Cunard Pub Lunch Food at The Golden Lion (Queen Mary 2)

[@patrickmalone1902]

Chicken tikka masala looked really nice.

[@TravelTouristVideos]

That was done right! 😋 Thanks for the comment! 🙂

[@jmleigh3]

The fish and chips looked amazing!

[@TravelTouristVideos]

Yeah those were the best fish & chips we've tasted on a cruise for sure! 😋

[@paulconnors2078]

I liked the looks of the Steak and Ale Pie of the Day and the Fish and Chips.

[@TravelTouristVideos]

Yes those were two of the best! 😋

[@DenaInWyo]

I'll definitely be hanging out here quite a bit! Sticky toffee pudding is called that only because "pudding" in the UK mostly just means dessert...of any kind. "How can you have your pudding if you don't eat your meat?!" ;) It's a super moist cake made from dates and containing treacle (which is super similar to molasses..you may have seen a treacle tart at tea), the covered in a toffee sauce.

[@TravelTouristVideos]

Thanks for the info on pudding & treacle- we didn't exactly know what they were but tasted good lol 😁

[@kathydolan5745]

I detest peas! I could tell by your face, you feel the same way. Thanks for taking one for the team!

[@TravelTouristVideos]

Lol it was difficult but someone's gotta do it J/K 😁 Thanks for the comment! 😊

[@angelaherring5443]

Hello Joann and David! Another great video!

[@TravelTouristVideos]

Hi Angela! Thank you so much for watching & commenting as always! 😊

[@danabe3220]

I have fish and chips at the Golden Lion often every time I do the crossings. Excellent reviews of their wide assortment.

[@brodieellis2545]

Good you gave peas a chance! Love your vlogs!

[@TravelTouristVideos]

Gotta try the peas 😁 Glad you enjoy the videos- thank you so much! 😊

[@Al........]

Mushy peas are a staple in a British "Chippy", not for everyone but if you are going for the authentic British way of eating your fish and chips ditch the lemon and tartar sauce and add brown malt vinegar and salt.... the lemon and tartar sauce are still ok though.

[@truth4004]

I like it all lol

[@TravelTouristVideos]

Yes! We also also saw malt vinegar and didn't realize trying the fish with it until too late- should've included it in the video. Thanks so much for the comment! 🙂

[@irenedavo3768]

Not many chips!

[@jonlincoln6069]

@@irenedavo3768 reminds me of a Wetherspoons portion

[@scotland638]

Need to add curry sauce as well.

[@iloveanimals1964]

The sticky toffee needed either cream or ice cream 🫶😉

[@TravelTouristVideos]

Yeah- sounds like they'd go well with it!

[@jlawrence0181]

Another great video. I would like to head out n a Cunard cruise ...

[@TravelTouristVideos]

Thank you so much! 😊 You should definitely try out Cunard!

[@dianacarragher5845]

I always have fish & Chips when i visit the Golden Lion on the whole the food is good and a change from the Lido or Britannia dining room.

[@TravelTouristVideos]

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[@Kimbaface]

It's so nice to see it's just 1 piece of fish. There are so many eating opportunities on these trips, I want to eat lesser portions more often! (And I don't love peas either.)

[@bobkrakovich1851]

Hi Joann and David, I love fish and chips and that looked yummy. The beef pie of the day was the first I've seen of something like that. I agree with Joann, I'm not a pea aficionado but maybe mashed like that with some spices??? Thanks as always. Hi from Bob and Jill in Connecticut

[@TravelTouristVideos]

Hi Bob & Jill- thanks so much for the comment! 😊 That was the best fish & chips we've tried at sea for sure 😋. The mushy peas were interesting- it was nice to find out that's suppose to go with the fish & chips. Yeah that beef pie was unique & pretty tasty- it reminded of beef & ale stew so I just named it that.

[@vniesky]

Love her reviews

[@TravelTouristVideos]

Thank you! 😊

[@iampaulzy]

Sigh, on my Qn. Elizabeth cruise last June I missed out eating fish & chips in the pub because I kept forgetting (I went to the pool grill twice). When I did go to the pub, it was always after lunch was over or at night. Poo!!

[@TravelTouristVideos]

Hopefully next time you'd get to try it!

[@kathyvelasquez3682]

Mushy peas..saw the hard swallow. I would not even attempt..as I have no sense of smell or taste..the texture alone would have been enough of a determent. Lol. Love your vlogs.

[@TravelTouristVideos]

Lol thank you so much! 😊 Yeah it's interesting how that had "mushy" in the name, but that's accurate (& traditional) I suppose.

[@益-s4p]

My friend had flown on the Cunard Queen Victoria before. He told me that Cunard’s food choices are less than those on other large cruise ships. There are only three free restaurants to choose from in the cabins.

[@TravelTouristVideos]

They don’t have a ton of choices but the food quality is some of the best we’ve experienced among all the different cruise lines we sailed with.

[@wkng4295]

tks for showing the food you had on board ( i have watched a couple of your videos on QM2). the food was better looking and many choices compared to some of the cruises i had done in southeast asia... judging from your videos , there were no below average / bad food on board ...... not at all ????? there were bad ones on my previous trips. am thinking of joining QM2 early next year...... and sure want to test it out..

[@TravelTouristVideos]

Actually there were a few that were kind of iffy and we decided not to show a tasting of those. 😁 But in general the food was very good on the level of Holland America & Celebrity cruises.

[@maddy01010]

Oh sticky toffee pudding is so yummie! I think it always is like cake. First time i had it threw me off too. But its so good.

[@TravelTouristVideos]

Yes! Dangerous good 😋

[@suzanneobrien5279]

As a Brit I wouldn't even consider fish and chips without mushy peas (when we go to the chip shop I always get extra 😋)....but well done for having a go if you don't like peas 👍 We tend to use the word 'pudding' interchangeably with dessert - I believe in the US pudding is more like a blancmange? But when I was young a pudding was usually a flour/suet type cake which was steamed. It could contain jam (roly poly) or currants (spotted dick) and was very stodgy and served with hot custard 🔥

[@truth4004]

Pudding in the US is like thick custard.

[@TravelTouristVideos]

That great to know- we always love to hear what the traditional way of how certain dishes are. Yeah in the US pudding is usually is a more gelatinous, custard-like dessert. Thank you so much for your comment! 😊

[@suzanneobrien5279]

@@bnice2all oh I'm happy it sparked some lovely memories for you 😊 Those biscuits sound like custard creams ...still a fave in our house today 💕

[@robertallardice8119]

Do you eat every dish in one sitting?

[@darploin5071]

Let you in a little secret when you see the word pudding on a British ocean liner it just is a generic word for dessert it's not as precise as the Americans would use to work for an actual type of dessert so when you see the word pudding in England or on English liner it uses just means dessert

[@gingernightmare9152]

I will have the Chicken Tikka Masala with Onion Bajas, Mango Chutney, Onion Salad, Poppadum and Naan. Lovely. 🐟🐠

[@TravelTouristVideos]

Excellent choices 😋

[@dianehosler2552]

The steak and ale pie is my fave then the fish and chips and mushy peas but throw away the tartar sauce!!!

[@darploin5071]

Out of curiosity the fish and chips what is the green stuff on the plate that wasabi or guacamole? Have an excellent day. l do love your videos

[@TravelTouristVideos]

Thank you so much! 😊 That was "mushy peas" 🙂

[@antsimpson5128]

Stella on tap??? That's the cruise for me!

[@TravelTouristVideos]

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[@georgeguansing5131]

All the food spread are A plus except some of the confectionaries.👍👌

[@SquidandCatAdventures]

Tbh, that looks way better than O'Sheehan's food on NCL. Certainly the selection of Brit pub dishes appeals to me more. I would say that I'd be most drawn to the meat pie and the curry.

[@TravelTouristVideos]

Yes- I would have to say the quality was a little better on the Cunard. O'Sheehans actually wasn't all that great in the past but it seems to gotten quite a bit better. Thanks for the comment! 🙂

[@kamma44]

Damn that girl can eat?!

[@TravelTouristVideos]

Those were actually shared by the 3 of us, but yeah a lot of food for sure 🙂

[@TheMartinezpepe]

Table for 2 please. :)

[@TravelTouristVideos]

Yes! 😋

[@marinacarmenmartinez6829]

👍👏

[@TravelTouristVideos]

🙏😊

[@debraslamka4585]

I cringed when you tried the peas, I don't like peas or mint. Thank you for trying it.

[@TravelTouristVideos]

No problem! 😁 Thanks for the comment! 😊

[@stevearno100]

Years ago when you ordered fish and chips . The cod portion was an entire fillet and the chips were about 2.5 kilo . ( 1 portion of chips used to feed a family of 5 ) I don't mind they are have reduced the portion of cod to 1/2 or a 3rd the size . But I hate the scattering of chips to create surface area . It looks miserable...it should be a pile of chips to create "over flowing " or stacked I'm not a fan of mushy peas but that's how the North of England... done it . Pies I love - it was always steak and kidney growing up . The Indian looks OK- it is just pub food ...its most certainly not a good representation of what Indian restaurants in the UK bang out . The British dishes look more on par with a wetherspoons pub ( cheap chain ) , Than a luxury liner , they should really be doing better . Since Cunard is meant to be the top tier of cruising Being British- its a little bit embarrassing looking at those meals - they look "low-end " pub meals , rather than what you can get - for the sake of 20p's worth of chips they would rather create miserable looking

[@TravelTouristVideos]

Thanks- appreciate a Brit's take. As for the portions, one nice thing here is that you can order as much as you can eat.

[@voodooguy2]

The fish batter is not dark enough and the chips are not even remotely close to proper chippy chips. I'll let the 'minted' mushy peas slide as Cunard is obviously trying to be posh. AND DON'T GET ME STARTED ON THE ANEMIC-LOOKING CRUMBLE - it looked like it had come out of the oven 15 minutes too early. The cauliflower pie and the curry looked standard pub fare. Oh, and the sticky toffee pudding looked authentic.

[@michaelvoisey8458]

Hire the guitar player for your background music and give the mad jazz band a rest

[@anjir.1105]

I just had the fish and chips this past week on the Queen Elizabeth. My husband had the fish and chips and the fries were lukewarm, fish OK. I had a burger and asked for it Med Rare. I was told they were all well done because they were “pre-cooked”. Biggest disappointment and a perfect way to ruin a hamburger… might as well have been Whataburger ( even THAT would have tasted better), fries were awful. I have to say the food was the biggest disappointment on Cunard, and I heard sooo many good reviews. I have traveled on Princess, Royal C, Holland A, Norwegian and Celebrity (our favorite) and never been gone for almost 2 weeks and NOT had a meal to rave about. Main dining had lots of fancy descriptions for every course but most often items were bland especially the soups. The closest we came to a lobster was lobster bisque which tasted like weak tomato soup w tiny bits of shrimp. Sad, sad, sad. I can understand one or two meals bing bland but most along w pastries just a huge disappointment. I will say the scones and clotted cream and jam at afternoon tea were excellent…but an ice cream machine in the lido I guess was better than none…sorry to be a Debbie downer but I wish I’d read this review before I went. I will say service was excellent, library the best I’ve seen on a big ship, and the bear excursion phenomenal--also getting in so close at Glacier Bay and Hubbard was the bomb. Definitely happy I had a balcony. Happy Cruisin!

[@TravelTouristVideos]

Thank you for sharing your experience on the QE! Lukewarm fries and bland mdr dishes- sorry to hear that the food didn't live up to expectations. I'm surprised that they didn't have lobster night? Glad to hear you had an amazing Alaska cruise though- breathtaking sceneries for sure!

[@romeo9017]

Those arent Cunard dishes….

[@TravelTouristVideos]

Not sure what you're referring to- the food or plates? If it's the food, are they much different vs the when you went?

[@rexbourne7635]

Yes they are Cunard Golden Lion dishes served on the Queen Mary! Ann Biurne

[@observant1856]

Pretty ordinart looking fare for the price people pay to cruise

[@MrAcook61798]

How greedy !!

[@FeckArseIndustries]

Are they children's portions. The ploughman's lunch? Never seen anything like it. Minted mushy peas - an aberration, not one single fish and chip shop in the UK would serve that. Only in gastro pubs and faux high end restaurants trying to be 'cheffy' would ruin basic, simple mushy peas.

[@cmcmahon8551]

Good to know, I like peas, don't like mint. I was wondering if the mint was normal. Thanks for the knowledge!

[@gogreen7794]

As an American, I don't know the difference and I wouldn't eat the peas anyway.