Carvery

A carvery is a restaurant where cooked meat is freshly sliced to order for customers, sometimes offering unlimited servings for a fixed price. The term is most commonly used in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

Carveries are often found in pubs and hotels, and are particularly commonly held at weekends, when they offer traditional Sunday Roasts to a potentially very large number of people. The meat is usually accompanied by a choice of potatoes (generally at least boiled, mashed and roasted) and other vegetables (commonly including carrots, cauliflower and other traditional British vegetables), with gravy and a sauce considered a traditional accompaniment to the various meats (for example, mint sauce to accompany roast lamb, apple sauce to accompany roast pork and so on).

They were first operated by pub chains such as Harvesters, Brewer's Fayre and Beefeater, while the Toby Carvery brand (owned by Mitchells & Butlers) has recently emerged as a market leader, taking over many former Beefeater sites. Carveries are also commonly offered by many local pubs.