TASTING MENU - BY TABLE ONLY

5 Course - € 95, 8 Course - € 125 or 14 Course - € 185

8 Course Surprise - € 125

Fillet of Wild Sea Bass, Gobillard 1er Cru

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Slowly Roasted Baby Beetroot, Crisp Autumn Leaves

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Roast Bere Island King Scallop, Sugar Snaps, Squid Ink Sauce

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'Mi-cuit' of Foie Gras Rolled in New Season Truffle

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Forest Mushroom Terrine with Ver Jus

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Truffled Scrambled Egg

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Nettle and Thyme Sorbet

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Grilled Tipperary Beef with Pomme Maxime, Shallot and Red Wine Sauce

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Braised Guinea Fowl with its Own Clarified Juices

Cashel Blue Cheese

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Late Season Raspberries with Sable Biscuit

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Molten Valrhona Chocolate

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Fig Tart with Lavender Ice Cream

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Opera Chocolate with Coffee

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Whether you want a six-pack with that is entirely up to you.

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What kind of a people live on a damn island and don't eat fish?

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You don't get to talk about food.

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Now kindly, dùn do bhèal.

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@Calraigh: Can I interest you in a Black & Tan? Or maybe some Bushmills - a good proper whiskey?

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I could say a lot right now but that'd be my stereotype showing, wouldn't it?

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Offering a Black & Tan, expressing a preference for Bushmills over Jameson, and offering an overly proud Irish person a pint of Bass. I kind of made it obvious...

If s/he can't be bothered to spot when s/he's being poked with a stick, I'm going to keep poking.

As far as making fun of Irish cuisine, yes... there's more than potatoes.

There's stew. And kidneys. And blood pudding. And bacon and cabbage. And a couple types of sausage. And the damn soda bread. There's maybe a dozen or so other "Irish" dishes. And that's it. It's not a deep playbook.

And "Irish Breakfast" doesn't count. The Irish did not invent "bacon, eggs, and sausage and a side of potatoes" so stop calling it "Irish Breakfast".

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You realize you just gave the game away, right?

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In the game of "Angry Up The Other Guy On The Internets", the first person to tell the other one to fuck off loses. You've been taking bait all day. The fact is, I won the game a long time ago.

Personally, I figured that there is no greater insult to an Irishman than saying that Coldplay is better than U2. And that there is no better way to frustrate an Irishman than to do it through the internet. You NOT getting all in a lather over it is the first surprising thing you've said all day.

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The fact that you're a prejudiced asshole who thinks Irish people listen to U2 all day and worship at the altar of God of all fuckers Bono is actually fucking hilarious.

Nothing you've said is surprising. Because you're a boring fuck who likes criticizing people who are proud of their heritage as being ''overly proud''- none of that in the wonderfully neutral USA of course!

I would like to know one thing though- what was the first thing you decided you hated about Ireland/the Irish/ anything vaguely Irish-related?

If you have any time in your busy hate-filled-desperately-disguised-as-failed-sarcasm commenting schedule, that is.

Otherwise go back to drinking your Natural Ice and shovelling down Cheetos like a good little bigot.

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Sorry but the fact remains that the Famine occurred because of bad agricultural practices - specifically the folly of monoculture. Ironically, with Ireland's economy faltering now, Ireland is looking to fishing to bolster itself as it enters a serious recession.

It is not bigotry to point out historical fact. Bad agricultural practices and an unvaried diet contributed largely to the Famine. And you telling everyone that points it out to go to hell won't change that.

Enjoy your offal-based cuisine.

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And don't presume to tell me about Ireland's faltering economy, fuckface- I live here. It's going to take a hell of a lot more than a container full of fish to get us out of the present recession- that we're living in now.

I've never eaten offal in my life and I'm not about to start now.

Enjoy the rest of your lonely,ignorant existence, surrounded by bullshit and stained pictures of your ex.

Christ, she'd a lucky escape, didn't she?

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Or that when that practice formed a major portion of a population's diet, it exposed that population to starvation when the crop failed - pointing that out is bigotry?

Or positing that the reliance on monoculture was a major contributing factor to the Potato Famine by leading to widespread famine and malnutrition, that claim is bigotry?

I'll have to throw more speculation and conjecture into my comments instead of relying on fact. And maybe a heavy dose of profanity against anyone who dares disagree with me like the Irish gentleman.

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The ''heavy dose'' of profanity, ( oh, you puritan you!)was extremely useful I'd say. It's necessary when dealing with individuals such as yourself.

And who's this Irish gentleman you speak of?

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There once was a woman named Dowd

Who wrote everything she thought out loud

Obama's carrots were boiled

America recoiled

but AIG's plot remained unfoiled

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Maureen from the Times of New York,
With anscestors from County Cork,
Always tried in her column
To be funny, not solemn,
But found rarely well did it work.

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