25th Aug 09
Discount Vouchers launches printable food vouchers!
by Adam Dunning
I love food. I really do. I dream about it, think about it, and like Homer Simpson, eat like a duck when I consume it.
I live to eat. And like most people, I like going out to the odd restaurant and consume their best. But, in my time eating and eating, and during the very rare occasions that I look up from my plate I see that regarding the establishment I’m in, there is very different clientele about.
And now that we’ve launched some rather wonderful printed vouchers on our site, it was chance for me to print them out, use the phenomenal deals (in the name of research) to check out some phenomenal foodie establishments.
All Bar One
Gammon, Fish Cakes lots of Beer – this sounds like the working men’s club I used to go to. Where are the cockels and welks that go with? Looking round there, with my chips in my mouth, I feel left out. There’s an array of shirts and girls in clothes that are just there, but they’re all drinking! They are missing out, I have to say, they should put down their Bacardi Breezers and buy the food. If you wanna pop out for something after work, in the words of Starsky and Hutch – do it. Do it…
Ask
Oooo – flash based website look at is and you will sed: Pizzas and children. No, that’s not the experimental new dish from the Fat Duck using garlic, dough and delinquent children from South London, it’s the angle that Ask are using to get in the punters. All screaming, cheese and ice cream. It’s definitely a place for people who think certain Pizza places are too chavvy. Not a bad thing.
Café Rouge
Mai Oui. It’s the Café Rouge. How nice it is to have a taste of France in Sheffield? It’s all there, the unhelpful staff, the noir mirrors and the beautiful food (well, if you like French food, that is). But the good thing is the people. You’ve got two groups. Men and women of a certain age who wear jackets with gold on them and smell indiscriminately of lavender who dine there all the time, and the sad ‘just got off holiday bunch’ who want to recapture that holiday magic.
Giraffe
Lovely – food from the world, not in the Gammon and Burgers category, you get some different food from different parts of the world (though thankfully not Giraffe!) I particularly like the idea of a Powerfood Salad. Power to the vegetarians! A place for the family and for mum and dad to take little Chloe and Harry a taste of what they’ll be eating when they go on safari next year.
Henry’s
Wow – those people who made those little vacuum cleaners are now running restaurants? How excellent. More for the ‘no children allowed’ brigade, these lovely places are on the higher end. It’s for people who lived ‘Working Girl’ and casual wear is an open shirt and slacks. Quiet chatter about spreadsheets and objectives, a perfect place to while away the hours.
La Tasca
Finger food alert! Yep, make sure you pack the wet ones, as you’ll be covered in garlic and olive oil within three minutes of getting through the door! Aimed at families, and the garlic lovers amongst us. This place is again for the Café Rouge lot, holiday recapturers who are desperate for those long days where they don’t have to re-send e-mails because there’s no attachment and drinking at 11am is acceptable. I love garlic, so the selection of tip-bits goes down well. Perfect for dating that exotic-looking woman in accounts.
Pizza Express
Tied in with the wonderful orange Wednesdays cinema deal, this phenomenal pizza please consists of two types of people. You have the older generation who is eating their shared pizza, looking forward to the next art house film (they were going to eat at Café Rouge, but the double discount of films and food and it being a Wednesday swung it). Or you get the more *ahem* relaxed generation in their trackie bottoms, over-feeding on cheese and getting excited about the To Fast, To Furious, Two.
Prezzo
Italian food. You can’t go wrong can you? Basil, Tomatoes, Pizza, Pasta. Perfect. Everyone likes Italian food and everyone’s in there. From Kylie’s 21st Birthday, to the office who are saying goodbye to Helen from finance to the old couple who have a voucher and are going out for the first time in two years. A perfect place for eats.
Strada
Think Prezzo but a little bit posher. I ponder, as I eat the ‘award winning’ pizza, do they have as many different chains of British menus in Italy? Do they have: Paul’s, Bacon or Huddersfield chains of restaurants? I don’t think so – but in the UK we have chain upon chain of wonderful Italian places, with wonderful food. This posher than normal place has wonderful pizzas and pasta and you’ll see managers and directors taking their clients out to lunch.
Zizzi
Last, and my no means least, another great and more accessible Italian restaurant. With families and sixth formers taking pictures of each other and posting it to our FB and Twitter accounts. Great food, reasonably prices – as they said in Twin Peaks.
Have you found any others in your travels around the web? Let us know what’s out there and we’ll put you on the blog – fame at last!
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