What is Sheffield lacking in terms of eating out?

[BarryRiley 10]

BBQ place like the ones they have on Man V's Food. Not something that just turns up with some bbq sauce on.

 

Bit bbq pit in the place where the meat is cooked in front of you.

 

Meat that is slow bbq over 24 hours etc

 

Big Food - massive burgers, massive steaks etc

 

Ok i know we are in state of obesity but you dont have to eat it every day

 

This.....?

[discodown 11]

Sheffield lacks an awful lot in the restaurant business. However what it doesn't lack are the chains they are everywhere.

 

Heres what i'd do if I had the money to open a place.

 

We're in the middle of some of the finest farming land in the uk aren't we? Yet nobody takes pride in that or exploits it. So open your restaurant and as you come in theres a big map of the region, in the middle it shows Sheffield where we are. Then highlighted on the map would be the farms where you source your pork, your beef, your lamb, your chicken, your milk and anything else. Get as much as you can locally and then cook it well.

 

On the menu which you would rotate at least 3 times a year you would have no more than 6 starters, 6 mains and 6 desserts and a specials board. Simply cooked, delicious, food. No foams, emulsions, jus, jellies, espumas, fireworks or anything pretentious just well cooked, delightful food that is described properly and accurately on the menu for a reasonable and fair price.

 

A wine list that specialises in british wine and british ale for reasonable prices. We would let people bring their own for a moderate corkage charge.

 

A real fire in winter.

 

Somewhere for the smokers when its warm.

 

Friendly attentive service without overcrowding people.

 

Don't try to copy anywhere else, don't worry about what anyone else is doing.

 

Do all this and people will flock.

Edited August 31, 2012 by discodown

[RosyRat 10]

Sheffield lacks an awful lot in the restaurant business. However what it doesn't lack are the chains they are everywhere.

 

Heres what i'd do if I had the money to open a place.

 

We're in the middle of some of the finest farming land in the uk aren't we? Yet nobody takes pride in that or exploits it. So open your restaurant and as you come in theres a big map of the region, in the middle it shows Sheffield where we are. Then highlighted on the map would be the farms where you source your pork, your beef, your lamb, your chicken, your milk and anything else. Get as much as you can locally and then cook it well.

 

On the menu which you would rotate at least 3 times a year you would have no more than 6 starters, 6 mains and 6 desserts and a specials board. Simply cooked, delicious, food. No foams, emulsions, jus, jellies, espumas, fireworks or anything pretentious just well cooked, delightful food that is described properly and accurately on the menu for a reasonable and fair price.

 

A wine list that specialises in british wine and british ale for reasonable prices. We would let people bring their own for a moderate corkage charge.

 

A real fire in winter.

 

Somewhere for the smokers when its warm.

 

Friendly attentive service without overcrowding people.

 

Don't try to copy anywhere else, don't worry about what anyone else is doing.

 

Do all this and people will flock.

 

What a great idea. Visiting Suffolk last month we called into the Leaping Hare, a restaurant based in the Wyken Vineyard near Bury St Edmunds. Lovely wine from their own vineyards, good food locally sourced from Suffolk and Cambridge farms, simple, beautifully presented dishes using fresh ingredients and a quintessentially English setting. There's a big, deep room with tables covered in white tablecloths, a fire in winter and a courtyard for summer dining (and smokers I presume) and absolutely no pretentiousness. Early lunch midweek and we managed to get the last table in the courtyard, the dining room being full.

My omelette was made from free range eggs and Suffolk blue cheese and simply accompanied with rocket and parmesan shavings. The bread was home made & the butter a deep yellow. The white wine was chilled and left on our table, with no hovering and filling up of glasses. There was no piped music and no badly behaved children running around. I can't remember when I've enjoyed a meal more.

It shows what can be done with a down-to earth approach to food production & cooking & attention to the customer. I wish very much we had this sort of thing in Sheffield and you're right, we have the makings of a fabulous restaurant right on our doorstep.

Edited September 3, 2012 by RosyRat

[Goooooogle 10]

Having lived in the Alps, the thing that I've always wished Sheffield had was a fondue restaurant.

 

These places serve cheese fondues, meat fondues, and occasionally proper wood fired pizzas. The smell of wood smoke as you near these places is so inticing, and the rustic wooden decor they often have is so very homely.

 

The very best fondue places in the Alps are on the hills with spectacular views. Sheffield is obviously one of the few cities in the UK with such an opportunity, having so many hills. Places like Dore, Bradfield, Owler Bar, Ringinglow, Rivelin or Loxley would be great.

 

I've no idea where the Sheffield Cheese Company is (they haven't produced any cheese yet, either), but I'd like to think that they could make Emmenthal and Gruyere style cheeses and open up one of these place in Sheffield's hills.

 

I genuinely think that it'd be a fantastic destination restaurant for the region.

 

Cafe ceres (http://www.cafeceres.com/) is currently relocating onto hunters bar roundabout and the owner did say he would be introducing some dishes from his birthplace including raclette , fondue and a hot stone thing where you cook your own meat on the table.

[Goooooogle 10]

On holidays to Italy and Spain , we have found some great pastry/cake shops which the UK seems not able to emulate in quite the same way and Sheffield certainly has nothing like them.

 

They were always busy early with locals getting a coffee and a pastry on the way to work (so open early) , then did small sarnies on quality bread at lunch and carried on with cakes and ice creams all day.

 

Plus they mostly had a licence so late afternoon they transformed into after work drinks places (they were all quite classily decorated so were nice places to be).

 

They stayed open late too...

 

And they were great value , none of this £ 2.50 for a rubbish coffee nonsense you get over here.

 

£ 1 for an espresso , £ 1.50 for a small but perfectly sized cappuccino. £ 1 to £ 2 for pastries.

 

Somewhere like this in a well to do area would go down a storm.

You will have to make your own cakes & pastries though to do it properly so not sure how easy it is going to be....

[Vrsaljko 209]

Is there anywhere in town that does individual slices of pizza to take away?

[Eckolad 10]

greggs do pizza slices..........

 

 

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[Vrsaljko 209]

greggs do pizza slices

 

I'll give their 'food' a miss thanks.

[Benedictine 10]

Sheffield lacks an awful lot in the restaurant business. However what it doesn't lack are the chains they are everywhere.

 

Heres what i'd do if I had the money to open a place.

 

We're in the middle of some of the finest farming land in the uk aren't we? Yet nobody takes pride in that or exploits it. So open your restaurant and as you come in theres a big map of the region, in the middle it shows Sheffield where we are. Then highlighted on the map would be the farms where you source your pork, your beef, your lamb, your chicken, your milk and anything else. Get as much as you can locally and then cook it well.

 

On the menu which you would rotate at least 3 times a year you would have no more than 6 starters, 6 mains and 6 desserts and a specials board. Simply cooked, delicious, food. No foams, emulsions, jus, jellies, espumas, fireworks or anything pretentious just well cooked, delightful food that is described properly and accurately on the menu for a reasonable and fair price.

 

A wine list that specialises in british wine and british ale for reasonable prices. We would let people bring their own for a moderate corkage charge.

 

A real fire in winter.

 

Somewhere for the smokers when its warm.

 

Friendly attentive service without overcrowding people.

 

Don't try to copy anywhere else, don't worry about what anyone else is doing.

 

Do all this and people will flock.

 

Yes that would have my vote. What about Silversmiths isn't that supposed to be local and the like, I've never been and it has had some poor reviews of late?

[Cyclone 10]

On holidays to Italy and Spain , we have found some great pastry/cake shops which the UK seems not able to emulate in quite the same way and Sheffield certainly has nothing like them.

You've tried 'Fancie' then on Ecclesall Road?

 

They were always busy early with locals getting a coffee and a pastry on the way to work (so open early) , then did small sarnies on quality bread at lunch and carried on with cakes and ice creams all day.

 

Plus they mostly had a licence so late afternoon they transformed into after work drinks places (they were all quite classily decorated so were nice places to be).

 

They stayed open late too...

 

And they were great value , none of this £ 2.50 for a rubbish coffee nonsense you get over here.

 

£ 1 for an espresso , £ 1.50 for a small but perfectly sized cappuccino. £ 1 to £ 2 for pastries.

 

Somewhere like this in a well to do area would go down a storm.

You will have to make your own cakes & pastries though to do it properly so not sure how easy it is going to be....

 

Hold on, are they cake shops, sandwich shops, coffee shops or bars? From the sound of it they lead a quadruple life. Whilst also managing to sell coffee at prices fractionally lower than the 'rubbish coffee' you get over here.

[dacrlit 18]

I would like to see a breakfast place that serves different types of breakfast including stuff like Lava Bread, like you wrote above.

[KEF5 10]

Something a bit more interesting than the usual standard options.

 

Ethiopian or Korean would be nice.