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Name of restaurant featured in Bia Devil? [Old Barracks, Athenry]

  • 18-11-2011 05:44PM
    #1
    the keen edge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,533 ✭✭✭


    Recently, in the last month or so, Willie Shaw aka Bia Devil wrote for the Galway Advertiser a knock out review for a newly opened restaurant in Athenry.

    I can't remember the name of the place, and searching the interweb is proving fruitless.
    So by any chance would any boardies be able to recall the name of the place, a phone number would great.

    Not really Galway City related, however I was hoping to go to this restaurant this evening, so if the Mods could let this thread sit in the Galway City forum I'd be greatly obliged.


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  • #2
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,366 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    Its a bit more than a month ago, but I do remember a good review of a restaurant in Athenry in the GA, it was http://www.oldbarracks.ie/

    I haven't been there though.


  • #3
    Traveling Matt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9 ✭Traveling Matt


    The old barracks


  • #4
    the keen edge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,533 ✭✭✭the keen edge


    Cheers Boys.
    I couldn't wait for replies though, so we're just after having a takeaway from Santoor Indian restaurant Oranmore, recommended.

    So Old Barracks, yeah may have been over a month ago I could only recall that it was located in a old building of some sort, and that Willie Shaw(Bia Devil) rated it very highly IIRC.

    Anyone been?.


  • #5
    ErnieBert
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,155 ✭✭✭ErnieBert


    It seems to me that the food critic for the Advertiser is afraid to crtiticise. Well, unless something changed in the last year because I always skip the article nowadays.


  • #6
    Moyglish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 771 ✭✭✭Moyglish


    We tried out the Old Barracks not long after Willie Shaw reviewed it - have to say we had a nice lunch one day, then went back for dinner a week later - was bitterly disappointed however. The dinner we had was just terrible, had to hand back the steak - it was so tough and chewy, couldn't eat it and there was a "funny" taste off the potato making it inedible. Worst meal we had in a LONG time. Haven't been back since.


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  • #7
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    City -> County


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