where do you prefer to eat?

first world questions

Whiney are you picking up the bill?

NY

big cooked meal at home > good restaurant > so-so restaurant > lazy pasta+sauce type meal at home

"at home" could include delivery/take-out? If so, maybe the question is more "who do you like to cook your food? yourself or someone else?"

Anyway, I voted.

good restaurant>big cooked meal at home>lazy pasta n sauce>so-so restaurant

BUT

bad meal w/ hot chick > sad man in him room eating pasta

oh yeah delivery/take-out complicates things, I think I even prefer so-so delivery/take out to a good restaurant

good restaurant>so-so restaurant>big cooked meal at home this never happens>lazy pasta n sauce>something from 7-11

i voted 'out' cause i feel loyalty to that, but really in yr life you need both is the answer

of course if you had to opo forever eating in is better

and delivery is basically the pinacle of civilization

otm

whenever i get food delivered in london it's pretty much inedible

shocka

seems like there's an extra word in that sentence

much?

My usual disclaimer w/r/t cooking: I am an OK-ish cook and I don't *hate* doing it, but if I'm cooking just for myself, it's just a chore on par with cleaning the bath tub. If I were partnered or had a roommate or something, cooking at home would be enjoyable and second to "good restaurant" on my list of preferences. As things stand, "cooking" for me is assembling stuff that would make Sandra Lee knit her brow.

(although last time i had a boyfriend, our double-income-no-kids led us to eat out just as much as i do now, so maybe i'm fooling myself)

one of the problems i have with eating out is that you don't know who is making your food, and depending on the situation, they might be throwing it together while they are stressed out, frustrated, etc. if i'm eating food at home then i can prepare it myself and put some love into it.

best scenario might be preparing food at home and then taking it to a nice space to eat.

whenever i get food delivered in london it's pretty much inedible

― just sayin, Monday, January 31, 2011 11:24 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

London is the worst for delivery food. I used to get so frustrated when I was feeling lazy and the only places that delivered were shitty pizza places.

Out obv but I have more control over what I eat when I'm at home and can cook for myself so I get anxious if I eat out too frequently.

I generally enjoy cooking and eating my own food and watching TV while I eat but I don't like cleaning up so eating out is preferable based on that alone.

delivery/take out solves tht problem tho

i love restaurants, i love cooking, i love ordering food and having it delivered to me just in time to watch a movie i downloaded, i love eating food

^ why is this not an option

i love the entire dining out xp so much arguing over what place is better where to try making reservations so many possiblities + its so much more relaxing to have a big meal at a restaurant w/ friends no underlying need to impress, maintain a standard even w/ close bros its there

i mean basically a really good lesiurely meal w/ a few friends at a restaurant is one of life's supreme pleasures imo

yes

havent been out to eat since i had my son. 2 1/2 years.

restaurant with friends > home alone > restaurant alone

i mean basically a really good lesiurely meal w/ a few friends at a restaurant is one of life's supreme pleasures imo

so otm

outside chicken

Sometimes at home, sometimes out; sometimes simple, sometimes fancy. There's no one right answer to this question and I wouldn't trust the judgment of anyone who thought there was.

bold

this is a complicated question with a few different interpretations. i'm going to use the "do you prefer food cooked/served in a restaurant or food that you cook/serve at home?" version. i enjoy cooking and i've gotten pretty good at it, so if i have time to do the shopping and i can rope my bf into helping me with the dishes, cooking it is. it's relaxing, challenging, and fun. otoh, there are definitely nights where i would love for someone else to do the heavy lifting.

depends on if there is a full bar

I love the money saving aspect of eating at home (non-delivery, of course). If I had a nice big freezer I would be pretty into once a month cooking (Googling OAMC results in some interesting/inspiring reading). Quotidian cooking is far less appealing.

the only reason i don't eat out much more than i do is £££. the only times eating at home is actively fun is if someone else is cooking or it's delivery (again £££ though). basically i think the driving force of my ambition may be the desire to one day never have to think about cooking.

i mean basically a really good lesiurely meal w/ a few friends at a restaurant is one of life's supreme pleasures imo

― Lamp, Monday, January 31, 2011 8:44 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

kind of, but leisurely cooking w/ a few friends in someone's kitchen tops this

I'm biased right now though because I made waffles at 2am yesterday and am still riding high on that feeling

w/ friends

I have a big family & we take a lot of pride in eating well, so eating at home is way the best. I love eating out in France b/c it's a big commitment, several hours with lots of time conversation between courses; in the USA things usually seem rushed by comparison, or if they're not, I get the feeling families aren't welcome so I don't go. And tbh it's been years since I've lived anywhere in the USA worth going out to.

home

yeah but what's true w/ eating out in france is just as true w/ eating at home in france

True, iatee; maybe that's why I feel so at home there.

Ha, when I went to Paris last month I made sure I had enough time to go... grocery shopping. I always buy a saucisson, cured ham, smoked duck, some nice cheese, fig jam and the most ridiculous convenience food I can find. Last time it was casserole of escargot in its own little clay pot.

London's take-away options are better than they were, but I've mostly nipped my habit in the bud because a late afternoon supermarket sweep rewards the freelance writer with gourmet clearance items or superior-quality chilled pizzas for stupidly small amounts of money. Otherwise, I go through phases: right now I'm cooking lots of West Indian food at home because cold weather is curry and stew season; also roasting poussins (currently ONE POUND at the amazing butcher across the street) with the Dean and Deluca rubs my best friend sent me for Christmas, served with big salads. The phase before was cream cheese brownies, steaks and homemade soup made with yellow cherry plum tomatoes from the farmer's market.

I eat out as much as I can afford but if I don't get to someplace interesting at least once every two weeks, SAD FACE - that's as much about seeing friends as going somewhere new, which is usually either a posh new modern cuisine place or hole-in-the-wall place serving something foreign I don't know how to cook yet.

No "at another person's home," no credibility.

kind of, but leisurely cooking w/ a few friends in someone's kitchen tops this

haha well long conversation filled meals @ someone's home just drinking into the night is def the absolute best but i guess i had that lumped in w/ 'going out'. i can seem better adjusted ppl getting the same enjoyment out of hosting their friends but ive got some primal neurosis abt 'being a good host' which prevents me from ~truly relaxing~ when ive got ppl over...

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