Drogheda Restaurant Reviews

fashinmad

[Hi its my daughters birthday next week and her favourite food is Chicken Korma with nice rice.. I was gonna book the new Indian in Trinty Street but they have had a flood on their premises and will be closed for a few weeks. So, can anyone please tell me where to treat my daughter for her birthday to the nicest Korma?:rolleyes:

positron

fashinmad, I don't have restaurant recommendation for you, but Chicken Korma is my favorite Indian dish as well, and I usually make it at home myself (cheaper too, which is good...). I use Lloyd Grossman Korma sauce (see them in Dunnes usually, more recently in Lidl too) - stir fry chicken breast cubes for a few minutes till they are sealed all around, throw in a half-inch piece of ginger finely chopped, a few spring onions chopped, and one or two large mild red chillis for flavour, and let it stir fry for another minutes and then throw in a jar of Lloyd Grossman curry sause - enjoy with equal amount of rice!

Vegetarians can replace chicken with Tofu (Dunnes does nice tofu, cut it into even smaller cubes, and leave it to fry a little longer in slow heat - till the cubes are golden brown all over). To make the curry more substantial, you can also throw in a small can of chickpeas.

fashinmad

I would usually make it at home myself too but since its her birthday I think a restaurant would be a nicer treat! But thanks:)

Quality

What about Indus? I haven't heard a bad thing about it yet!!

Beside Staffords in bryanstown.

fashinmad

yeah I have seen ads in the local paper for it might give it a whirl! Since im new to this site, can you answer me this.. Under the icon for adverts.ie there are personals.. I cant seem to access this, is says i dont have access to this page.. any idea why?

positron

Quality wrote: »

What about Indus? I haven't heard a bad thing about it yet!!

Beside Staffords in bryanstown.

Try post #2 of this thread!

But that's just my own opinion, it might have improved since...!

Quality

positron wrote: »

Try post #2 of this thread!

But that's just my own opinion, it might have improved since...!

Well I am getting take away from there tonight... First time trying it!!!

Will let you know what i think in the morning... Unless it kick starts the labour...:D

WindmillWarrior

I got a take out from Indus shortly after it opened and I thought it was top notch. Not as hot as it should have been but still very tasty. Actually, what would be the hottest Indian in Drogheda? I suppose you can ask them to make it hotter if you want yourself, but I have to say I always find the Punjabi House on the Dublin Road to be the hottest.

One thing Drogheda should have though is a good seafood restaurant. Awful shame there isn't one, especially with there being such a strong fishing tradition in the local area.

Also I have to mention the chicken curry in the Golden Bowl chinese take away in Hardmans Gardens. Best and tastiest curry ever. Has to be gotten with chips. Its so damn tasty, especially after a few pints!

Quality

Indus take away...

We got a jalfrezzi and a vindaloo.. Found the vindaloo very hot!!! Fairly uncomfortable eating eat... (we shared..

Jalfrezzi was delish... Naan Bread was really good as well.

avicbebaldemelt

went to romanza dyer st drogheda on saturday night.
easily the worst meal of the year. we were placed in the left room looking into the kitchen on crappy mis matching wooden tables.
six of us there four had prawns to start which were probably frozen and drowned in oil, garlic and not at all like you get on holidays!
four had pizza which we all left behind undercooked and tatseless-pizza how do you get that wrong!long live the pizzeria.cold foreign staff(one nice donegal lass)def a place for women and inexpensive but won`t be back.

fairlyfiery

As it was my Birthday my friends decided to take me for dinner(as you do). We had a fab night in Romanza on Dyer st. Drogheda
There were 8 of us and it was a Saturday night the place was jammed as people were coming and going. We were greeted at the door by a very nice waitress and we followed on to the bar where we started with the best cocktails I have ever tasted in this town, I had a Mojito with havana club 25yr reserva and it had berries also topped with champagne although it was 18euro(i think) it was YUM!!!
Off we went to the garden as our table was almost ready, which is the cutest and most romantic smoking garden I have come across in the Louth area , nicely lit by candels and we still could listen to the music from the Piano area.
We were sat away from the piano near the kitchen on the couches(soo comfy) and as usual we had the works!!
Fab starters, I had the parwns in garlic, oil and chilli and i had to ask for more bread to soak it up coz it was YUM!!
We had steaks, pizza, fish and pasta and all round were happy taste buds
At that stage we were on the vino, red-1865 from chilli(couldn't believe it was only €36 and tasted soo good!!) and also drinking my favourite Prosecco!!
I had the 10oz Medium-rare(cooked perfectly where most places over cook it) in a nice pepper sauce. Although i was envious of one of the girls as she had the sizziling fish grill......it looked , sizziled and smelt divine!!
Everyone was happy out!!
Everything is homemade even down to the ice cream. 10 out of 10 for these guys!! well done...i thought i had to go else where(not Drogheda) for tasty food whlie combining some class and style.
I'll defo be back again with another gang!!

Dingatron

Romanza. <cynical mode=on>Anyone actually been there that can give impartial view? <cynical mode=off/> :pac:

Irjudge1

Dingatron wrote: »

Romanza. <cynical mode=on>Anyone actually been there that can give impartial view? <cynical mode=off/> :pac:

Why do you say that?:rolleyes:

delly

fairlyfiery wrote: »

As it was my Birthday my friends decided to take me for dinner(as you do). We had a fab night in Romanza on Dyer st. Drogheda
There were 8 of us and it was a Saturday night the place was jammed as people were coming and going. We were greeted at the door by a very nice waitress and we followed on to the bar where we started with the best cocktails I have ever tasted in this town, I had a Mojito with havana club 25yr reserva and it had berries also topped with champagne although it was 18euro(i think) it was YUM!!!
Off we went to the garden as our table was almost ready, which is the cutest and most romantic smoking garden I have come across in the Louth area , nicely lit by candels and we still could listen to the music from the Piano area.
We were sat away from the piano near the kitchen on the couches(soo comfy) and as usual we had the works!!
Fab starters, I had the parwns in garlic, oil and chilli and i had to ask for more bread to soak it up coz it was YUM!!
We had steaks, pizza, fish and pasta and all round were happy taste buds
At that stage we were on the vino, red-1865 from chilli(couldn't believe it was only €36 and tasted soo good!!) and also drinking my favourite Prosecco!!
I had the 10oz Medium-rare(cooked perfectly where most places over cook it) in a nice pepper sauce. Although i was envious of one of the girls as she had the sizziling fish grill......it looked , sizziled and smelt divine!!
Everyone was happy out!!
Everything is homemade even down to the ice cream. 10 out of 10 for these guys!! well done...i thought i had to go else where(not Drogheda) for tasty food whlie combining some class and style.
I'll defo be back again with another gang!!

If we mention your name, do we get a discount?

:rolleyes:

Dingatron

C'mon out of that do you really think that's not a shill post? Would you register on boards just to post on how good some restaurant in Drogheda is? I'm a cynic at heart I suppose and if I'm wrong so be it. Time will tell and if fairlyfiery is still posting here in 6 months time I'll be proven wrong.

fairlyfiery

FYI Dingatron I actually was there, I am from Drogheda and returned from my travels after 3years and was pleasntly surprised what Drogheda has to offer now Romanza being one of my favourites.
Have you ever been to a good place to eat in the town???
A place where they actually know what they are doing???
I do have other favourites being :
D'vine= great wine and snacks (not a place to go for dinner)for a good catch up in a quiet setting, friendly staff.
The Salthouse= Kick ass food, very reasonable and casual setting and friendly staff.
Redz = great fajitas and thats about it.....well the Vodka bar is good some nights depending on the music.
Pizzeria= probably the best pizzas in town
Jaffa= puke!!

other Italian restaurants not worth the mention
Oh and I quiet like the little place on Stockwell st (artizan cafe...something like that) they make their own hummus and it's great!! and the just revamped with a seating area!!
Scholars well I still haven't been ....it's on my list

And I will also agree about the rudeness of the staff in Alio&Farina, I have no idea how they are still in buisness.

Also if someone has a good time in a place is it not their right to post it ??
Although I do understand your cynicall behaviour, I like it!!

dagb20

Regarding Indian restaruants in Drogheda, I have tried Indus, Punjab House and the Curry House for either sit in or take outs.
Indus is very nice food and they seem to change the menu often enough. The restaurant is too noisy though with the music blarring out.
Punjab House - food is good, not as good as Indus in my opinion. Restaruant is strange if you are there when it's empty. was there early on a saturday and felt weird until it began to fill up. Had take aways a few times from it and was good.
Curry House is only ok. If I had to pick one today it would be Indus.

Also agree with a few other people on the Monasterboice Inn, very over rated and still living on past reputation as a great steak house.

Salthouse is very good, food is nice and I still think they have live music on the weekends. Wine list was ok but they had a very nice beer selection.

best Italian would be Pizzeria - suprisingly they do a great steak, far better than Monasterboice inn anyway.

Always thought boiled onion was just average food.

D'vine, nice food and wine, good for a romantic meal.

Redz - fajitas are the way to go in there.

zac8

I would agree with a previous poster that Scholars can't be beaten. I think it's exceptional.

I was in Romanza during the summer with a group of about 15 and every one of us thought the food was extremely poor. Table of 4 beside us weren't impressed either.

Shame the Lemongrass is gone. Really liked the food & service there.

And I'd highly recommend the Poet's Rest in Slane.

positron

zac8 wrote: »

Shame the Lemongrass is gone. Really liked the food & service there.

:eek: It is? Oh ffs, they were my favorite too!!

zac8

positron wrote: »

:eek: It is? Oh ffs, they were my favorite too!!

yeah closed about 2 weeks ago.

Dingatron

I believe there's a new restaurant downstairs from the old Lemongrass called The Eastern Seaboard and is getting positive feedback from what I've heard. Haven't been in it yet though so can't review. Its on my list though. Anyone been in it?

delly

Dingatron wrote: »

I believe there's a new restaurant downstairs from the old Lemongrass called The Eastern Seaboard and is getting positive feedback from what I've heard. Haven't been in it yet though so can't review. Its on my list though. Anyone been in it?

Passed it yesterday and it looks very fancy.

On a side note, good ridance to the lemon grass.

Lister1

delly wrote: »

If we mention your name, do we get a discount?

:rolleyes:

Staff discount maybe? Or perhaps a freebie from the owner...

bettedavis

where and what (pub? restaurant?) is redz ?

dagb20

bettedavis wrote: »

where and what (pub? restaurant?) is redz ?

Redz is a pub\restaurant on West Street, the main stree in drogheda. when you're walking out of st. peters church on west street, take a right and the pub\restaurant is about 150m up on the right hand side

Mr Magnolia

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zac8

delly wrote: »

On a side note, good ridance to the lemon grass.

whenever we went to collect a takeaway my wife always got a complimentary glass of wine while she waited. couldn't avail myself as i was always driving :rolleyes:

one time they gave us the wrong main course which we only realised when we got home. phoned to complain and the owner drove out to us in tullyallen with a replacement and a complimentary bottle of wine even though we had eaten what they had given us :eek: ok so they got the first order wrong but that is some customer service.

sorry to see them close when you see some of the sorry excuses for restaurants still in the town.

Pipsie Pie

Was out for dinner in the Eastern Seaboard last saturday... Have to say had a lovely evening, the surroundings,atmosphere, food and wine were all superb and its not too pricey!! Definetly will be revisiting it over the xmas!!

Highly Recomended!

mendacity

about the lemongrass too - it was very reliable.

I was disappointed with Romanzo's - firstly it was cold in there - the plug in electric heaters suggests they are having some problems with the heating.

Secondly the Piano playing was too loud and partyish for a mostly empty restaurant.

The fish was good and I am glad it is local (Clogherhead) but over priced at 24 quid for a simple seabass and mash - no veg

delly

Well my Lemongrass experience was one of friendly staff, but pretty bland food.

Porkpie

Went to Indus recently. 8 of us. We were left waiting for 15 minutes before a table was ready. Service was extremely slow. Ok they were packed this particular night, but they should have been able to cope with the numbers. We were sitting upstairs and were freezing due to an automatic door leading out to the smoking area opening all the time. And my brother was seated beside some air conditioning vent in the wall, further adding to the big chill! Service was friendly although they didn't have a clue what they were doing, got some of the orders mixed up. Food was nothing special.

Overall poor impression, I won't be going there again. Maybe we should have gone next door to the eastern seaboard place, hearing good reports about it.

louthandproud

Pipsie Pie wrote: »

Was out for dinner in the Eastern Seaboard last saturday... Have to say had a lovely evening, the surroundings,atmosphere, food and wine were all superb and its not too pricey!! Definetly will be revisiting it over the xmas!!

Highly Recomended!

Is this a bar and a restaurant that you can just go for a drink in also, or is it for dining only?

Porkpie

Yeah, there's a bar there also. So you can have some drinks after your meal if you like.

aquascrotum

I was in Indus last friday night - dunno what my overall impression was. Food wasn't bad, decor is very modern if you're into that and the staff were nice. The portions looked small on the plate but I think that was because the plates were bloody huge, I still left full.

Can't help feelin that 70 euro for 1 starter, 2 mains and 2 small beers is fairly dear though. I'm tired of harpin on about prices up north but a party of 5 of us dined in an excellent Indian in Belfast (Archana, Dublin Road if you're ever looking a good feed). All of us had starters, huge mains, bottle of wine for the ladies and large Tiger beers each for the lads - for £90. 20euro/head vs 35euro/head.....?

positron

Aaarh finally..!! ..85 posts later, someone agrees with my view on Indus portions/costs! aquascrotum, you are my new hero!!

HALLOW RUBY

I'm thinking of going to the The Eastern Seaboard at some stage this week. What kind of food is on offer in this place?

Fingers Mcginty

I have been to Romanza...Have to say it was a positive experience. The staff were friendly...food was excellent .Would go again.

dagb20

Was in Romanza just before christmas, I thought the food was excellent. everyone who ordered a fish dish thought it was great, the steaks were supposably a let down.
My opinion was that the food is lovely but the service is absolutly terrible.

dpjobrien

Based on previous recommendations for this restaurant, my wife, sister-in-law, her husband and myself decided to try it out last night.

We were seated in the middle of the floor which was quite spacious, however the wooden chairs were not that comfortable, the design of the restaurant section needs to be finished, the services in the ceiling are exposed and the columns have not yet been painted. The bar section is very nicely decorated and quite modern.

Overlooking this we were handed the menus by a less than friendly waitress, which where wooden clipboards with 3 A4 dirty/gruby sheets with the last page being a limited wine list. She proceded to inform us that at least half the menu was unavailable, for instance of the 5 fish dishes 2 were unavailable and again same with the desserts.

We ordered a bottle of white wine, which was poured straight without us viewing the bottle to check it was the correct one that we had ordered and it was not left in a wine cooler bucket.

Starters arrived, soup, chowder and fish cakes were lovely however one ordered the Chicken wings, which had hardly any meat on them. It was as if someone had scraped the bone clean and left bits of chicken hanging at the top of the bones, looked like someone had already eaten them.

Mains arrived, veggie burger looked inedible and tasted like it had been deep fried with chips, fish and everything else in the kitchen. Chicken burgers looked like a fillet that had been sliced thinly into 3 pieces, breaded and then deep fried, the only distinctive taste was the lettuce. I thought it was a piece of deep fried plaice (fish) in batter it was that thin. Steak sandwich would have been nice if it had been left on the grill for a bit longer, if you like a medium stake it was fine, but anyone who likes it well done would not have eaten it as it was still pink in the middle and also very fatty.

When a restaurant can't even get chips right it doesn't hold well, Cheap but not very cheerful. We left this restaurant very disappointed and with the view that we would never return.

musicfan

we went to Eastern Seaboard Restaurant about 2 weeks ago, was very impressed.

Bar area was really nice and modern and not too busy - easy to get served, when we were handed the menus on the clipboards (not overly impressed by this, but am not going to moan about such a minor little thing!), we were informed there were a couple of things not available - we thought this was cos it was a busy Saturday night and we had a late booking.

We were shown to our table and presented with a small loaf of the most delicious bread ever to keep us going until our starters arrived. The crostini was out of this world......

Main courses was the burger which again was divine, and the deserts were superb - could hardly move when we were leaving! Very very reasonably priced, staff were very friendly and would reccommend and will def make another visit soon!

hargo

Relish in Bettystown for lunch and afternoon, great food reasonably priced and if you get a window seat, what a view.
Salthouse good food simple suroundings
La Pizzeria great pizza, read a very good review of it 25 years ago in the Sunday Indo and it says something that its still going strong.
Borzalino's poor food, noisy and bad service and poor food, yea i said it twice!
Rolf's in Ardee, don1t know if its still there but was very good.
Poets Rest in Slane, well if his chocolate cake is anything to go by i'm looking forward to trying it.

hero9

:eek: the chicken wings at this place are some of the best we ever had! they prepare them so you can just pick 'em up and eat 'em! ALL the meat IS at the end the bone, kinda like a lollipop! deeeelicious.

unfinished interior? i think it's meant to look that way! i like it, it reminds me of places in new york. great lighting at night adds to the very laid back relaxed atmosphere. the night we were there the manager apologized for the temporary menus saying she expected the final menu in the new year - i kinda like the clipboard idea though. i had the burger with fries which are cooked with the skin on (maybe that's why previous post didn't like 'em) really tasty and my wife had the mackerel with creamy mash (best she's ever had). i've heard other people talking about the little buckets of calamari and the barbequed ribs - we'rre gonna tr these the next time we go. we'll be back therre again for sure:P if we can get a reservation!

hero9

the stockwell cafe is kinda cute too - nice food and really friendly staff!

peaches79

Anyone advise what Eastern Seaboard's like for veggie options?
Thanks in advance

wurpy

:) My husband is one of the main chefs in eastern seaboard and grill.. The reason for the clipboard menu and the unfinished interior and the absence of some of the menu items is that the business has just recently changed ownership. He is a fantastic chef, Im very lucky, too well fed!. That is my unbiased opinion. They are extremely busy since they have taken over.

hero9

wurpy wrote: »

:) My husband is one of the main chefs in eastern seaboard and grill.. The reason for the clipboard menu and the unfinished interior and the absence of some of the menu items is that the business has just recently changed ownership. He is a fantastic chef, Im very lucky, too well fed!. That is my unbiased opinion. They are extremely busy since they have taken over.

I thought they were brand new & just recently opened? It's a husband and wife team, no? the head chef is American, i think, and used to be at the Waterside and the KClub. It's only open about 5 weeks i think you are wrong about it changing hands already! i also don't think the interior is unfinished - just different. YOU ARE LUCKY - i've heard chef's usually don't cook at home - your household must be the exception!

hero9

peaches79 wrote: »

Anyone advise what Eastern Seaboard's like for veggie options?
Thanks in advance

went for a working-lunch;) the other day and shared a few dishes, had the goats cheese salad and a crostini and corn chowder (don't know if you eat fish or not but you can have this with fresh crab or without) we ALSO had ribs and chicken wings. EVERYTHING was delicious. i'm not a veggie but they seem to have intersting options and a range of yummy side dishes.

peaches79

Hmmmm, thanks for that Hero, I'll have to investigate further so

wurpy

Hi hero9

I suppose I am lucky that he does all the cooking. He never stops cooking and baking, he likes to practice, but I keep eating too much!!!! I rarely cook. Most chefs will not cook once they clock off.

They do some veggie dishes:

vegetarian burger, veggie kebab, spaghetti, veg soup corn chowder, but im sure they would adapt any dish to suit a vegetarian.

Sorry, re business changing hands, I meant that the current owner took it over recently in October. I dont know if it was a restaurant before. They have been so busy they have not had spare time to sort the menu. Youre right, he was born in America and did run the Waterside, he is a terribly nice guy. Its not a husband and wife team, just the owner and his team.

wurpy

Maybe it is supposed to look like that, but I know they havent had a free minute to think since they opened.

My husband does the starters and sides. He also does some of the mains and desserts. The creamy mash is one of his. Youre right the wings are prepared like that (lollipop style) purposely to make them easier to eat. Thats why they look unusual