Do You Eat at Restaurants With Picture Menus?

September 11, 2008

30 Comments

Wild Magelet, I was at a restaurant in Auckland last night that has pictures on the menu. They serve Vietnamese food and my friends and I just memorise the number that we usually get. I love the pictures because the food tastes even better than you can imagine...YUM!

puddlesworth 4 years 36 weeks

Yeah. You dont have to read the name and wonder what it is, you just point to what looks good and say "I want that one" lol just kidding

seraphimm 4 years 36 weeks

A few run-down places do this, but so do really fancy restaurants that people only have to guess what they're ordering... so I really appreciate it though, for example... I just fell in love with Indian food, but have NO idea what each item is called... so if they have pictures, I'll be so excited and eager to point at the picture instead of describing what it looks like (I can just imagine it now..."what KIND of curry miss?") like an idiot :)

seraphimm 4 years 36 weeks

A few run-down places do this,but so do really fancy restaurants that people only have to guess what they're ordering... soI really appreciate it though,for example...I just fell in love with Indian food, but have NO idea what each item is called...so if they have pictures, I'll be so excited and eager to point at the picture instead of describing what it looks like (I can just imagine it now..."what KIND of curry miss?") like an idiot :)

ayuninur 4 years 36 weeks

yea sure..why not?!

ayuninur 4 years 36 weeks

yea sure..why not?!

Super_stargirl 4 years 36 weeks

I don't know if its a bad thing, but i'm so influenced by the pictures in menus that 90% of my orders in restaurants are dishes that have pictures!

Wild Magelet 4 years 36 weeks

Although I guess it could be helpful! :) As long as what you get actually looks like the photograph, and it isn't a case of magazine food photography where everything is sprayed with paint gloss and stuff.

fuzzles 4 years 36 weeks

There is a wonderful, authentic Mom and Pop Thai place in my area that does this. I don't mind and, actually, appreciate it. Some of the food is unfamiliar to me, and the appearance of the food helps me decide what to order.

Wild Magelet 4 years 36 weeks

Apart from fast food places, I'm not sure I've ever seen or heard of a restaurant in New Zealand that puts pictures on the menu.

Marci 4 years 36 weeks

The picture menus usually scare me. The food never looks good, for some reason.

AmberHoney 4 years 36 weeks

Of course, I'm married to a photographer! :)

soapbox 4 years 36 weeks

The only place I've been to that does this was this tiny gelato shop in Hamburg, Germany. And their pictures were high quality and looked like something out of a commercial. Since I'm not totally fluent in German, the pictures helped a lot. Oh and the gelato looked just as good!

Soniabonya 4 years 36 weeks

Of course I'd eat there. It helped quite a bit when traveling through Europe. Some menus weren't in english (in the small towns of some countries) but they had picture menus and it helped us decide if and what to eat. though most cities and towns now carry english menus to serve tourists. yay! Though I do go by description more, and if i am confused on an ingredient, I just ask the waiter. One thing that ticked me off though was that not all foods in the dish were listed in menus. Sometimes we get meals that didn't add "nuts hidden in sauce". What if I were allergic to nuts?? It wouldn't be fun finding those hidden jewels in my meal. That's not just in Europe though, sometimes here too! Whoops way off topic. ^_^

Soniabonya 4 years 36 weeks

ilanac13 4 years 36 weeks

i don't necessarily think that pictures on the menu will turn me off - but it's not something that i search for. i think that most of the foods i order are easy to figure out since they are non-meat/chicken/fish dishes..but for some people who don't know exactly what something is - i think that it couldn't hurt. my fiance and i used to go to this diner in FL and well - they have LOTs of pictures and it was interesting - since they always warn you that pictures are suggestive and not necessarily representative of what you're going to get.

ilanac13 4 years 36 weeks

milosmommy 4 years 36 weeks

I would and have. The Thai place I love to go to near work has pictures. I find it helpful because I wouldn't know what it was just by the name sometimes.

verily 4 years 36 weeks

I don't make a conscientious decision about it by any means. Usually, it's the mom and pop places that do this. And yes, they sometimes take the worst possible pictures of their food, but I'll still order it if it sounds good.

Pallas Athena 4 years 36 weeks

There should be a sometimes I do and sometimes I don't choice. I do eat a restaurants with picture menus, but sometimes I don't. It all depends on the food and place.