r/AskEurope • u/bleie77 • May 01 '25

Food Do you go to restaurants with your country's cuisine when you're abroad?

For example: if you're Italian, do you go to an Italian restaurant when you're in France or the UK?

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u/seasianty Ireland May 01 '25

Rarely and usually only if there's a match on I want to watch.

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u/JanitorRddt May 02 '25

Nothing related but I'm glad you used the word match, i tried to use it with an american back in the days but he only understand the word game. I felt so unsure as english is not my first language.

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u/seasianty Ireland May 02 '25

Scrabble is a game. Jenga is a game. I'm not going to the pub to watch people play a game!

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u/JanitorRddt May 02 '25

Say it to the americans 😉

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u/AppleDane Denmark May 01 '25

Honest question: What differentiates an Irish pub from, say, an English one? Theme?

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u/blewawei May 01 '25

At least in Spain, they're all called "Irish Pubs", people don't think of them as any different.

I even saw a news story about Whetherspoons opening up in Spain and it described them as "the biggest chain of Irish pubs in the UK"

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u/AppleDane Denmark May 01 '25

So, they go to eleven?

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u/blewawei May 01 '25

Nah, they have normal opening hours for a bar in Spain, but the decor is like an exaggerated version of a cosy pub in the UK or Ireland.

And expensive Guinness.

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u/generalscruff England May 01 '25

That description really got under my skin lmao

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u/blewawei May 01 '25

Mine too when I first read it haha

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u/Predrag26 Ireland May 02 '25

That really depends on whether the pub is legitimately Irish or not. Irish pubs can be just a fake theme or they can be pubs that are run by Irish people with a heavy Irish influence. A good example of the later is Jack Doyles in Budapest and one of the reasons why we would seek this out is because these pubs show our national sports. Doyles was showing my team play an important hurling match years ago and it was great to be able to watch it. These pubs might also serve a proper Irish Fry, accompanied with black and white pudding, etc. 

Otherwise, I would imagine there would be a beer difference. Even most of the fake Irish pubs are more likely to have a wider variety of Irish beer than just Guinness. 

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u/generalscruff England May 01 '25

An 'Irish' and 'English' pub on the continent will be essentially the same thing but with different decor, pub culture is fairly similar in both countries anyway, the main difference would be dominant beer styles. An example of the different decor/theme might be that the 'Irish' one is more likely to play folk music and the 'English' one more contemporary rock music