The Hungry Monk, Greystones

The Hungry Monk
Church Road, Greystones, Co Wicklow
Telephone 01 2875759


Participants: U, F, R

Rating

• Food: 5/6
• Drink: 4.7/6
• Toilet: 4/6
  
• Ambience: 5.3/6

Price: Menu for 30€, including coffee

Food

• Terrine of Chicken
• Black pudding
• Smoke salmon platter
• Leg of Lamb, with mint sauce
• Stuffed chicken breat with mashed potatoes
• Tarte Tatin
• Plum crumble with Greek yoghurt
• Strawberry white cheesecake with amaretto

"Also good selection of bread - the first soda bread I liked in Ireland!"
"Salmon was average good."
"Mash was exceptional, with garlic."
"Lamb: tasy meat, excellent flavour. Very strong mint sauce, but I think that's the way it should be."
"_Lots_ of vegetables, potatoes, mash, ..."
Tarte: "Desert was a bit so-so-ish."

Drink: Faustino 1, Rioja

"Very distinctive bottle"
"Huge, ambitious wine list. Whiskey choice was less exciting. Good prices. Ask waiter to recommend a wine."
"Extensive wine list, but finding a nice one under 30€ can be a challenge. Some wines in the triple digits."

Toilet

"Gregorian Chant excellent fit for the theme."

Ambience

"consequently appled monk theme, cozy place."
"Great, very comfy! Open fire, monk pictures throughout and atmospheric chant on the toilet. Great place for a day out."

The Winding Stair Café

40 Lower Ormond Quay,
Dublin 1,
Ireland
Phone:+353 (0)1 873-3292



Participants: U, D, F, R

Rating

• Food: 5/6
• Drink: 5,3/6
• Ambience: 5/6

Price: Main courses from 17- 25€.

Food: Turnip soup. Charcuterie. Boxty topped with a bed of spinach and mushrooms and blue cheese on top of it. Roast Pork Belly. Fish & chips. White chocolate mousse.

"Simplistic with high quality ingredients. Vegetarians should be cheese lovers, though. Otherwise they might leave hungry..."
"Really good charcuterie plate."
"Ooey-gooey chcolate brownie. Yummy!"
"Very good, very simple, but delicious."
"Roast Pork Belly was nice and juicy, although the cider sauce was maybe a bit far-fetched."

Drink: Montepulciano (22€). Castro Martin, Albarino

"Red wine very pleasant"
"White wine was more on the sweet side, but with interesting flavours."

Ambience

"Too loud, but probably caused by this loud French group singing and chatting." (Remark: on that day, France won against Ireland in 6 Nations Rugby - so these guys had a reason to celebreate...)
"Some more curtain and carpets would help."
"Great selection of antique books, e. g. "The Evolution of Marriage": "(...) Men like to symbolise in the ceremonial the rapes of former days, which they cannot and dare not any longer to commit." NO COMMENT?!?
"Loved the leather hippo on the coffee table!"
"Extra point for the cute mini-hippo."

Afternoon Time at Merrion Hotel

Merrion Hotel
Upper Merrion Street, Dublin 2, Ireland
Telephone 353 1 603 0600

Participants: J, U, F, R


Rating

• Food: 5/6
• Drink: 5/6
• Toilet: 5.5/6
  
• Ambience: 5.5/6

Price: 30€ per person


Food: Sandwiches, scones, cakes, ...

"Wow - what a tower of sweets!"
"Ration savoury/sweet could be more balanced."
"Scones were not warm, which would have been even nicer."

Drink: Tea, Jasmin tea

"Served periodically without request."
"Wonderful flavour."

Toilet

"Good but far away."
"Very clean."
"Perfect! Soap, tissues, hand lotion - even flushing was possible (with hint of irony...)!"

Ambience

"Upper-class interior, exquisite paintings (e.g. Y. B. Yeats), real fireplace."
"Awful knee-torturing tables."
"Quiet, relaxing athmosphere, live harp music. Professional Service."
"There were only 4 tables in a room, where there would be 15 in other Dublin restaurants."

Overall

"Good idea to make a reservation, if you want a sofa on a Sunday afternoon."
"Plenty of food - price not too bad at all for Dublin..."
"Ideal place for a cold afternoon."