The BGRH fine dining guide

Tom Dunne · 05-12-2008 01:01PM #1

Last Friday evening, I happened to glance at the menu in a pub and was suitably impressed.

Not only did they serve rasher sambos, not only did they serve sausage sambos, they also offered a choice of pudding sandwich in either black or white.

And where was this fine establishment? The Blarney Inn, on Kildare Street.

So, where else would you recommend for a feast fit for a Brother?

The Recliner · 05-12-2008 01:34PM

I was in The Bull and Castle for some food and more than a few beverages recently

They have deep fried mars bar on the menu, naturally in the interests of science I had to order it

It was oddly tasty

Although they served it with some berries and stuff in an effort to make it somewhat healthy. Hah. :pac:

star-pants · 05-12-2008 01:43PM

ooooh Issac Butts - they have lasagne and it's HUGE with piles of chips (clearly not made for wimmins

) and they do roast beef n pepper sauce n things like that. Yummy food and it's in teh bar so you can drink too!

robtri · 05-12-2008 03:54PM

Goint to go about away from home, but on my trips to the U.S. found this lovely establishment that serves the best meat around....
Texas De Brazil... they have a few of them around...
www.texasdebrazil.com
look at their meat selection.... mmmmmmmmmm
you can pay an open fee and you get a little card to put at your dinner plate, its red on one side and green on the other, as long as its green the waiter keep bringing meat from the BBQ to you, it doesn't stop till you turn it to red.... and dear god the amount they bring is amazing...
heaven for all meat eaters...

oh and a good range of beer... a must....

Tom Dunne · 05-12-2008 04:05PM

robtri wrote: »

Goint to go about away from home, but on my trips to the U.S. found this lovely establishment that serves the best meat around....
Texas De Brazil... they have a few of them around...
www.texasdebrazil.com
look at their meat selection.... mmmmmmmmmm
you can pay an open fee and you get a little card to put at your dinner plate, its red on one side and green on the other, as long as its green the waiter keep bringing meat from the BBQ to you, it doesn't stop till you turn it to red.... and dear god the amount they bring is amazing...
heaven for all meat eaters...

oh and a good range of beer... a must....

I was actually in a place, Albuquerque, New Mexico, where the meat was famous, so the locals told me. Driving up to it one thing struck you - the amount of police cars. Seriously, I was expecting Sheriff John Brunell to jump out and give me a lecture on the hazards of driving while suffering from the meat sweats.

It was basically a big warehouse, tables consisted of benches, you queued up and everything bar the meat was plastic. But the meat. All kinds of BBQ'd, flame grilled and broiled meat, BGRH heaven.

Damn good stuff.

In other news, the place I was in at lunch time had Kangaroo pie. Guess what I will be trying next week?

The Recliner · 05-12-2008 04:25PM

Following on that theme

The Millstone on Dame street has ostrich burgers (it is more of a fillet steak than a burger) and it is quite tasty

Degsy · 05-12-2008 04:32PM

The cafe beside superquinn in finglas does a giant all-day breakfast for 9 quid.

myflipflops · 05-12-2008 05:57PM

Ocean Bar on Charlotte Quay dock. They serve one of the few proper burgers in Dublin. It's absolutely huge, proper meat, chips, onions rings and everything else you'd want. Proper bar staff there too - gave me a paper to read while i waited for my mates to arrive and made sure that I pretty much always had a full stout in front of me. Proper barmen ftw.

SoupyNorman · 05-12-2008 06:10PM

pwhite587 wrote: »

Ocean Bar on Charlotte Quay dock. They serve one of the few proper burgers in Dublin. It's absolutely huge, proper meat, chips, onions rings and everything else you'd want. Proper bar staff there too - gave me a paper to read while i waited for my mates to arrive and made sure that I pretty much always had a full stout in front of me. Proper barmen ftw.

Awww Ocean Bar, tis a floozies haunt.

Was in a bar in Carlow, the name eludes me currently. Anyway, daycent looking, copies of The Sun on the counter....nothing to write home about. Ordered a Burger, came out on Ciabatta bun with mango salsa and pesto. Was quite delicious but something didnt add up, twas all abit Fur Coat and No Knickers.

admiralofthefleet · 05-12-2008 08:21PM

the news cafe in blackrock do amazing breakfasts

Gary ITR · 05-12-2008 08:25PM

The Black Lion in Inchicore. They do a savage all day breakfast. In fact I'm gonna have one tomorrow when I'm (hopefully) hungover

Orion · 08-12-2008 05:06PM

Mr Bumbles in Clonmel - starter of Clonakilty black pudding - pure unadulterated blood and guts.

Tom Dunne · 08-12-2008 05:13PM

I happened to notice a place where I get the occasional toasted sandwich is now doing a rich and varied assortment of pies. One of which caught my eye - kangaroo pie.

Watch this space for a full review.

IanCurtis · 09-12-2008 12:36AM

Pffft....food in pubs

Eating is cheating

Embarrassing

smashey · 09-12-2008 09:25AM

For anybody ever travelling from Derry to Belfast, I would strongly recommend sampling the breakfast in the Oak Leaf at the bottom of Glenshane.

Smashey has never had a breakfast like it.

LolaDub · 09-12-2008 04:31PM

Last weekend i had a so called irish fry in marks and spencers restaurant on grafton st. I was very disappointed. Two barely fried eggs, two very thin and tiny grilled rashers only one sausage-also grilled, one big mushroom, one grilled half a tomato with an english muffin instead of toast! The brothers would have torn the place apart had they been served such a foul excuse for a breakfast

Zaph · 09-12-2008 04:37PM

LolaDub wrote: »

Last weekend i had a so called irish fry in marks and spencers restaurant on grafton st. I was very disappointed. Two barely fried eggs, two very thin and tiny grilled rashers only one sausage-also grilled, one big mushroom, one grilled half a tomato with an english muffin instead of toast! The brothers would have torn the place apart had they been served such a foul excuse for a breakfast

First 800 years of oppression and now this? It's an outrage!

LolaDub · 09-12-2008 04:40PM

Zaph wrote: »

First 800 years of oppression and now this? It's an outrage!

Believe me zaph i voiced my displeasure at 800 years plus this so called fry. Some of the eggs were still white, how am i supposed to cultivate my fat ass if they don't fry my food into oblivion?

myflipflops · 09-12-2008 07:58PM

IanCurtis wrote: »

Pffft....food in pubs

Eating is cheating

Embarrassing

I heartily disagree with this statement sir. A man must lay claim his right to sit in a pub all day both drinking stout and sampling whatever food (cooked in fat) that they serve. To state 'eating is cheating' would be to suggest that the only reason we should drink is purely to get drunk. This is not a goal i have very often (although drunkenness remains a pleasant side effect when i drink). A man drinks for various reason - for the taste of it, because it makes him funnier, to enable him to argue about sport more effectively, to annoy or impress a member of the opposite sex, to prove he can still drink 10 pints and get up for work the next morning - but i feel that drinking for the sake of drunkennes is not a manly quality.

Tom Dunne · 09-12-2008 09:00PM

Actually, speaking of pub grub, the Crossbar in Harolds Cross do good grub.

The BGRH fine dining guide

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