A taste of Dublin

Molloys Clondalkin

Dont forget the Taste of Dublin festival started today.
I didnt see any threads about it here so in case anyone missed it,
I know Premier will be there along with a few others.
more info here.
http://www.tasteofdublin.ie

See you there!

BeerNut

The Porterhouse, Carlow, Messrs Maguire and Trouble Brewing will all have stands at it. Great to see it becoming beerier.

Though I see "Master Beer Sommelier" Marc Stroobandt is back. After his tour-de-force in 2009 matching food with Heineken, Carlsberg, Smithwick's and Guinness he's doing a gig for C&C this year, so that'll be Beck's Vier, Stella, Hoegaarden and Bulmer's then.
*cough* whore *cough*

JJ

I haven't been to it but it seems like a bit of a rip-off with tickets close to €30 and then you have to buy their "Florin" currency.

BeerNut

It is a truth universally acknowledged that any discussion thread on Taste of Dublin must primarily concern itself with what a rip-off it is.

Don't go then.

ntlbell

I've never went but as above every thread on it people want to talk about what a rip off it is.

I don't really know about florins and what not, can someone explain a bit more why it's such a rip off?

BeerNut

ntlbell wrote: »

can someone explain a bit more why it's such a rip off?

If you're paying to go (I'm not :cool:) it is expensive. €28.50 to get in, with the tasting dishes costing €6-8 each. It has been quite a bit cheaper in previous years, with food tokens (florins) thrown in.

I've always looked at it as "I would expect to pay this amount of money on a night out in any one of these top-notch restaurants, but here I get to eat the food from lots of them". I think some people expect that, since it's a promotional gig for the restaurants, it should cost the punter less. But that's not how it's been designed and I really don't get why people are angry about it being a different event to the one in their heads.

If you don't think it's good value FFS don't go.

ntlbell

BeerNut wrote: »

If you're paying to go (I'm not :cool:) it is expensive. €28.50 to get in, with the tasting dishes costing €6-8 each. It has been quite a bit cheaper in previous years, with food tokens (florins) thrown in.

I've always looked at it as "I would expect to pay this amount of money on a night out in any one of these top-notch restaurants, but here I get to eat the food from lots of them". I think some people expect that, since it's a promotional gig for the restaurants, it should cost the punter less. But that's not how it's been designed and I really don't get why people are angry about it being a different event to the one in their heads.

If you don't think it's good value FFS don't go.

Ah ok

So it's more people assuming 28.50 includes the food, turning up and having to pay for the dishes?

6-8e seems reasonable for the type of chef's that seem to turn up.

BeerNut

ntlbell wrote: »

So it's more people assuming 28.50 includes the food, turning up and having to pay for the dishes?

I doubt that: it's all very clear at the outset, and was even more so when every ticket had a food allocation built in. I think it's more that it looks like the kind of promotional thing that ought to be very cheap or free, but isn't. It's probably going into the same mental bracket as a farmers' market or the like.

Real_World?

Its a good day out if the weather is nice. Last year I went on the Saturday and doing the same again this year.

Yes it is expensive and you do spend more then you would expect as you have had few nice beers in the sunshine.

But looking at the forecast for this weekend on the RTE website the weather might not be as good. I hope the organisers have a plan if it does rain. With marque's for people to shelter in as last year on the Sunday it was a complete wash out.

JJ

Oh my, looks like I touched a nerve. Anyhoo, you can be rest assured that I will be voting with my feet and not going. I just can't help but think that in the current economic climate (blah blah blah, yaddah yaddah yaddah), the organisers are smoking some very potent herbal stuff with the prices they're charging for tickets.

BeerNut

JJ wrote: »

the organisers are smoking some very potent herbal stuff with the prices they're charging for tickets.

The potent stuff is easily affordable with the vast amounts of money the gig must be raking in for them. If people weren't willing to pay it, they wouldn't charge it. Basic market dynamics, innit.

Beery Eyed

I thought this was pretty good craic over the weekend, mainly because of the beers that were available at it!

Went on Saturday so the weather was good. Had a couple from Trouble Brewing & then went to the "Beer Heaven" stand that Premier were doing. Got somedecent tasting grub (although very small portions that cost quite a lot) & ended up with a few bottles of la chouffe. God, I do love la chouffe!:)

It all got a bit hazy after that!

pdebarra

"a few bottles of La Chouffe"? Never having seen a bottle of that smaller than 750 ml, I shudder to think just how hazy things got for you!

Antrim_Man

BeerNut wrote: »

The Porterhouse, Carlow, Messrs Maguire and Trouble Brewing will all have stands at it. Great to see it becoming beerier.

Though I see "Master Beer Sommelier" Marc Stroobandt is back. After his tour-de-force in 2009 matching food with Heineken, Carlsberg, Smithwick's and Guinness he's doing a gig for C&C this year, so that'll be Beck's Vier, Stella, Hoegaarden and Bulmer's then.
*cough* whore *cough*

Pizza, kebabs, pies and oysters

Beery Eyed

pdebarra wrote: »

"a few bottles of La Chouffe"? Never having seen a bottle of that smaller than 750 ml, I shudder to think just how hazy things got for you!

No they were 330ml bottles! I'd only ever seen them in the big bottles before as well. The guy at the bar said the small bottles were new. Hoping to see them around a few places now cos they're a handier size.

If I'd "a few" of the big bottles after the other beers I'd had I would've been carried out of the place!