If you were to travel back in time a few decades and visit a restaurant, you’d be wowed by how much the dishes have changed. From fish swimming in cream to duck à l'orange and flambéed crêpes Suzette, these dated dishes have fallen out of fashion, disappearing from all but the most old-school of restaurants. Here we rank our retro favourites, counting down to the best of all.

Click or scroll through the gallery to see our ranking of the much-missed dishes that you rarely see on menus these days.

We've based our ranking on the popularity, and prevalence on menus, of the dishes at the time, and on the opinions of our well-travelled (and well-fed) team. This list is unavoidably subjective.

Much-missed vintage restaurant dishes that should return, ranked