 2007 14:13 (eighteen years ago)
― reverto levidensis (blueski), Friday, 5 January 2007 14:15 (eighteen years ago)
We went in and ordered an Omelette.
LC: "We can't do Omelette, the suppliers didn't ship us any".Us: "You have eggs though"LC: "Yes, but we haven't any omelettes"
(Basically, they put them in the michaelwave, zap, that's it. Thanks, chef)
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 5 January 2007 14:18 (eighteen years ago)
― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Friday, 5 January 2007 14:41 (eighteen years ago)
― i am not a nugget (stevie), Friday, 5 January 2007 17:21 (eighteen years ago)
a) all but empty, apart from a couple of teenage goths, a very fat woman and her pal in what looked like a wig, and a bored-looking couple next to us. oh, and a dude sitting by the bogs eating a baked potato. BAKED POTATO? ponce. it's a little chef. have something fried. (mädchen: "if it's deep-fried, at least you know it's properly cooked.)
b) not cheap. two quid shy of 50 smackers for four olypmic breakfasts, eight teas, four pancakes and stet's "extra hash browns" (in a little bowl).
c) surprisingly tasty, although the pancakes (freshly made!) were thicker than breezeblocks and none of us could finish them. (stet: "aw fuck, it's got cherries in it. i hate cherries." everyone else: "WHY ORDER A CHERRY PANCAKE, THEN, YOU TIT?")
mädchen did find something dubious attached to her egg, and my sausage tasted, just for a second, of cigarette ash. but ... well, i've had worse.
i've had substantially better, though.
i can't quite put my finger on what's wrong with the place. whoever pointed out that the only papers you can buy are richard bloody desmond's might well have summed it up. that's just morally corrupt.
then we went to aberfoyle and made our own impromptu pub quiz, much to the consternation of the pub's owners. attempts to involve alext by phone were unsuccessful.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 6 January 2007 20:20 (eighteen years ago)
― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Saturday, 6 January 2007 21:40 (eighteen years ago)
wish we'd thought to take pictures. the only one i think we've got is of an old chip van in aberfoyle. for sale, too. hmmm. a career change beckons ...
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 6 January 2007 21:56 (eighteen years ago)
http://www.roadsidefans.com/late40s1.jpg
― m coleman (lovebug starski), Saturday, 6 January 2007 22:22 (eighteen years ago)
― m coleman (lovebug starski), Saturday, 6 January 2007 22:25 (eighteen years ago)
Asking around I've found a surprising amount of love out there for the LC, but it mostly comes from people who don't actually eat in them.
― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Thursday, 11 January 2007 10:46 (eighteen years ago)
i'd like to go the truck cafe at Alconbury on the A1, but somehow have never been
― Storefront Church (688), Thursday, 11 January 2007 10:54 (eighteen years ago)
― === temporary username === (Mark C), Thursday, 11 January 2007 12:32 (eighteen years ago)
― Treblekicker (treblekicker), Thursday, 11 January 2007 14:29 (eighteen years ago)
― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 11 January 2007 14:38 (eighteen years ago)
http://www.seaswirlofmystic.com/images/ss_clamroll.jpg
― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 11 January 2007 15:24 (eighteen years ago)
With many Little Chef's closed or up for sale have any of their replacements caught your attention. Is there anywhere worth eating in on the British road system?
― Ned Trifle II, Wednesday, 21 November 2007 11:02 (seventeen years ago)
worth?
no.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 21 November 2007 11:16 (seventeen years ago)
Mark's talking crap, £9.50 for reheated burger and chips is a bargain.
― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 21 November 2007 11:28 (seventeen years ago)
Revive!
Which is what Heston Blumenthal is hoping to do for Little Chef.http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2008/nov/27/heston-blumenthal-little-chef
― Holden McGroin (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 28 November 2008 11:23 (sixteen years ago)
Here's the menu...http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Guardian/documents/2008/11/28/Little_Chef_Blumenthal_temporary_menu.pdf
― Holden McGroin (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 28 November 2008 11:32 (sixteen years ago)
The All New Ol ympic Breakfast £6.95Served all dayTwo Little Chef outdoor-bred British pork sausages,two rashers of Wiltshire-cured back bacon, two griddledfree-range eggs, a slice of Ramsay of Carluke black pudding,a roasted field mushroom served with either Heinz bakedbeans or a char-grilled tomato. A slice of toasted bloomerbread and butter.
― Holden McGroin (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 28 November 2008 11:33 (sixteen years ago)
Ramsay of Carluke!
(I thought this might have been an in-joke but on Googling the firm exists!)
― Brother Belcher (Marcello Carlin), Friday, 28 November 2008 13:48 (sixteen years ago)