Our reader Lisa, who also blogs about food at What We Eat, sent us a great recommendation for eating out in Dun Laoghaire:
We love Gastropub in Dun Laoghaire, and I wanted to recommend their “Sunday Lunch” to your readers.
For 30 quid you can have sunday lunch for four people, a roast chicken, roast potatoes, and veg with gravy. We go there a lot on a strict ‘water only’ instruction to everyone, and get dessert in Marks and Spencer around the corner to have when we get home. It makes for such a nice Sunday, with a pre-dinner walk on the metals.
The staff are great, nothing is too much trouble, although we did have to explain what a saucer was to one of the newer girls! The tables, all thrifted and reclaimed, are amazing, some sitting up to 12! I really like the atmosphere, even when its not busy it feels welcoming.
The only complaint we had, after praising everything else, was the gravy. More of a red wine reduction than gravy, it didn’t compliment the chicken at all, we felt it would have swam better around a stronger tasting meat.
Do try it, it is such a good deal, and if you do decide to stump up for dessert, the sticky toffee pudding is beyond divine…
So to sum up – Gastropub – Sunday – Go Eat!
Zoe in Galway gives us a tapas tip:
There’s a really nice Tapas resturant in Galway called Cava, on Dominick Street. Tapas are from €5.00 and five or six plates would feed four people happily. Nice atmosphere and the food is good. It can work out expensive for large groups if some are having starters and main courses and others are having tapas; but if everyone agrees to have tapas it works out fine!