I'd forgotten the odd 'fish tea' in Plummers, (Debenhams) in Hastings! Shopping with my mum sometimes finished there!
Half-decent pub lunches started - for me - around 1966, when I went to work in Ashford, so the trend was a couple of halves of beer, a ploughmans and/or a pasty, and then back to work by 2.00pm!
Luckily, the day job much later entailed a lot of business entertaining, so a wine bar like Davey's or Balls Bros was a good place for such events, but up to then, as a family I can only remember one dinner we went to (except weddings, etc.,) and that was because the owners were something to do with dad's work...
I guess having mums who were pretty good at cooking meant more than spending hard-earned cash in a restaurant - and wine was hardly ever mentioned as well!