It's only bland if your idea of good food is lots of spices.

The incredible umami depth of a beef dripping gravy, the intense burn of an English mustard, or the creamy tang of a good mashed potato with butter and sour cream, sprinkled with crunchy sea-salt. It's not delicate food, but dang it hits the spot sometimes.

Seriously, though. There are Thai, Chinese, Mexican, indian, moroccan, Italian etc restaurants all within a few minutes from me. I've never seen a British restaurant. The closest you get is a UK themed pub, which just serves American bar food plus Guinness.

I think the reason you don't see British restaurants that much in the US isn't that it's bad food, it's that a lot of traditional British dishes have sufficiently close equivalents in "down-home cookin'" American restaurants (as in a roast beef dinner) or in bar food (as in fish and chips) that there isn't much demand for anything more specialized. The full fry-up breakfast is something isn't so easily found here, but near me there's at least one themed pub that does serve one (although it's Irish rather than English).

I think it was just never made restaurant food? You don't really get them in the UK either. A restaurant that doesn't bill itself as x country's cuisine is basically going to be French/in that tradition. Closest you can get is a chip shop or a 'real ales • good food' pub.

Yes, as someone from continental Europe, reading this seems a bit like the one eyed leading the blind, hehe.