What Temp do you Drink your Beer at?

[JnJ]

I like mine at about 55 F.

 

[Whelk]

You guys in the states really have no Idea how bad the food and drink in the UK can be. Don't get me wrong some places really have it right. I love going to London and some out of the way places. But if you ever go to the average pub or restaurants in an average town it is shocking.

Most of the places to eat in Warrington are pubs. Out of maybe 50+ food pubs I can think of 5 that I would visit and most of those are quite expensive.
Out of maybe 20 restaurants then I can think of only a couple I'd revisit. Again they are expensive.

No joking for a meal for 4 with a couple of drinks I could fly to Africa and back and probably pay for the accommodation.
Warrington is the Second Largest town in the UK!!!!!!

Going back to the pub I was talking about, it is a carvery pub. I called in for a quick lunch. I went for the carved beef and turkey baguette with trimmings.
The beef was overcooked and tasteless, the turkey! I had to take off because it was that dry it was drying the moisture up in my mouth. That's when I asked for a half bitter. It took them 10 minutes to serve it. $2.50 for 8oz. It hadn't settled when she left it so it ended up half foam.
No way am I going back. The worst of it is this place is actually one of the better chain pubs in the town.

Some of the food I got in the pubs while I was in university in Oxford was unbelievably bad. But the nicer pubs in the city were great--they really seemed to make an effort to serve beer at the proper temp, and the food was always worth paying for. But those big chain pubs were almost always a waste of money, particularly the big gastro-pubs. Or, even worse, the New Orleans-inspired 'American bar'. Ugh.