You may be able to cook a reasonable pasta dish, but you don't therefore see yourself as rival to Gordon Ramsay or Nigella Lawson.
Keep to the tapas end of the menu and you can eat really well for a very reasonable amount; dishes such as falafel and crispy potatoes with harissa start at £2.95, while larger tapas – warm chorizo and king prawn salad, piquillo peppers stuffed with tuna aioli – come in at £4.95.
A lunchtime soup and sandwich combo (£6.95) is one of several "deals" on offer, although the brasserie menu proper starts at a reasonable £8.95 for dishes like sausage and "creamed potato" and moules mariniere.
Takahashi-ya, a two-minute walk from the station, offers filling dishes at reasonable prices.
Eat The Sonne is a rustic place with Swiss and Italian dishes at reasonable prices.
The Riverview, an Italian restaurant just a few blocks north of Main, serves brick-oven pizza and other dishes at reasonable prices.
Shiraz, the restaurant, sits on a charmless stretch of River Road in Edgewater that bears little resemblance to its namesake, but offers excellent versions of traditional Persian and Afghan dishes at reasonable prices.
Prices are reasonable – €16 for a main dish such as beef stew or chicken – and everything is home-cooked.
The prices, so often a reasonable guide to where a dish should sit in a meal, rise and fall like waves on a stormy sea: from £9.50 then up to £16.50, back down to £10.75 then up to £21.75.
This should be a shallow, preferably plastic dish of a reasonable length and width, as long as the toad fits in it with plenty of room to move.
