I personally love them. Sometimes they are a little pricier (surprisingly), but you usually get a huge plate of fresh food. I usually avoid the more expensive ones (I can't afford them), but I enjoy not having the processed food that you normally get with chain restaurants.
I eat out only about once a week, and when I do, I enjoy getting something local to my town.
How is the local restaurant scene in your area?
We have a local restaurant with regional dishes. Since we are here in the green part of Austria (organic farmers), we of course like to eat Wiener Schnitzel here. Unfortunately, my wife and I have not been able to go out to eat for years, because Ben our Autis cannot eat and sit in the restaurant. What Ben does is eat at Mc D or Burger Kind, we can visit the two of them and have something to eat.
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Mostly chains. Terrible options all around and people are clamoring for more (chains). They don't support the unique restaurants so they never last.
Let me think:
- Lots of Italian restaurants. All the big chains have at least one outlet here (sometimes more), but there are also some lovely independent restaurants.
- Plenty of pubs and bars, if these count. Most other Brits will know these better than I do, though: I'm not much of a 'bar' person
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- Lots of Indian restaurants, most or all of them independents. There's one South Indian restaurant in particular that I'd highly recommend!
- A reasonable number of East Asian restaurants (Chinese, Japanese, Thai etc.). I haven't visited many of these, though my nearest Chinese one is great!
- Only one or two Mexican restaurants. It's just not as popular in the UK, for some reason.
- A smattering of other restaurants (French, Spanish, Turkish etc.). Just a couple of weeks ago, I visited a Lebanese restaurant for the first time. I rather enjoyed it, and I'd go again!
ALL CLOSED IN AUSTRIA! COVID 19
Gastronomy. Is closed. Collection is possible between 6 a.m. and 8 p.m. Delivery services will remain permitted without time restrictions. Pubs, bars and nightspots are also closed (more about the provisions in the catering trade).
main city near me is a capitalist hellscape of chains.
but in my little region of the outskirts, most restaurants are local. personal favourites:
--> arabic bakery (meat/cheese/spinach pies)
--> eggroll place (they do other takeout but they are named after eggrolls and are better than anywhere else i s2g)
--> a bunch of pho houses, some of them serve ox and other more 'exotic' types/cuts of meat
--> a burrito place that does a student discount of two tacos and a drink for like 4$ every day if you bring your school id, very fresh, no taco bell vibes
--> a&w (honorary chain mention, by far freshest burgers and their breakfast is like 8$ for two eggs, toast, sausage, bacon, half a tomato, etc. it feels local compared to mcd's)
most of them are open for pickup at the very least, the eggroll place and arab bakery don't even have a dine-in area so nothing much changed for them.
serve good food at a good price here and you'll have business.
i dont eat out often because i'm too lazy to walk down and ubereats doesnt even work on my phone so i cant order for pickup/delivery. but i'll be almost always more likely to stop at these places than the local mcd's or wendy's or whatever.
(November 1st, 2020 at 8:15 AM)tc4me Wrote: [ -> ]ALL CLOSED IN AUSTRIA! COVID 19
Gastronomy. Is closed. Collection is possible between 6 a.m. and 8 p.m. Delivery services will remain permitted without time restrictions. Pubs, bars and nightspots are also closed (more about the provisions in the catering trade).
Same here, sadly. Ours are closed for a month, except for takeaways.
I just hope I'll be able to have my Christmas meal, as normal.