lunch near mater hospital Dublin

suncatch

Just wondering if anyone has a suggestion where to bring 2 elderly relatives for a nice lunch near mater hospital. I will have a car so somewhere I can drop them at and either go park car onsite or somewhere I wont find hard to find parking near. Was thinking somewhere either around Phibsborough or Drumcondra. We have relative sick in mater so dont want to be too far away.

Zaph

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matrim

The brian boru (Hedigans) would be a decent shout. It has a large car park at the back and does decent carvery style food

marquise

Woodstock in Phibsborough also does carvery style food and is nice.

suncatch

marquise wrote: »

Woodstock in Phibsborough also does carvery style food and is nice.

Thank you martim and marquise for your suggestions much appreciated

spurious

Other possibilities- the Botanic gardens where there is parking, Canajun cafe on Berkeley road or Bleecker St on Dorset street, though you would have to walk to them.

Gavin "shels"

Clarke Bakery on the Old Cabra Rd had/has a cafe.

L1011

Used to go to Aurora on the corner of Eccles and Dawson Street, or at a slightly lower end of the scale Tasty Options on Dorset Street when I was in the area.

amtc

The Gresham does a nice lunch and had parking. As does Jury's inn in parnell street

January

The White Moose Cafe

Stephenc66

The Skylon the food in the bar there is good and parking on site. There are a three or four restaurants across the street from the hotel as well

RasTa

January wrote: »

The White Moose Cafe

Do not bring them near this place. It's run by that moron that loves himself and media attention. Even on their site it has his "unique" sense of humor

The White Moose Cafs the only 5-Michelin-Star restaurant on planet Earth. We specialise in high-carb, low-protein meals. We don’t do decaf coffee, non-alcoholic beer or gluten-free dishes, as we firmly believe that you only live once. If you are not happy with any of the above, you are probably a precious snowflake in which case we don’t want you in our cafnyway. Thank you now. Bye Bye.

quickbeam

RasTa wrote: »

Do not bring them near this place. It's run by that moron that loves himself and media attention. Even on their site it has his "unique" sense of humor

Jaysus! Just visited their site. You ain't exaggerating. What a tool! :eek:

vandriver

RasTa wrote: »

Do not bring them near this place. It's run by that moron that loves himself and media attention. Even on their site it has his "unique" sense of humor

But what do you think of the food, following your last visit?

Collie D

vandriver wrote: »

But what do you think of the food, following your last visit?

I get your point but anyone who talks down to their customers like he does doesn't deserve custom unless their surname is Fawlty.

Anyway, enough about him. I'm sure he's loving the mentions.

Of the selections above I think Hedigan's is your best bet. Woodstock decent too but doesn't have parking

vandriver

Collie D wrote: »

I get your point but anyone who talks down to their customers like he does doesn't deserve custom unless their surname is Fawlty.

Anyway, enough about him. I'm sure he's loving the mentions.

Of the selections above I think Hedigan's is your best bet. Woodstock decent too but doesn't have parking

Of course I knew you'd never been there.

SB_Part2

I came here to recommend The White Moose Cafe as well.

The food is great there but if you're the kinda person who believes he'd just walk up and shout at you for no reason then you're better off not going.

RasTa

vandriver wrote: »

But what do you think of the food, following your last visit?

Average, that was before he became a media whore. Opened to the public on Christmas day for breakfast ffs.

SB_Part2

RasTa wrote: »

Average, that was before he became a media whore. Opened to the public on Christmas day for breakfast ffs.

Since he's only been on snapchat about a year I'm guessing you went before then.

He's changed chefs since and the new dishes are gorgeous.

CD-R 80

RasTa wrote: »

Average, that was before he became a media whore. Opened to the public on Christmas day for breakfast ffs.

What’s the problem with that? It’s a small hotel as far as I know and I’m sure the staff are paid accordingly.

I suppose you want pubs to remain closed on good Friday too?

Food is actually very nice there by the way!

flanzer

RasTa wrote: »

Do not bring them near this place. It's run by that moron that loves himself and media attention. Even on their site it has his "unique" sense of humor

You sound like a barrel of laughs. I'd say you're great craic on a night out

RasTa

CD-R 80 wrote: »

What’s the problem with that? It’s a small hotel as far as I know and I’m sure the staff are paid accordingly.

I suppose you want pubs to remain closed on good Friday too?

Food is actually very nice there by the way!

Fine for guests but not the public

flanzer wrote: »

You sound like a barrel of laughs. I'd say you're great craic on a night out

You think he is funny?

All our food is cooked to order. This can take time. If you want fast food, there’s a McDonalds in Phibsborough village. If you venture into the village I’d strongly advise that you carry some form of handheld weapon and wear a good helmet of some sort.

Hilarious right?

SB_Part2

What has him being funny or not funny in your opinion got to do with the food?

alastair

SB_Part2 wrote: »

What has him being funny or not funny in your opinion got to do with the food?

If you have to endure the proprietor’s attention-seeking idiocy in order to get a bite to eat, well, there’s better grub options locally, without the penalty of feeding the troll.

SB_Part2

alastair wrote: »

If you have to endure the proprietor’s attention-seeking idiocy in order to get a bite to eat, well, there’s better grub options locally, without the penalty of feeding the troll.

You realise he’s the manager and doesn’t actually serve the food or seat people, right?

alastair

SB_Part2 wrote: »

You realise he’s the manager and doesn’t actually serve the food or seat people, right?

You realise I never made any such claim, right?

SB_Part2

alastair wrote: »

You realise I never made any such claim, right?

Then how would you have to endure his behaviour?

There’s plenty of people who eat there who don’t have snapchat and know nothing about him.

alastair

SB_Part2 wrote: »

Then how would you have to endure his behaviour?

There’s plenty of people who eat there who don’t have snapchat and know nothing about him.

They avert their eyes as they walk into the place, do they? You don’t need to use Snapchat to recognise his idiocy.

SB_Part2

alastair wrote: »

They avert their eyes as they walk into the place, do they? You don’t need to use Snapchat to recognise his idiocy.

No they go in, get coffee, a nice breakfast or lunch and leave again.

alastair

SB_Part2 wrote: »

No they go in, get coffee, a nice breakfast or lunch and leave again.

You seem determined to miss the point.

SB_Part2

alastair wrote: »

You seem determined to miss the point.

And you seem determined to discredit the Cafe as a nice place to go for coffee and food.

alastair

SB_Part2 wrote: »

And you seem determined to discredit the Cafe as a nice place to go for coffee and food.

As long as you’re prepared to endure the propietor’s idiocy that is. Plenty of better local options without that overhead. Feel free to continue to miss the (clearly articulated) point in favour of red herrings.

January

Funny enough Paul is great man, he's friendly to everyone in the cafe if he's there. His online persona is nothing like how he acts when working in the cafe.

The food is fab too.

vandriver

January wrote: »

Funny enough Paul is great man, he's friendly to everyone in the cafe if he's there. His online persona is nothing like how he acts when working in the cafe.

The food is fab too.

Reported as a shill

vandriver

(joking!)