Best spud dinner in town?

big.bird84

Opinions on where to get the best spud dinner/carvery in the city please? :-)

Creative Juices

The Skeff used to do a great carvery. Haven't been there for a couple of years though.

D Trent

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Don't think they do carvery though

big.bird84

D Trent wrote:

Don't think they do carvery though

That's grand. Doesn't have to be carvery. Thanks for the link :-)

ben.schlomo

Imperial have always done a solid carvery, as does Crowes i think.

ArtyC

Westwood hotel have a nice carvery

Ludikrus

I haven't tried it yet, but Galway Bay Hotel won best carvery in Connaught.

biko

Frends, best spuds in town imo.

Links234

Creative Juices wrote: »

The Skeff used to do a great carvery. Haven't been there for a couple of years though.

Can confirm, Skeff still does a good carvery

spurshero

plus 1 for crowes and frends

MadYaker

The Park House? I hate carvery dinners but I've heard that place is good.

spurshero

MadYaker wrote: »

The Park House? I hate carvery dinners but I've heard that place is good.

How can u hate Carvery dinners. ? Park house hasn't done Carvery in 10 years . Table service it's nice but more expensive

Links234

spurshero wrote: »

How can u hate Carvery dinners. ?

Easily I'd imagine. It comes down to taste, I have to be in the right mood to go for a carvery, a good turkey & ham dinner with stuffing, roast potatoes, veg and lashings of gravy is heaven sometimes, but other times I might feel it's far too stodgy. A friend of mine can't stand carveries because it reminds her of boarding school dinners, and wouldn't even entertain the notion of going for one.

Then you have to account that a lot of people would've had bad experiences of carveries that completely put them off. I used to hate them growing up, because they were the only places elderly relatives would entertain and some of the places I was dragged to as a kid were horrible. Roast beef that's been frazzled, veg that's been reduced to mush, lumpy mash. Wasn't until I was older I ate in some decent places I realized just how good a carvery dinner could be, I was just being taken to crappy places before.

But just have a look at this thread from AH a while back, there's a lot who can't stand it.

Creative Juices

spurshero wrote: »

How can u hate Carvery dinners. ? Park house hasn't done Carvery in 10 years . Table service it's nice but more expensive

To be fair most carverys taste the same. Food for the masses. You rarely sit back from a carvery and say "wow that was a fantastic meal", you would usually say "that did the job".
It is a very slight step down from a wedding dinner.

Joe Duffy..

The Quays.

syklops

spurshero wrote: »

How can u hate Carvery dinners. ?

At home nothing. In a restaurant, the joint of meat sat under a warming lamp for 3 plus hours already, roast potatoes like hockey pucks. Two slices of meat. Yorkshire puddings, again sat under heat lamps for who knows how long. Droopy, old carrots. Bland, meaningless gravy that tastes the same where ever you go.

Carvery out? No thanks, not when I can make better food, at home for less money.

galwaycyclist

Trappers on Tuam Road

Webbs

syklops wrote: »

At home nothing. In a restaurant, the joint of meat sat under a warming lamp for 3 plus hours already, roast potatoes like hockey pucks. Two slices of meat. Yorkshire puddings, again sat under heat lamps for who knows how long. Droopy, old carrots. Bland, meaningless gravy that tastes the same where ever you go.

Carvery out? No thanks, not when I can make better food, at home for less money.

Couldnt agree more. The words 'great carvery', oxymoron in my opinion

big.bird84

Webbs wrote:

Couldnt agree more. The words 'great carvery', oxymoron in my opinion

Each to their own!

syklops

syklops wrote: »

, not when I can make better food, at home for less money.

And an awful lot more effort though.

whatlliwear

Park House

kefir32

whatlliwear wrote: »

Park House

where time stood still especially where the food menu and decor is concerned lol

Tarzana2

syklops wrote: »

Bland, meaningless gravy that tastes the same where ever you go.

Meaningless? The wrong word, surely? :pac:

syklops

Aydin Brave Registration wrote: »

And an awful lot more effort though.

Its well worth it though.

Meaningless? The wrong word, surely?

If its bland and generic then meaningless is the perfect word.

Tarzana2

syklops wrote: »

If its bland and generic then meaningless is the perfect word.

Alrighty then!

El_Dangeroso

Tarzana2 wrote: »

Meaningless? The wrong word, surely? :pac:

I lolled at the idea of someone deriving meaning from gravy :pac:

whatlliwear

kefir32 wrote: »

where time stood still especially where the food menu and decor is concerned lol

Agreed- but their Spud dinners are yummy

galwaycyclist

El_Dangeroso wrote: »

I lolled at the idea of someone deriving meaning from gravy :pac:

Gravy only truly has meaning when it is all over everything, the meat, the roast potatoes, the mash, the potato croquette, the yorkshire pud, the carrotsandparsnips, everything

Tarzana2

galwaycyclist wrote: »

carrotsandparsnips

All one word. Love it! :pac: