FabSwingers.com forum: What is the first restaurant in Britain you remember going to

By *usman 199 OP Man
39 weeks ago

Stockport

Happy Mondays everyone

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By *ittlemiss Hal O weenCouple
39 weeks ago

Southampton

I dunno if it was the first but I do remember going to a happy eater as a kid and getting a cap lol

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By (user no longer on site)
39 weeks ago

The one in town by the old police station, I remember eating breadsticks and having water with sliced lemon in it. Do you know the place?

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By (user no longer on site)
39 weeks ago

McDonald’s

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By *ife NinjaMan
39 weeks ago

Dunfermline

Wimpy

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By *mokes n MirrorsCouple
39 weeks ago

Plymouth and Newcastle (sometimes)

Wimpy with the round hotdog sausage.

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By *obilebottomMan
39 weeks ago

All over

Le Gavroche

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By *allySlinkyWoman
39 weeks ago

Leeds

Wimpy for me too. Upstairs in the Arndale Centre.

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By *layfullsamMan
39 weeks ago

Solihull

Might have been golden egg restaurant on a holiday road trip

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By *rHotNottsMan
39 weeks ago

Dubai & Nottingham

A place called Mavericks, very similar to Wimpy but with a cowboy theme going on….

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By *ust want fun 888Man
39 weeks ago

nearby

Mine is, the wimpy we only went there as a treat and it’s a very fond memory

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By (user no longer on site)
39 weeks ago

Wimpy in Brighton

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By *uvery30Woman
39 weeks ago

Gloucestershire

Charlie chalk and they had a soft play there as well. Remember a massive Swan could sit on haha

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By *inkyycurvyyWoman
39 weeks ago

Manchester

McDonald's in Stretford Arndale as a kid, went to plenty of birthday parties in McDonald's which then progressed to pizza hut as we got older

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By (user no longer on site)
39 weeks ago

First "proper" restaurant? The one at the Midland Hotel in Manchester.

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By *lderflower_AppleWoman
39 weeks ago

Basingstoke

I remember we went to visit my great aunt and uncle who lived in Cambridgeshire and we went to a pub. It was the first time I'd been to a pub with my parents, and I think I was maybe 6 or 7 years old. The reason I remember it so distinctly was because I had fish and chips and they put out a fish knife for me to use. I was astounded and absolutely enchanted by it. I'd never seen such a thing before. And I don't think I've ever been given one to use in a restaurant ever again!

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
39 weeks ago

East Sussex

Downstairs at Bobby's department store. My mum used to take me when I was really little they had catwalk models showing clothes and I was enraptured

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By *eroLondonMan
39 weeks ago

Covent Garden

Beefeater. It was carnivorously mågíçal!...•°*

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By *usman 199 OP Man
39 weeks ago

Stockport

"I remember we went to visit my great aunt and uncle who lived in Cambridgeshire and we went to a pub. It was the first time I'd been to a pub with my parents, and I think I was maybe 6 or 7 years old. The reason I remember it so distinctly was because I had fish and chips and they put out a fish knife for me to use. I was astounded and absolutely enchanted by it. I'd never seen such a thing before. And I don't think I've ever been given one to use in a restaurant ever again!"
nostalgic fish knife . Forgot about them

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By *arkus1812Man
39 weeks ago

Lifes departure lounge NN9 Northamptonshire East not West MidlandsMidlands

Bernie Inns circa late 1950's

Later to become the Whitbread Beefeater Inns circa mid 1990's

Regular user of both

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By (user no longer on site)
39 weeks ago

Aberdeen angus in london

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By (user no longer on site)
39 weeks ago

Wimpy

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By *ob Carpe DiemMan
39 weeks ago

Torquay

Anne's pantry in Ramsgate I think, Easter time and it had snowed heavily, don't really remember the occasion or my age come to that

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By (user no longer on site)
39 weeks ago

Probably a Wimpy. Or a Little Chef.

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By *rofessor ElementalMan
39 weeks ago

Durham

Beefeater Steak House

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By *aizyWoman
39 weeks ago

west midlands

Another one for Wimpy, I used to love going to Wimpy!

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By *otSoPoshWoman
39 weeks ago

In a ball gown because that's how we roll in N. Devon

The French restaurant in the village. It was really good, and we went there every couple of weeks until I was 6, my sister was born and she wouldn't sleep through an evening out.

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By *ad NannaWoman
39 weeks ago

East London

My dad took me and my two elder sister to a Chinese restaurant in Sheerness when I was about 8.

I still remember how beautiful the bbq ribs tasted.

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By *ellhungvweMan
39 weeks ago

Cheltenham

"Another one for Wimpy, I used to love going to Wimpy!"

I reckon mine was probably a wimpy as well.

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By *BWLOVER1965Man
39 weeks ago

My Own Little World

Amazingly it was it France

McDonald’s French police could see I was hungry

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By *utterfly64Woman
39 weeks ago

Raynes Park

As a child we occasionally went to a pizza place - not Hut, not Express but cannot remember what it was! You got jacket potato and com slaw if memory proves me right!

My first McDonalds was in Canada at the age of 18

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By *entleman JayMan
39 weeks ago

Wakefield

Used to like the Berni Inn, on Boar Lane Leeds.

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By (user no longer on site)
39 weeks ago

Pollen street social... First restaurant i went to where your bag gets it's own table/chair!

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By (user no longer on site)
39 weeks ago

The café in BHS

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By *ocksareoffMan
39 weeks ago

Out n About

Can't remember the first but do remember Wimpy and Maccies as a youngster in the 80s

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By (user no longer on site)
39 weeks ago

Nutters. We have the chefs menu. And Andrew Nutter served one of the dishes.

And the fish dish is by far one of the best meals I’ve ever eaten.

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By (user no longer on site)
39 weeks ago

"Nutters. We have the chefs menu. And Andrew Nutter served one of the dishes.

And the fish dish is by far one of the best meals I’ve ever eaten.

Have you been to Six but Nico?

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By *entfella1981Man
39 weeks ago

Maidstone

Parkers Restaurant

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By (user no longer on site)
39 weeks ago

"Nutters. We have the chefs menu. And Andrew Nutter served one of the dishes.

And the fish dish is by far one of the best meals I’ve ever eaten.

Have you been to Six but Nico? "

Yes.

I went to their Circus menu.

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By (user no longer on site)
39 weeks ago

"Nutters. We have the chefs menu. And Andrew Nutter served one of the dishes.

And the fish dish is by far one of the best meals I’ve ever eaten.

Have you been to Six but Nico?

Yes.

I went to their Circus menu.

Was it good?? Would you recommend it?

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By (user no longer on site)
39 weeks ago

"Nutters. We have the chefs menu. And Andrew Nutter served one of the dishes.

And the fish dish is by far one of the best meals I’ve ever eaten.

Have you been to Six but Nico?

Yes.

I went to their Circus menu.

Was it good?? Would you recommend it? "

Hell yes!!! and pair the wine with the dishes. It’s a no brainer.

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By (user no longer on site)
39 weeks ago

"Nutters. We have the chefs menu. And Andrew Nutter served one of the dishes.

And the fish dish is by far one of the best meals I’ve ever eaten.

Have you been to Six but Nico?

Yes.

I went to their Circus menu.

Was it good?? Would you recommend it?

Hell yes!!! and pair the wine with the dishes. It’s a no brainer.

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By *aramel.desiresMan
39 weeks ago

Heathrow

Every Saturday morning (late 70s) I would go food shopping in Brixton with my god parents. I would get a can of Pepsi in the cafe at the back of the Market.

Otherwise McDonald's Clapham Junction.

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By *pinningfasterWoman
39 weeks ago

Birmingham

Harry Ramsdens

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By *eeling0880Man
39 weeks ago

Pennines

"Le Gavroche"

Feck off lol

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By (user no longer on site)
39 weeks ago

Pizza Hut..

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By *rReyMan
39 weeks ago

Fleet

Either Harry Ramsdens at Guiseley, (now the Wetherby Whaler) or Little Chef at Mirfield (Now a Starbucks).

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By *ornycougaWoman
39 weeks ago

NORWAY Wherever I lay my hat

OMG I don't know. I do remember Little Chefs and always ordering one of those pancakes with cherries and ice-cream. They were the bomb

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By *ormalfornorfolkMan
39 weeks ago

Norwich

It may have been the Rising Sun in Erith. Could also have been a wimpy.

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By *eroLondonMan
39 weeks ago

Covent Garden

"OMG I don't know. I do remember Little Chefs and always ordering one of those pancakes with cherries and ice-cream. They were the bomb"

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I think you're reminiscing about "Jubilee Pancakes". I'm certain'ish that's what they were called!

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By *olfandtazCouple
39 weeks ago

Bristol

A beefeater with my family, I think I was around 6 yrs old at the time

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By (user no longer on site)
39 weeks ago

Steers Steakhouse next to the Odeon cinema in Worthing. Mid 1970s.

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By *ornycougaWoman
39 weeks ago

NORWAY Wherever I lay my hat

"OMG I don't know. I do remember Little Chefs and always ordering one of those pancakes with cherries and ice-cream. They were the bomb

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I think you're reminiscing about "Jubilee Pancakes". I'm certain'ish that's what they were called!

Yaas.4am or 6pm I was all over that deliciousness

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By *rill PhilMan
39 weeks ago

Crediton

Dose Little Chef count?

If not... probably the now nonexistent and long forgotten 'Pizzaland'

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By *ittleRed18Woman
39 weeks ago

Aberdeen

I'm another Wimpy vote! I remember it being a treat and my granny would always let me "help" finish her knickerbocker glory!

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By (user no longer on site)
39 weeks ago

The first ever restaurant in the UK I remember going to was in early 2000s. It was a hotel restaurant inside a Radisson Blue hotel. There was a wine cellar encased in glass with a lady who danced up and down in some harness contraption grabbing wine bottles that were being ordered. I also remember what I ate that night.

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By (user no longer on site)
39 weeks ago

I answered this last night, I misunderstood the question.

(I thought you meant the first restaurant you think of)

Beefeaters has got to be the very first restaurant I went to, I can’t remember ordering anything, but I’m in a pineapple before that.

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By *veragejoe99Man
39 weeks ago

Sheppey

Wimpy

We used to got there on a Friday lunchtime at my primary school

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