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Bazzo · 05-03-2017 10:49AM

Buer wrote: »

Rust Bucket is from the Kinnegar Brewery in Donegal. Their beers are all excellent.

Was in Kelly's in Clontarf yesterday. They're stocking a few bottles of Sink The Bismarck, formerly the strongest beer in the world at 41%, made by Brewdog. A bottle costs â‚¬109! Asked the manager about it....tells me it's not pleasant. Collector's item only.

I've tasted both Sink The Bismarck and Tactical Nuclear Penguin(32%) in the salt house in Galway. Horrible stuff.

Buer · 05-03-2017 10:57AM

Bazzo wrote:

I've tasted both Sink The Bismarck and Tactical Nuclear Penguin(32%) in the salt house in Galway. Horrible stuff.

Yeah, bloke said it tastes like extremely potent medicine. Beer should never be brewed to such extremes!

mfceiling · 05-03-2017 02:39PM

Beer that is 8.1% makes shìte of your head the next day...

Erik Shin · 05-03-2017 02:48PM

mfceiling wrote: »

Beer that is 8.1% makes shìte of your head the next day...

Did you finish the meejum?

mfceiling · 05-03-2017 03:43PM

Erik Shin wrote: »

Did you finish the meejum?

The what now? It was blacks of Kinsale Hi viz IPA.

mfceiling · 05-03-2017 03:45PM

So I've been charged with the task of taking herself for a "nice" meal on Saturday night.

Any recommendations? Tried featherblade but they're booked up. Any of the ladies on here care to recommend a "romantic" restaurant.

Stheno, Sullvio.....Awec?

Stheno · 05-03-2017 03:57PM

mfceiling wrote: »

So I've been charged with the task of taking herself for a "nice" meal on Saturday night.

Any recommendations? Tried featherblade but they're booked up. Any of the ladies on here care to recommend a "romantic" restaurant.

Stheno, Sullvio.....Awec?

/snigger

Any particular area?

I'd like to try this http://www.numbertwentytwo.ie/dinner-show/

I also like One Pico in town and Bon Appetit in Malahide

awec · 05-03-2017 05:21PM

mfceiling wrote: »

So I've been charged with the task of taking herself for a "nice" meal on Saturday night.

Any recommendations? Tried featherblade but they're booked up. Any of the ladies on here care to recommend a "romantic" restaurant.

Stheno, Sullvio.....Awec?

Ananda in Dundrum if you like Indian. It's fancy, not just curry, rice and popodums.

sullivlo · 05-03-2017 05:41PM

mfceiling wrote: »

So I've been charged with the task of taking herself for a "nice" meal on Saturday night.

Any recommendations? Tried featherblade but they're booked up. Any of the ladies on here care to recommend a "romantic" restaurant.

Stheno, Sullvio.....Awec?

Any preference for type of grub? And budget?

Went to the unicorn a few weeks back. Tasty. Expensive though (we had the early bird).

The green hen.

The blind pig.

Hugo's is pretty tasty

Cancellation in the vintage kitchen?

.ak · 05-03-2017 05:55PM

mfceiling wrote: »

So I've been charged with the task of taking herself for a "nice" meal on Saturday night.

Any recommendations? Tried featherblade but they're booked up. Any of the ladies on here care to recommend a "romantic" restaurant.

Stheno, Sullvio.....Awec?

Where abouts?

Erik Shin · 05-03-2017 06:00PM

mfceiling wrote: »

The what now? It was blacks of Kinsale Hi viz IPA.

A meejum = medium.. ie a glass of beer.
Hi Viz isn't bad actually

mfceiling · 05-03-2017 06:15PM

.ak wrote: »

Where abouts?

Anywhere in dublin...preferably the city centre.

dregin · 05-03-2017 06:17PM

sullivlo wrote: »

Oh and for those craft beer fans/hipsters, have ye tried out the new pub in grangegorman? Called the barbers and it is a functioning barbers as well as a pub. Serious selection of beer, including dark arts porter (in bottles only) but they have a rye ale called rust bucket and it's amazing.

Good pub. Decent live music too. I'm biased cos I know the owner, but I had fun there. Decent screens for watching the rugby there too.

Got my hair cut in the Thomas House yesterday! Kinnegar do rust bucket. Major fan boy.

.ak · 05-03-2017 06:33PM

mfceiling wrote: »

Anywhere in dublin...preferably the city centre.

Take her to Delahunt, after your dinner go upstairs into the secret cocktail bar for a few, then thank me later.

mfceiling · 05-03-2017 06:57PM

.ak wrote: »

Take her to Delahunt, after your dinner go upstairs into the secret cocktail bar for a few, then thank me later.

Looked at that...I didn't like the menu!! You will not find a plainer eater in the world than me. She actually was there before Xmas and enjoyed it.

.ak · 05-03-2017 07:04PM

mfceiling wrote: »

Looked at that...I didn't like the menu!! You will not find a plainer eater in the world than me. She actually was there before Xmas and enjoyed it.

It's a brilliant spot.

Another place we ate in recently was Richmond Restaurant in Portobello. Great food.

05-03-2017 07:05PM

Dunno how romantic it is but FXB on Pembroke St does a fine (plain) steak.

CMOTDibbler · 05-03-2017 07:07PM

.ak wrote: »

It's a brilliant spot.

Another place we ate in recently was Richmond Restaurant in Portobello. Great food.

I'm not a plain eater but I'm not a fan of limited menus like that one either. I'm sure it's brilliant, but when you're taking somebody out somewhere new, you need to have a big enough menu that they're not disappointed with the choice.

dregin · 05-03-2017 07:08PM

mfceiling wrote: »

So I've been charged with the task of taking herself for a "nice" meal on Saturday night.

Any recommendations? Tried featherblade but they're booked up. Any of the ladies on here care to recommend a "romantic" restaurant.

Stheno, Sullvio.....Awec?

Pearl Brasserie is great.

Erik Shin · 05-03-2017 07:12PM

There a nice burger king on O'Connell Street too, I know the maitre d and can get you the best seat in the house

.ak · 05-03-2017 07:13PM

CMOTDibbler wrote: »

I'm not a plain eater but I'm not a fan of limited menus like that one either. I'm sure it's brilliant, but when you're taking somebody out somewhere new, you need to have a big enough menu that they're not disappointed with the choice.

When the restaurant is good enough I don't care about limited menus; it generally is a great opportunity to order something you normally wouldn't and try something new.

05-03-2017 07:14PM

Luna is fantastic as well.

Restaurants are so busy these days it could be tough to get a table next weekend tbh.

CMOTDibbler · 05-03-2017 07:28PM

.ak wrote: »

When the restaurant is good enough I don't care about limited menus; it generally is a great opportunity to order something you normally wouldn't and try something new.

When you're bringing somebody out, you need to be sure that they can actually choose something off the menu. If you're not 100%, a limited menu is your enemy.

It usually means that what you get will be top class. But if say you don't like venison and want a main meat course, that menu isnt going to float your boat.

.ak · 05-03-2017 07:29PM

Emilee Bitter Ginseng wrote: »

Luna is fantastic as well.

Restaurants are so busy these days it could be tough to get a table next weekend tbh.

I thought Luna was overpriced for what it was, but brilliant service and the setting is something else, real old-school.

.ak · 05-03-2017 07:30PM

CMOTDibbler wrote: »

When you're bringing somebody out, you need to be sure that they can actually choose something off the menu. If you're not 100%, a limited menu is your enemy.

It usually means that what you get will be top class. But if say you don't like venison and want a main meat course, that menu isnt going to float your boat.

Break up with them if they don't like venison.

thomond2006 · 05-03-2017 07:31PM

I strongly recommend the Middle East Feast at Brother Hubbard.

CMOTDibbler · 05-03-2017 07:43PM

.ak wrote: »

Break up with them if they don't like venison.

I don't like venison.

Which is a shame as it generally wanders around my garden without fear

awec · 05-03-2017 07:44PM

In a restaurant I'll generally eat anything except the mushroom based and vegetarian dishes.

mfceiling · 05-03-2017 07:47PM

awec wrote: »

In a restaurant I'll generally eat anything except the mushroom based and vegetarian dishes.

Even vegetarians have a problem with vegetarian food.

Steak, chicken or pork please....preferably all 3 on the 1 plate.

If I'd my choice we'd be in Pitt Bros and I would be having the meat sweats at 9 pm.

molloyjh · 06-03-2017 12:39AM

Sullivlo mentioned the Green Hen, and I'd second that. It's nice and fancy without being too up it's own hole or expensive. The food is all good and still fairly straight forward.

Trocadero is one of those places that I would never have thought of but for the fact that friends booked it for Christmas the year before last. Been back again since. Similar to the Green Hen. Fancy enough for herself, straight forward enough for you.

Both have you slap bang in the middle of town as well.

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