Tennerfest

[tonytheprof]

Some interesting stuff on BBC Radio Jersey reporting on the Tennerfest with two opposite points of view - the Adelphi saying that "Tennerfest means a tenner" and providing a meal at that cost - saying it is a service, and has low profit margins, but any chef worth his salt should be able to cost a menu for £10 - and another restaurant saying that with inflation, it would not be that now anyway, but more like £12.50-£15.00

I think it's quite right the cost has gone up - after all, it is some years now since it was £10 - and what I tend to do is to look at prices on the general menu and go by the comparative costs. For example:

If they are around £5-8 (or more) for a starter, £15-£20 for a main couse, £5 for a desert, then £15.00 for 3 courses (perhaps with coffee as well) is good value.

If the general cost is lower at £7-£10 for a main course, £3 for a desert (like some of the pubs), then £15 would probably be too high for me, and in fact, most pubs with those prices (like Les Fontaines) do a £10 menu.

So I don't think the range of prices is that unfair (although I do balk at £17.50), but something needs to be done seriously about the name. Octoberfest sounds as if its aping the German Oktoberfest.

Maybe "Tenafest, with the blurb - "The famous Channel Island Tenafest, in the Tenth Month of Each Year"?

[Dylan]

Went to an Italian with wifey recently, she had the tennerfest and I had a starter and plain main course. two bottles of peroni and one glass of house red (between us!). my main course was fowl and I nearly needed coronary surgery when the bill came!
Yep you've guessed it! £76.00

Somewhere else not to return to!

[tonytheprof]

Of course the Tennerfest only applies to food, and as anyone who does accounts or runs restaurants knows, the profit margin on drinks is quite a lot higher!

Watch for the dodge that some used to do, which was to add the drink to the bill and include it in the 10% service charge (which should only be levied on the food).

[GeeGee]

Dylan - was it chicken, turkey, guinea fowl or just plain bloody awfoul?!

There are a couple of places that consistently offer good value year after year and we tend to use them every year because they do not scrimp on quality or quantity, and are worth supporting. On principle we will not go near those who cherry pick the days and times their Tfest menu is available.

The concept is good, just stay away from those eateries who do not really enter into the spirit of it.

[ole razzy]

Went to an Italian with wifey recently

Tell us where! Or at least which street its on.

[Fritz]

The original, "Tennerfest", was a good idea. It got chefs/establishments into some sort of competition to see who could produce the best menu for a ,"Tenner".

Once it became, "£10, £12.50, £15, £17.50, FEST". It lost its appeal.

No point in going to a , "Tennerfest", establishment, if you are going to end up paying what you would be paying in any eatery anyway.

The original , "Tennerfest", encouraged folk to eat out during the week, (When you couldn,t be arsed washing-up etc), but once the, "Tennerfest", bills started to match the, "Night Out", it was always going to take a dive.

[shaun the sheep]

The original , "Tennerfest", encouraged folk to eat out during the week, (When you couldn,t be arsed washing-up etc), but once the, "Tennerfest", bills started to match the, "Night Out", it was always going to take a dive



Well said summed-up Fritz

[moot]

You have to stick to a plan to benefit. The wife and I go midweek each week and stick to those restaurants offering 3 courses for £10 or £12
We have one glass of wine each and have coffee when we get home. I don't mind driving as I will be within the limit at the end of the meal
Les Fontaines was good. So was Touros in Grenville street. I hear the Goose on Green is good value so we continue our Tennerfest tour

[Chevalier Blanc]

Try Murry's at St.Aubin. £10 3 course and very good indeed. Even got the internet in there.

[ageofaquarius]

Try Murry's at St.Aubin. £10 3 course and very good indeed. Even got the internet in there.

Yes, food  is ok, buy at wine £3.75 a glass, you would be better served at the Tenby or Old  Court house

[man in the street]

to do it for a tenner , these days, gst on food ,wages , rents  and a host of spiraling"life enriching jersey" costs. must be all most be impossible.
 i gave up on the "15 quid fest" ages ago.
 even to cook a surf and turf at home, bag of prawns and a good bit of fillet steak, is close to £25.00.
 not including wine , £7.00? for something that will not make you pull a face.

[Chevalier Blanc]

Went to the Tenby last week and the person i was with used to teach cooking and hotel management, so when the manger of the Tenby saw this person he came over had a chat and when the meal came ( 3 course ) it was piled up on the plate and really well presented. I took a look around at other peoples meals and they looked just as good but a little less.
I had Moules, steak and ale pie and ice cream. Price £10 meal and wine (bottle) £8. 5 people total £58. The one problem i found was that so many people there it was very hard to hear what was being said around my table.

[Dylan]

Tell us where! Or at least which street its on.

Sorry! I've been in St Malo checking out the Rum for the route du Rhum festival, at the same time lavishing myself and my beautiful wife in St Servan at the L'Artre restaurant to some extremely fine dining (Comes close to "La Bourge" in the Dordogne for France's best restaurant) IMO, at rates less than charged at the restaurant I tennerfested for a fleecing.

Raz man it's not a million miles from west park, don't have the partridge because of the following:

• The bones are likely to be broken after the chef has drop kicked it around the kitchen to de-frost it because he had a hangover and forgot to get it out the freezer( mine certainly must have been)
  The "Lights" (lungs) had not been removed before hanging which gives the meat a very bitter taste, Partridge should be slightly gamey, succulant and almost sweet. I know because we used to rear the b£ggers copiously in East Anglia  for shooting.
  As the Chef realised that something was not quite right, he must have over-cooked the bird as it was as tough as old boots, what my Granpa would have called a "dunlop" bird.
  Worth kicking off and ruining my wife's evening? No. Because I do believe that if they continue like that then their business will not get any better. I for one will not be bothering to go back to find out. BTW I didn't even have a pudding or coffee!
  

[Dylan]

I think the "tennerfest" should be disbanded. Instead of a showcase of how cheaply restaurants can rip folk off and let the CB's of the world do their Jay Raynor stuff for under a poney, why not call it the "Monkeyfest"
This way, Sparty, Razz and I could pay £500 each, get bloated, with a gourmet meal and all the other sods could stare through the window at what they couldn't afford?

Advertising? 'nuff said.

[ole razzy]

If the three of us went out for a gourmet meal there would be no window space left through which the clamering public could witness such a spectical! Would be obscured by a heady mixture of distended livers, flatulent buttocks and swollen members. Hogarth would have had a field day!