Help! Sheffield restaurant recommendations needed - now please!

[Paul B]

Ah, we were wondering about that. Thanks for the tip Bubb's!

For Nat's birthday we went to Artisan. TBH given the hype I was a bit disappointed, nice setting, really well presented food but a bit lacking in substance. I'd pick Thyme Cafe every time instead.

 

[Fiend]

Mmmmmm, pie.

 

[tommytwotone]

Got taken out by my ladyfriend thumbsup to Cubana on Trippet Lane over the weekend - very tasty tapas-y stuff, and very agreeable Chilean Cab Sauv that wasn't too expensive as well!

Was very impressed with the service - we rocked up on spec on Saturday night at about half seven, they initially said they hadn't got a table but managed to squeeze us in.

 

[dave]

Got taken out by my ladyfriend thumbsup

very tasty

tapass

service

sounds like a winner

 

[Bubba]

Just to add about Pie Night at Silversmiths - book in advance. They are very busy after the Ramsay program and could only squeeze us in after Selina turned on her professional pursuasion tactics.

 

[hairich]

the guys who own silversmiths took some of thier pies into the mrs office for all to taste. i tried the venison it was fantastic

 

[Jaspersharpe]

Ramsey saved their ass. They were seriously up bankruptcy creek before he turned up. Must try those pies.......

 

[Houdini]

Ramsay's a slag of all modern media. He could turn up w/ TV crew at Shazz's mobile greasyspoon [A14 southbound] and her takings would quadruple w/ no change to either the quality of produce, cleanliness of her squalid caravan (come-trucker knocking shop) or the viciousness of the shit-gurgling gut-aches her double egg and deepfried jumbo sausage baps are known to induce across swathes of the S. East, thanks no doubt to the inability of the UK TV viewing publics' inability to distinguish one dirty cunt from another...

Ramsay! Pffft.

 

[Bubba]

Did you watch the program? The quality of food rocketed. I think Ramsay is a tool but he knows his business that's for sure.

The other restaurant in the same program continued to struggle because the thick owner wouldn't change his ways.

 

[Houdini]

Did you watch the program?

Er, no, I'm not a UK resident. Excuse me, just trolling, Ramsay makes my blood boil. I concede, he knows a lot a about making money and getting the best (and worst) out of people.

 

[dave]

The other restaurant in the same program continued to struggle because the thick owner wouldn't change his ways.

it always amazes me these people agree to be on that type of programme and then outright refuse to take any of the advice given. Its like those greedy clowns you see on property ladder, they declare they're in it to make some serious fast wedge, they wheel in that big titted bird to give them some sound advice, they alway ignore it any then when they end up making £500 profit for 9 months hardgraft, and that was only cos the market went up, because they ignored every single piece of advice given they say "well we weren't really in it for the money". fucking idiots. you can tell this is my first day back at work can't you.

 

[slackline]

Did you watch the program?

Er, no, I'm not a UK resident. Excuse me, just trolling, Ramsay makes my blood boil. I concede, he knows a lot a about making money and getting the best (and worse) out of people.

But your posts over recent months suggest you have been working here of late so it was possible (albeit unlikely given your opinion) that you might have watched them.

The other restaurant in the same program continued to struggle because the thick owner wouldn't change his ways.

it always amazes me these people agree to be on that type of programme and then outright refuse to take any of the advice given.

I'm not that amazed myself, I'd imagine they believe that there is no such thing as bad publicity and by simply having their place on a show with a celebrity chef they will gain the exposure they need to save their ailing business. Unfortunately they're often too short-sighted to see past the end of their nose and realise that its they who are the problem.

 

[Jaspersharpe]

Did you watch the program? The quality of food rocketed. I think Ramsay is a tool but he knows his business that's for sure.

The other restaurant in the same program continued to struggle because the thick owner wouldn't change his ways.

Yeah the Sheffield owner was completely clueless and was running the restaurant into the ground with a combination of shit food and a totally confused venue. There's only so much that the publicity that the programme affords can do for a place. If they hadn't completely changed according to Ramsey's direction then they would have had a couple of weeks of busy nights and then everyone would have fucked off somewhere else again when they realised it was shit. As has happened at plenty of the other places he's been to.

You're right dave. It's these cunts who wont listen who are the tools. Ramsey can be a wanker but he knows his shit.

The US version of his show is fucking hilarious.

 

[tommytwotone]

You're right dave. It's these cunts who wont listen who are the tools. Ramsey can be a wanker but he knows his shit.

...but it wouldn't be great TV for this great modern age if there wasn't any conflict in it!

Can you imagine if the people involved actually listened to the 'experts'? I'd be a pretty short programme...

OPENING MONTAGE (incl. Gordon stripping off for no apparent reason)

Lots of eye-rolling from La Ramsay about how shit the place is, then cut to:

Gordon: For fuck's sake you useless cunts, you need to simplify you menu / use local produce / get the running of the place organised. Now show me your balls, show me you've got some balls and get hold of your balls and do it...

Restauranteur: Oh, good point Gordon, I'll get right on it.

LE FIN

 

[slackline]

You're right dave. It's these cunts who wont listen who are the tools. Ramsey can be a wanker but he knows his shit.

...but it wouldn't be great TV for this great modern age if there wasn't any conflict in it!

Can you imagine if the people involved actually listened to the 'experts'? I'd be a pretty short programme...

OPENING MONTAGE (incl. Gordon stripping off for no apparent reason)

Lots of eye-rolling from La Ramsay about how shit the place is, then cut to:

Gordon: For fuck's sake you useless cunts, you need to simplify you menu / use local produce / get the running of the place organised. Now show me your balls, show me you've got some balls and get hold of your balls and do it...

Restauranteur: Oh, good point Gordon, I'll get right on it.

LE FIN

Sounds good to me, then it can all be over in five minutes freeing up air time for something half-decent (a la Red Riding, which I recorded but didn't watch last night)

 

[magpie]

OPENING MONTAGE (incl. Gordon stripping off for no apparent reason)

There's a reason. 8)

 

[tommytwotone]

Jeepers Maggers, make up your mind...

I thought you were into squeezing boho hippy climbing wads, or have you forsaken Sir Chris of Sharma after your recent experiences?

I don't think you'll get far stalking chunky jock chefs who can't keep their shirts on and like talking about other mens' balls a bit too much, though from what I've seen in the red tops... :whistle:

 

[magpie]

It doesn't pay to have a set , that only limits you

But yes, Chris and I are finished, I don't think we can ever go back to how things were. :'( :thumbsdown:

 

[Falling Down]

I went to one of Ramsay's restaruants in London just before Christmas and it really sucked. Terrible service & mediocre food... Judging by the reports in the financial press I'm not the only one to have noticed and maybe Gordon should've been concentrating on keeping his own house in order rather than swanning around on the world on C4/ITV's expense and hectoring other people on their own shortcomings (and knobbing women who he's not married to). I've no doubt that he knows his onions but I wouldn't be surprised to see bankruptcy and a humiliating 'I overstretched myself' series in the tabloids come this time next year..

 

[Jaspersharpe]

He may fold some of the restaurants but I can't see him being daft enough to end up bankrupt. Mind you, his father in law is in charge of a lot of his financial empire so you never know................