Now I will admit to being slightly high maintenance when it comes to service and quality. During one weekend visit to Glasgow I changed room 5 times before getting one I was happy with. As I approached the desk for the 5th time, (can you imagine her face), the canny and exasperated receptionist remarked,
“Ach, I’ve worked here 3 years, but you’ve seen more rooms than I ‘ave.”
The room did prove to be important as I was sharing with the Snorathon 5000, so very little sleep was had, but at least I had a nice surroundings to admire as I lay awake listening to the drone.
Back in Dublin I have loads to complain about and the restaurants are re-igniting my inner bitch. My last 3 meals out all resulted in the main courses being returned to the kitchen. How bloody difficult can it be to cook a decent meal, certainly they have no problem charging for the pleasure.
Jacob’s Ladder
Had the chef played tag rugby with the carcass of the duck in the sand plains of the Saudi desert he could not have produced a dryer or tougher bird.
Brasserie 66
After a 45 minute wait for the main courses ( on a table that had to be vacated by 9pm ) my steak finally arrived at room temperature. Where is global warming when you need it?
Dunn & Crezensiz ( ?? )
A pasta confection with meat pieces so hard you would need metal teeth like Jaws to consume. In fact the beef was so tough that I imagined the cow wearing a hoodie and carrying a switch blade, intimidating all the other cattle in the field. In his day he was obviously well hard.
Am I just singularly unlucky in restaurants?
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I've been using menupages.ie to help me choose places to eat in Dublin, but from now on I'll just ask you.
Annie - recommend food critic in The Times, Tom Doorley, he's great.
Tom Dourley is a knob.
Ah Dario he's not bad, one of the better reviewers.
On that show, The Restaurant. Give me Paolo Tullio any day.
Restaurant standards are shite in Dublin - you should google brasserie66 and hark back to the days when planet potato (an uber blogger of this ward) took them on for exactly the reason you cite.
I've had nothing but good times in Dunne and Crescenzi's I have to admit..
Dario - I only read him have not had the pleasure of seeing him on the TV which is why I think he is fine.
TG - I know loads of people who have had the same issue in B66. Not sure why as they have so many staff they are falling over themselves. May just have been unlucky in D&C.
my take on this is that when you're in your early-mid 40s, it's just good that someone else is going to be doing the washing up
or maybe I've just sunk too low in the maintenance stakes and need to raise my game a little
love the thought of a restaurant named D&C
View - bugger bad letters to abbreviate but struggling with the spelling, think TG got it right, Dunne and Crescenzi's?
You can always eat directly from the M&S container or use paper plates to cut down on washing.
More reviews please flirty! The money charged for poor food and snotty service in Dublin is mind boggling!
Have you tried Fallon & Byrne? I found it good...
Thanks Gio - just need to find someone who is willing to pay for the meals so I can review :-)
66 is one of my top shit places to eat in dublin. crappy, woeful service, stupid gimmicks like metal buckets for the chips etc, and over priced very bog standard fare. Nicht gut.
If you're eating in those nosheries, you're not exactly unlucky as a diner, Flirty!
I'd recommend Chris Lowry of the Herald as a food critic, by the way.
K - loved it at the start but it seems to have gone completely wrong in the last few months.
JC - welcome back, haven't seen you in ages! missed you :-) 66 and D&C are ok in price by Dub standards, have to spend the dole on something, but Jacobs is a total rip off.
some food can be pretty dire alright. i've been asked to take down a review or two from my blog because they didn't agree with me and were getting ancy about it. some of it is just "thrun at ya" as my mother would say.
Rambling - how can they object to your opinion and experience, seems strange. Won't be regular feature on the blog so should be safe enough.
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