This seems to be a concept that is lacking in Hungary. There are some British- and Irish-style pubs, but those tend to only have overpriced burgers and there are no places where you can have a Steak and Kidney Pie, a Ploughman's Lunch, Haggis, Welsh Rarebit, or Yorkshire Pudding.
What about your country?
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Not really, I don’t think I’ve ever seen one. There are some Irish pubs, although the peak from the 90s is well behind us now.
Hercule Poirot: “The English they do not have a cuisine, my friend, they have only the food.”
Never seen anything like that when I lived abroad. But I have come across numerous Irish or occasionally Scottish pubs, and some of them do serve British-style food.
And that I think “fits” with British culture and vibes anyway – we’re not a fancy culinary culture… Restaurants aren’t our first language.
I’ve had some excellent British-style food at the Irish pubs in Spain!
Nope sorry. British food is Not very famous Here in Germany. They are Not known for good food around Here.
“The beauty of their women and the taste of their food, made the British the best sailors in the world”
Nobody likes English food….
But pubs are a thing!
Based on my experiences in London, there aren’t even many British restaurants in Britain.
Pubs, with some classic pub food.
Pure restaurants are few to none.
There’s an irish food truck in my area serving fish and chips. And there’s a poorly managed pie shop that will fail any day now.
Tbh the idea of having a British restaurant here made me laugh.
There’s not even British restaurants in Britain!
That of course isn’t entirely true, but in general you get three types of place that serve British food:
Fish and Chips shops (deep fry and batter),
gastropubs (‘hearty meals’ like pies and mash, ploughman’s lunch, burgers etc. generally between £20/cover and £50/cover if you go and order wine, starter and desert as well)
and restaurants that have chosen the British route. Often these are independent and quite progressive, they also frequently offer fusion with other ‘kitchens’ like French or Italian. You get things like venison, various fish dishes and so on and I think they range from about £50/cover to £300 for top of the range ‘famous’ chef places.
The majority of folks go to gastropubs for a meal these days I think, but the nice thing about Britain is that you can find restaurants from all corners of the world.
That’s because apart from the steak and kidney pie (if we’re being generous) none of those items are considered to have much culinary skill or meaningful taste.
Traditional British food is generally simple and not exciting.
It’s the same reason that you don’t tend to see Dutch restaurants outside of the Netherlands much.
I think we have an Irish pub in my city and I remember that there used to be two restaurant which sold British style fish and chips, but I think one of them no longer offers that.
Burger joints in Finland (not Amerikan chains obvs) often serve surprisingly decent fishnchips but it’s not a fetish item.
I’m in Los Angeles not Europe but we have a few of them here with authentic British food.
The Nurburgring in Germany attracts a lot of British tourists and residents, and there is a British themed pub in Adenau which serves up comfort food. Probably not haggis though.
Only in Algarve, I guess? The British aren’t famous for their food.
Well, here in Denmark we have fish and chips in some fast food restaurants/grills… 😬
In Ireland we have a few of the mid to higher end chains operating in Dublin.
As in Hawksmoor, The Ivy, Marco Pierre White, Jamie Oliver, Milano (Pizza Express) etc. probably a few more that are not coming to mind.
In Denmark there are Irish bars, they don’t serve food and I don’t think they resemble anything particularly Irish.. Other than that street food trucks might serve fish and chips and breakfast and brunch items can be similar to an English breakfast
British restaurants in Greece?
It’s like trying to sell dial up in an area when everyone has FTTH…
As a brit the only thing that comes close to British food on my travels has come in the form of ‘the full english breakfasts’ you can find in the likes of Greece and Spain (and the holiday islands). Whilst the settings and ambiance are vastly different, the food is generally spot on.
There are a few British pubs which serve some food, but it’s nothing fancy. Burgers, fish & chips and such. One of them started serving Spanish food.
The only English restaurants I usually find are breakfast places
There is like one in Amsterdam called Wiliams Farmhouse , that’s basically it they’re not common.
There are some here in Berlin apparently, but I never seen one myself
You can get beige tasteless slop out the back of any restaurant after hours
Here in Estonia I think it would not last long. So no I have not seen british food here.
I don’t think we have any, at least in Athens.Purely British, that is. We do have some pubs, but the served food is more adapted to Greeks. Also there are few hotels, that serve tea, the way British tea shops do (with scones, etc). One of them, is Grande Bretagne.
We have English and Irish pubs but not restaurants. At least I’ve never seen one. The UK isn’t really famous for it’s cuisine, tbh.
There is an extremely cute café (or rather tea house) called Little Britain in Vienna, serving varieties of tea, scones, cucumber sandwiches and particularly British pastry, while embracing all the cottage lifestyle aesthetic mixed with iconic London items. There’s also a good number of pubs, which are mostly Irish or indistinct.
Luxembourg has a fish and chip truck that then opened a restaurant. They do Sunday roasts, too (and now Thai, too).
There’s a number of Irish pubs that do the standard British/Irish cuisine.
Why would anyone want to go to a restaurant to eat british food?
Brit Cousine does not have a name in the worl. Only English brekfast served at anny hotel, I gess