Stoneybatter

Hootanany

Seems the old Basilco is opening up again anyone know whats it going to be.

Miguel_Sanchez

Stopped to chat with the friendly proprietor today.

It's going to be Soulful Bistro apparently.

Hootanany

Looks good cheers

lukesmom

She's a good friend of mine, the manager. It will be a great place

Hootanany

When is it opening

athtrasna

The lights were on last night and there was a blackboard outside saying "Opening 22 February" but tonight when I passed around 7 it was dark and the shutters were down.

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Vegetarian & Vegan Restaurant

That will go down well with us locals:rolleyes:

Don't suppose they could do vegetarian steak ..the cows are vegetarian

AnonoBoy

Rocky Easy Railing wrote: »

Vegetarian & Vegan Restaurant

That will go down well with us locals:rolleyes:

Don't suppose they could do vegetarian steak ..the cows are vegetarian

I don't think it's solely a veggie restaurant. They were talking about sausages and steak a few days ago. I think they're just doing veggie options.

athtrasna wrote: »

The lights were on last night and there was a blackboard outside saying "Opening 22 February" but tonight when I passed around 7 it was dark and the shutters were down.

They pushed the opening back until Saturday morning according to their Facebook page.

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AnonoBoy wrote: »

I don't think it's solely a veggie restaurant. They were talking about sausages and steak a few days ago. I think they're just doing veggie options.



They pushed the opening back until Saturday morning according to their Facebook page.

says vegan and vegetarian on their Facebook page.

lukesmom

Opening tomorrow morning at 9am. Not just vegan and vegetarian, they cater for everybody. There will be yummy steaks too. Looking forward to going up myself in the next few days. This lady has dreamt of opening her own restaurant for years and now she has finally succeeded. She's extremely passionate about feeding people beautiful food.:)

RATM

Would be surprised if a vegan restaurant would last long in Stoneybatter. I'm not saying anything against Stoneybatter but you need a volume of vegans/vegetarians to survive and very few suburbs have that volume, hence why city center is a better bet where your target market comes from all four directions.

So I hope for their sake that meat is being served, though that in itself could be slightly counter productive as your strict vegetarian or vegan might hate the smell of meat being cooked and hence won't go there. So I'm a bit confused on this one, it seems neither here nor there and sometimes trying to be all things to all people can be a fatal business error.

But I hope I am wrong and wish them well , always good to see new businesses opening up

Hootanany

Rocky Easy Railing wrote: »

Vegetarian & Vegan Restaurant

That will go down well with us locals:rolleyes:

Don't suppose they could do vegetarian steak ..the cows are vegetarian

That links to nothing in Stoneybatter

athtrasna

Miguel_Sanchez wrote: »

Stopped to chat with the friendly proprietor today.

It's going to be Soulful Bistro apparently.

Hootanany wrote: »

That links to nothing in Stoneybatter

Click the link in the first post I quoted.

John Mason

oooooooooohh, brilliant there is a major shortage of decent veggie restaurants:).

athtrasna

irishbird wrote: »

oooooooooohh, brilliant there is a major shortage of decent veggie restaurants:).

It's not exlusively veggie but does veggie and vegan food.

John Mason

athtrasna wrote: »

It's not exlusively veggie but does veggie and vegan food.

ah crap :mad:

robjones1981

anyone anything to report from this place?

do they have breakfast or lunch menus online anywhere to look through?

Hootanany

I had a look in the window guggy eggs are on the menu:D

cosmic

Hootanany wrote: »

I had a look in the window guggy eggs are on the menu:D

NOM!

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Hootanany wrote: »

That links to nothing in Stoneybatter

Thats the link they have on their facebook page

athtrasna wrote: »

It's not exlusively veggie but does veggie and vegan food.

Glad to see it also caters for us meat eaters. I wonder if I went down would they do me a nice steak and sit me beside a vegan:rolleyes:

Mr Whirly

Rocky Easy Railing wrote: »

I wonder if I went down would they do me a nice steak and sit me beside a vegan:rolleyes:

Odd fetish I have to say.

athtrasna

What's the story with this place. Drove past it at 6.20pm tonight and it was dark with the shutters down?

Hootanany

I think it's closed one day a week I could be wrong thou.

Gillo

Rocky Easy Railing wrote: »

Thats the link they have on their facebook page




Glad to see it also caters for us meat eaters. I wonder if I went down would they do me a nice steak and sit me beside a vegan:rolleyes:

And would your moan about how they grow the carrots in factories, force feed them and then kill them.

Book me a seat and a dirty big steak too:)

Miguel_Sanchez

athtrasna wrote: »

What's the story with this place. Drove past it at 6.20pm tonight and it was dark with the shutters down?

It closes one day a week - Tuesdays.

Aard

Hootanany wrote: »

I had a look in the window guggy eggs are on the menu:D

Forgive my ignorance...but what's a guggy egg?

cosmic

Aard wrote: »

Forgive my ignorance...but what's a guggy egg?

I knew it as 'egg in a cup' when i was growing up. My OH calls it guggy egg though and I've started to now too.

Boil and egg (or two), de-shell, put it into a cup, add butter (only the real kind counts!) and loads of white pepper and mush it all about.
Serve with soldiers

lukesmom

Spoke to the my friend Moira the proprietor of Soulful Bistro yesterday I have sent her a link to this thread and she is more than happy to answer any questions you may have.

Hootanany

Thinking of going down tomorrow night for Dinner has anybody been what's n e on the Menu.
Many thanks in advance.

nudger

You can drop in and grab a menu, not up on Facebook yet.
Catering for everyone but with an extra bit of thought put in for Veggies.

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nudger wrote: »

You can drop in and grab a menu, not up on Facebook yet.
Catering for everyone but with an extra bit of thought put in for Veggies.

I like my veggies...with a nice steak.:D
But seriously.
thinking of going down for lunch tomorrow.

has anyone been down? what are prices like?

Hootanany

Rocky Easy Railing wrote: »

I like my veggies...with a nice steak.:D
But seriously.
thinking of going down for lunch tomorrow.

has anyone been down? what are prices like?

Are they competitive

nudger

Going to drop in and get a menu tomorrow if I get a chance.

nudger

Went this morning, nice and busy which is a good sign.

Got a sample menu, Lunch has the usual Quiche, Lasagne, Beef Burger, Salads, Soups etc €6-€8, obviously with their own twist.

Dinner, 6 starters around €6, 8 mains from €8 to €19(Rib Eye Steak).

On the sample menu I recieved, apart from the Super Salad the rest of the Mains were meat/fish/poultry dishes.

The "Slow cooked Hereford Beef Stew" in O'Hara's Irish red ale and mushrooms served with creamy mash @ €12 :eek: would do me nicely.

I'd say they are busy so I'd book in advance.

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nudger wrote: »

Went this morning, nice and busy which is a good sign.

Got a sample menu, Lunch has the usual Quiche, Lasagne, Beef Burger, Salads, Soups etc €6-€8, obviously with their own twist.

Dinner, 6 starters around €6, 8 mains from €8 to €19(Rib Eye Steak).

On the sample menu I recieved, apart from the Super Salad the rest of the Mains were meat/fish/poultry dishes.

The "Slow cooked Hereford Beef Stew" in O'Hara's Irish red ale and mushrooms served with creamy mash @ €12 :eek: would do me nicely.

I'd say they are busy so I'd book in advance.

never got there today but plan on next weekend.
do they have an early bird menu?

John Mason

`so the only only veggie dish was a salad - FFS:mad:

I would wander down mulligans instead so. at there you have choice of some decent veggie food

nudger

Rocky Easy Railing wrote: »

never got there today but plan on next weekend.
do they have an early bird menu?

Only starting out so not yet.

Hootanany

irishbird wrote: »

`so the only only veggie dish was a salad - FFS:mad:

I would wander down mulligans instead so. at there you have choice of some decent veggie food

Have you asked them for the veggie menu.

Dandelion6

Hootanany wrote: »

Have you asked them for the veggie menu.

If they want to appeal to vegetarians, they shouldn't put the veggie food on a separate "veggie menu" that needs to be specially requested. To me that is a sign of a restaurant that is willing to accommodate vegetarians if they have to, but would rather not bother.

Hootanany

Why dont you go down there and tell them then.

lukesmom

Dandelion6 wrote: »

If they want to appeal to vegetarians, they shouldn't put the veggie food on a separate "veggie menu" that needs to be specially requested. To me that is a sign of a restaurant that is willing to accommodate vegetarians if they have to, but would rather not bother.

No it's not. Soulful bistro caters for everybodys tastes. It's not hard to ask for a veggie menu is it?

Dandelion6

lukesmom wrote: »

No it's not. Soulful bistro caters for everybodys tastes. It's not hard to ask for a veggie menu is it?

Whether it's hard or not isn't the point. It's up to the restaurant to make it clear to the customers what is available, it's not up to customers to find out if they have a special secret menu other than the one the customer is offered by default.

I've had this conversation a million times with other vegetarians and I know a lot of them are equally annoyed by this. And many won't bother asking at all, will just assume that the menu on offer is what's available, and will go elsewhere.

*Shrug* it's up to your friend to decide if she wants to risk losing vegetarian customers by not putting vegetarian food on the main menu. No skin off my nose, plenty of other places I can go.

lukesmom

Dandelion6 wrote: »

Whether it's hard or not isn't the point. It's up to the restaurant to make it clear to the customers what is available, it's not up to customers to find out if they have a special secret menu other than the one the customer is offered by default.

I've had this conversation a million times with other vegetarians and I know a lot of them are equally annoyed by this. And many won't bother asking at all, will just assume that the menu on offer is what's available, and will go elsewhere.

*Shrug* it's up to your friend to decide if she wants to risk losing vegetarian customers by not putting vegetarian food on the main menu. No skin off my nose, plenty of other places I can go.

You should have said it to her when you were there.

reprazant

If you have a vegetarian menu, why would you not put it up? That makes no sense. Who looks at a menu on the door, see's nothing they want but then decides to go in and ask if they have another menu? Pretty much nobody in my experience.

If you have different menu's, you really need to put them on the door.

not yet

nudger wrote: »

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Only starting out so not yet.

You called.?

John Mason

As a vegetarian, i have looked at the menu and i have a choice of a salad. So i will not be going there.

I always check the menu before I book somewhere, as I would assume they will have their menu available and not hidden in the cellar

John Mason

Hootanany wrote: »

Why dont you go down there and tell them then.

Why? Its not up to me to tell someone how to run their business.

Mr Whirly

I've never heard of a place having a separate veggie menu. To claim you're veggie friendly and then only have a salad on the menu is poor form.

robjones1981

Had a none vege irish breakfast here on Saturday - it was good

2 nice proper rashers - meant to ask what they were exactly or which butcher they came from - v good

2 nice sausages - old style small sausage, I would guess supermarket purchased as opposed to butcher - but v nice

Mushroom - not a big mushroom fan - but nice and good size portion

Nice portion of beans - old fashioned type beans if you know what I mean - v good and a nice change

Two pieces of tomato - not great at all, very poor actually

Two good size pieces of toast

All of the above was grilled as opposed fried - not greasy in anyway - again a nice change

Overall pretty happy - a little overpriced though, 11 euro with small pot of tea

Meant to ask to see the sunday roast menu, but forgot to :mad:

lukesmom

Mr Whirly wrote: »

I've never heard of a place having a separate veggie menu. To claim you're veggie friendly and then only have a salad on the menu is poor form.

Did you read the menu?

Six out of 8 starters are vegetarian. Yes there is a salad main for vegetarians but she is working on more recipes at present. They are only open a little over a week. They are also introducing a vegan loaf in the next few days. Rome wasn't built in a day.

Hootanany

I think they are just having a pop might have an agenda.