Is just appetisers frowned upon?

[Simba and nala]

We went for an awesome meal this weekend - hickory’s smokehouse just outside Stockport , Manchester

We had 3 appetisers to share between myself,mrs and 2 kids 12,10 and all had a mains each we didn’t have room for a desserts


On the ride home as a family we all agreed we would rather have ordered more appetisers and skipped a mains and ordered a dessert

How would this approach sit in Florida ?
We ended up taking home 50% of our mains home we was stuffed

I know I want to make one of our adrs at Sanaa for bread service but thinking on I don’t think a main would be needed leaving room for a sweet fix !


Sorry to edit:
We are not on a DDP and mainly eating evening meal offsite in the many restaurants along 192

[duchy]

Won’t work on the dining plan but paying out of pocket , sure it’s not uncommon.

[BevS97]

Yes. It’s totally fine although as above you can’t do this on the ddp. But if you are paying then you can Order what you want.

Applebee’s do a ‘main’ which is basically choose a number of starters.

[Simba and nala]

Thanks for the reply folks Iv just edited post we are staying offsite will only be doing 3 or 4 adrs all rest will be off site on the 192

[NewtoOrlando]

We often just order apps, both here and in Florida, not frowned upon at all. Some nights I just fancy a bowl of wings and dip, or some loaded fries, rather than a big meal. No one ever questions it. We ate at Sanaa last year (not on DDP) and ordered the bread service, then a main, it was delicious! No sweet stuff as not pudding people but the 2 cocktails were also delicious! Were back in August, again no DDP and Sanaa is one I will hopefully book.

[vampiress88]

Yes!
We did this a bahama breeze when it was happy hour on appitizers and still ordered too much

[HevaDuck]

Quite common in the US to do this very acceptable it's also fine to just have dessert
When my friend lived in the US and I went to visit she often met friends at night for drinks and dessert could have been that none of us earned much money are were always on a budget in those days mind 😉

[Rescuer]

We love doing this. Bahama breeze and NBC Bar and Grill are 2 of our favourite places for this.

[Sandra & co]

Yes we often order appetisers for a main meal, they are tastier than the meal.

[mick]

I've often had Bang Bang Shrimp at Bonefish Grill as a main course but maybe have a side with it. It's shown as an appetiser but a fairly large portion - for a 74 year old anyway.

Not quite the same but we both also often have just the zingers at Millers without even a side.

Just to praise the servers at Millers by the way. When we first went and ordered zingers and fries each we found ourselves struggling a bit so we mentioned it to the server. She suggested sharing one entree in future.

Very few restaurants where servers talk the check and subsequent tip down.

Mick