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Your Favourite Restaurant in Sligo
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Reporting back from the Silver Apple!!
Atmosphere: 2.5/5
I don't know if the booths/decor scheme fits this particular restaurant, knotty pine booths don't really scream "Fine French Cuisine". However, I like to sit in booths because they're comfortable, so I didn't mind too much. The exposed stone, on the other hand, is lovely.
Some of the songs they had playing were a bit on the cheesy side (think French accordian music - kind of like when you go to a North American Irish style pub and they're playing deedlyeye music) but most of it wasn't bad.
The floor bounces when the waitress walks past, which can be a bit annoying.
Overall, these things wouldn't bother me in another restaurant, but when you're going for high quality food, you expect the atmosphere to match.
Service: 5/5
The waitress was extremely friendly and helpful. She didn't rush us at all, we took our time and had a nice, leisurely meal. Best service we've had in Sligo, by an absolute longshot. Food arrival was prompt, of course we were the first to arrive (at 6pm) so the chef didn't have too many orders to contend with.
Food: 4/5
The menu selection is a good mix - there are pasta dishes, pork, beef, lamb, chicken, seafood. There is a "catch of the day" and a "daily special" - today's were a shellfish trio and lamb liver. The soup was NOT vegetable! It was French Onion. There are also many starters, deserts and wines. Also, there is what looks to be an excellent kid's section.
Mr Xiney and I dined on the following:
Caesar Salad (Shared Starter) - close to perfect! Would have liked a wedge of lemon on the side, but that's personal preference. The dressing was very nice. Good size - quite enough to share. Nice large shreds of a good quality parmesean, and four nice strips of some kind of smoked meat that I forget the name of! (Tasty stuff though)
Mr Xiney's Main: 10 Oz. Sirloin Steak with mushroom duxelle and fries. Sauce au Poivre. He actually didn't get the mushroom duxelle because he doesn't like mushrooms
The fries were frozen shoestring, but they were fresh out of the fryer which makes up for that. Mr Xiney reports that his steak was tender, juicy, and with an average size rind (which he personally does not care for but expected all the same). He enjoyed it but his preference is actually for thicker, chargrilled steaks - which is not the French way of course!
Xiney's Main: Braised Pork Belly with champ and spiced apple sauce. Very nice, found the pork belly a bit fatty but I've never had pork belly before so maybe that's the name of the game. Interesting enough anyway, and all that fat makes for a very tender piece of meat. Good portion of champ, which was lovely. The winner here was the spiced apple sauce, which was really fantastic.
We also had a plate of veggies (jullienned beets, jullienned carrots and broccoli) on the side - again, very nice. Mr Xiney remarked that it was the nicest broccoli he'd ever tasted in his life, I remarked that I agreed but it was probably cooked in plenty of butter and I wasn't about to start preparing it that way!!
Wine: They have a good selection. We're not big drinkers so we went for their house recommended half bottle of red - Argentina. If the rest of their wine list's descriptions are as accurate as their description of this one, I'm impressed. It actually was a very nice bottle of wine, and at 11 euro you can't really go wrong. We're not connoisseurs, but we did enjoy it.
Desert: We shared a creme brulee, which is kind of my thing... if I'm having desert and there's a creme brulee available (which often determines whether I'm having desert or not!) I'll generally go for it. This one was beautiful. I don't know if it's because it's been about 10 months since I've had creme brulee or what, but it really hit the spot. There was a lovely thick crust on it and the creme was still cold, which means they did it right with a blow torch and not under the broiler. Probably could have had one each (they're small) but we were feeling like little piggies anyway after indulging so much!
Also, the coffee was from illy and came with a square of dark chocolate
Altogether, a truly relaxing, completely enjoyable experience. Will go again! (But not too soon, I feel like a fatted calf)0 -
Holy hell.. very thorough and thought out review Xiney.
Not a huge Caesar salad fan.. just doesn't satisfy me. Salads for me need to be loaded high with plenty of "non-traditional salad" elements like ham or chicken. But in saying that, I am partial to a Caesar Salad but wouldn't particularly know what would be considered a "good" Caesar Salad as I tend to just inhale salad.. and only comment afterwards as to whether it filled me or not, and that I'm ready for the main course!
Not a big pork fan so can't really comment on yours. I always find pork fatty.. I'll have pork chops but that's where I draw the line.
But Mr Xiney's steak sounded nice but shoestring chips are unforgiveable in my books nowadays.
The wine can be quite important with a meal.. and you got an 11 euro bottle of wine? That was very good.. probably wasn't more than buying it in Tesco. Last time I was out in the Mandarin Court they cheapest bottle was 20 euro. But remember going was a lovely Pinot Grigio around the 22 - 25 euro mark. Really does compliment the meal.
As for dessert, Creme Brulee (NOW YOU'RE TALKING!).. my favourite dessert but you really to try the one in Coach Lane. Someone can probably elaborate on this but the one in Coach Lane is a Rhubard & something Creme Brulee but it absolutely delicious.
Illy is indeed the best coffee available.. but a bit on the pricey side for about 6 euro for a 300g tin in Tesco. Might see if I can order it cheaper online in bulk.0 -
Xiney, What a great report! (No, I wasn't very sad and waited up for your reply.....:o)
Sounded rather nice and I might just go right now and tell Mr tulip about it. Did you happen to notice if there was chocolate mousse in the desserts?
I might even just go along to check out how child friendly they are - for research purposes of course.....
I think that's how the reports should look in the "sticky" When are you going to Lemongrass?0 -
The wine prices were very reasonable - but I would like to again point out that that was for the half bottle. The full bottles were around 20 euro and up, if I remember correctly. Great prices.
Entrees were mainly just under 20 euro with a couple just over.
Starters were from 4.50 to 9 or 10 euro, if I remember correctly...
Deserts were mainly around the 6.50 euro mark. Sorry Tulip, I saw "Creme Brulee" at the top of the list and stopped reading
. 'Squille, I'll have to take on board your recommendation of the Coach Lane Creme Brulee, I think I was simply far too stuffed when I went there to even consider desert. Also I think I may have been concerned at the price of the bottle of wine we ordered there. It will be a while before we go anyway, expensive place! Have to start thinking up an excuse now (After I come up with one for the Lemongrass, that is...) 0 -
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Thistle here .... that was tulip above...can you see the difference in typing technique?
Has anybody eaten in the Sinergie restaurant and Kudos bar at Clarion Hotel? If so what did you think of it? Just checked out the menus on Hotel website - looks good!0 -
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On the riverfront down from the embassy/toffs , is it part of whats called the riverbank pub lads? Went in there today to try it but they didnt start til 5pm but going to check it out soon. Thanks for the tip off or is that whats called the "heads up".
Still not sure where it is!?? Is it where the Riverside hotel was? 0 -
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