It looks like we’re not the only ones borrowing things from other countries with the rise of NY style bars, restaurants and food over the past year or so.

Where do you think no reservation policies, sliders, BBQ, prohibition and speakeasy bars have all been coming from?

Now it seems though that our friends across the pond have decided to take a little from our drinking and eating culture but much like the transition of The Office to an American cast and script we just can’t see it working.

For one, instead of choosing the quintessentially British cream tea or Martini bar, or something that is good about our restaurants and bars they have chosen to take for themselves, the gastro pub.

Even more hilarious is the fact that they have decided to call the first gastro pub, open in LA, The Pikey. So popular now is the gastro pub that apparently every other opening claims to be exactly that.

“In 2012 Los Angeles… it is occasionally difficult to find a new restaurant that isn’t a gastropub, where there are at least half a dozen beers bitter enough to choke a Bud Lite aficionado,” writes Jonathan Gold from the LA Times in a review of The Pikey on Sunset Boulevard

So what then have the States taken from our Gastro pubs – the cheap curry deals on a Thursday? The free ladies nights? The shitty fish and chips or pie and mash options for a fiver?

Nope, they’ve really not grasped it.

We have never seen ‘pigs ear’ on the menu in a gastro pub over here though apparently that is a well known UK dish being served up across the pond.

Edit – We are sure that Ralph’s food is lovely. This article was not suggesting his food was not of the highest standard. We were more commenting on many of our gastro pubs over here not having great food at all and therefore being pushed in the USA as a much finer thing that actually we have here.