What is a carvery?

ElfsborgAddick said:

When we moved to Bromley Common in 2017 I thought we'd use the carvery there often as had always found it nice.
We hardly used it, it became so popular that the adjacent bar became an overspill for the carvery, the place was dirty, you had to wait so long to get your food.

Try it again. That was seven years ago. I ate there Sunday and it was excellent. Good service, clean and a superb meal. Two or three minutes getting your food, but you would wait much longer than that anywhere.

ElfsborgAddick said:

When we moved to Bromley Common in 2017 I thought we'd use the carvery there often as had always found it nice.
We hardly used it, it became so popular that the adjacent bar became an overspill for the carvery, the place was dirty, you had to wait so long to get your food.

And that’s where you took me and @bl@blackpool72 when we helped you moved house!!!

We used to go to one in I think Chislehurst back in the 80s, all you can eat job but only one visit allowed, some of the plates were stacked so well the blokes should have been civil engineers, never understood how they could transport such a mountain of food safely in one go. 

cafcdave123 said:

Radostanradical said:

When I was a teenager I used to go the carvery in Wrotham road Welling, think it was the Kitchener ? It was dreadful but was like £3.50 midweek but would get it half price because of one of the barmaids, so couldnt knock it really as a skint 18 year old. 

Yeah the Lord Kitchener, they ruined a pub making that a carvery and now it’s a co op and flats

I was too young to remember it purely as a pub i went once or twice for football presentations, but ultimately it must of changed for a reason. I do remember it had a nice balance of being both a pub and carvery to begin with when it was managed by a guy called Mark (I think ??) who was there quite a few years then it changed management quickly a few times and it became poor pub and poor carvery. 

BrentfordAddick said:

We used to go to one in I think Chislehurst back in the 80s, all you can eat job but only one visit allowed, some of the plates were stacked so well the blokes should have been civil engineers, never understood how they could transport such a mountain of food safely in one go. 

ForeverAddickted said:

cafcdave123 said:

Radostanradical said:

cafcdave123 said:

Radostanradical said:

When I was a teenager I used to go the carvery in Wrotham road Welling, think it was the Kitchener ? It was dreadful but was like £3.50 midweek but would get it half price because of one of the barmaids, so couldnt knock it really as a skint 18 year old. 

Yeah the Lord Kitchener, they ruined a pub making that a carvery and now it’s a co op and flats

I was too young to remember it purely as a pub i went once or twice for football presentations, but ultimately it must of changed for a reason. I do remember it had a nice balance of being both a pub and carvery to begin with when it was managed by a guy called Mark (I think ??) who was there quite a few years then it changed management quickly a few times and it became poor pub and poor carvery. 

It had a decent sized function hall at the back where the carvery ended up and the front was two separate bars (small saloon bar on the right at the front)

Having a carvery there was never really going to work and after the initial novelty wore off the place struggled along before being sold to developers 

Has the Lord Kitchener pub gone now then? - Always remembered it from visiting the shops or going to Wrotham Park for a kick about, especially if I couldnt be bothered to walk down to Danson

The building is still there but it’s a co op downstairs and flats above

BrentfordAddick said:

We used to go to one in I think Chislehurst back in the 80s, all you can eat job but only one visit allowed, some of the plates were stacked so well the blokes should have been civil engineers, never understood how they could transport such a mountain of food safely in one go. 

I remember seeing a guy at a Pizza Hut in Hong Kong building a salad in one of those tiny little bowls. He was building it up using slices of cucumber to build a circular wall into which he put all the different ingredients, then he “cemented” everything together using the dressing and then started over with cucumber slices. In the end the salad was about 4 inches across and about 10 high. That really was an engineering feat!

Stuart_the_Red said:

BrentfordAddick said:

We used to go to one in I think Chislehurst back in the 80s, all you can eat job but only one visit allowed, some of the plates were stacked so well the blokes should have been civil engineers, never understood how they could transport such a mountain of food safely in one go. 

I remember seeing a guy at a Pizza Hut in Hong Kong building a salad in one of those tiny little bowls. He was building it up using slices of cucumber to build a circular wall into which he put all the different ingredients, then he “cemented” everything together using the dressing and then started over with cucumber slices. In the end the salad was about 4 inches across and about 10 high. That really was an engineering feat!

It was a thing in China at one stage, 'salad stacking' - a protest/challenge of sorts to the fact Pizza Hut brought in a one visit per person rule on the salad cart.

Then I think it became a case of people trying to outdo each other etc.

If you Google Pizza Hut salad stacking there's some very impressive ones.

seth plum said:

Bedsaddick said:

seth plum said:

The club emailed me today promoting a Father’s Day ‘carvery’.
I don’t know what that even is.

You’re weird

And you are.....?

Do you really need it pointing out?

cafcdave123 said:

seth plum said:

The club emailed me today promoting a Father’s Day ‘carvery’.
I don’t know what that even is.

Would have been quicker to search the word carvery and read your own previous posts…

What triggered you to search for a carvery thread on CL?