The Sunday lunch menu offers Connemara mussels with roasted cherry tomato sauce and grilled sourdough amongst a trio of starters; mains include a dry-aged striploin of beef with Yorkshire pudding, creamed potatoes and roast carrots or perhaps bacon with apple and fennel braised cabbage. Vegetarians will be content with a chickpea ratatouille with stewed tomatoes, courgette and aubergine in roasted red pepper and cherry tomato sauce, served with pitta bread.
The evening menu starts mid-week from 5pm, and majors on comfort food classics from a double beef burger to a choice of striploin, ribeye or steak frites. Fish also features with scampi frites, fish and chips and sea bream.
The kid’s menu strikes a good balance, with mussels and chips, ratatouille and bangers and mash.
The drinks menu offers an excellent cocktail choice and plenty of wines by the glass, from about €8. Sparkling cocktails include a cucumber Sangria with Hendricks gin and a peach Prosecco Sangria.
When the new owners bought the property in 2021, they announced that long-term plans are to transform the defunct carpark space out back (who drives to the pub anymore?) into a boutique hotel - great news for a heritage seaside village boasting some of the prettiest coastline of the city’s southside. With the help of an ambitious kitchen and enthusiastic front-of-house team, they are on track to earn the outpouring of local love shown to them on re-opening this village landmark.
