Last time I even thought about eating in Sinnotts was during Euro 08, a Poland game. I suppose I should have known what to expect, but I will not pay for food on a paper plate.
The Morgue in Templeogue has to be the shout. Farmer, you are really pissing against the wind talking about carveries in the city centre to be honest. They are few and far between, but seen as you have mentioned coppers and food in the same sentence I feel I should do you a favour and point you in the direction of MacTurcaills. The only reason they do carvery is to cater for all the bogger old bill across the road, and it’s comfortably the best carvery in town, as it would have to be, because let’s face it, if it wasn’t there would be a Clancy Wiggum type situation, probably involving big screens getting shot at.
I think it is very unfair of you to limit this to just Dublin farmer…can us country lads share out opinion on carvery lunches we have had as well…I would consider myself a great judge of a carvery
for quantity, Diceys is hard bet…absolute food mountain…
quality- The Morgue in templeogue of a sunday but is a bit pricey…
loosely on the topic Doheny & nesbitts do the finest hot chicken wrap your likely to get…
Dicey’s - meh
Fagans Carvery - Very nice
Fagans A la carte - Savage
Sinotts - Savage feed. Had to stop going there for lunch though cause i couldn’t do a tap for the evening after it.
It’s nice to get a decent portion but quality is surely far more important. What’s the point in having a huge big mound of shite-like tasting food overflowing off your plate? Boggers I know tend to rave about Q Bar and McTurcaill’s though.
celtic tiger food, our grandmothers would be horrified, paying up to 13 squid to que up for a plate of meat and 2 veg that has been drying out and ready since just after 10 oclock mass.
i never feel right after a carvery, ill be honest and say it regularly will go through me in about an hour, i think its the cheap butter thats fucked into the mash 5 hours before its given to you.
veg cooked in the morning and left on the heat all day is pointless, its tastless and has the qualities of a cornflakes box.
i like my meat a bit moist, my beef rare, my turkey not dried out.
its no better than the prepacked sambo imo, who knows what the fuck is in it in some places, id say we would be horrified if we saw some of the ‘cooks’ preparing it every morning
i would have always said a carvery is quantity first. quality second…that why 90% of people who eat them are blokes…go to a restaurant if you want quality nosh…
used to go to rodys saturday lunchtimes for the carvery and hang around watching the soccer for the day then. other times it would be over to slatterys for a fry first and watch a couple of games there. O’Neills is a great spot too in fairness.
As someone pointed out, quantity as much as quality is important. go to a restaurant for tasy well prepared and presented food. Carvery is about getting a meal quickly and getting stuck in.
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As someone pointed out, quantity as much as quality is important. go to a restaurant for tasy well prepared and presented food. Carvery is about getting a meal quickly and getting stuck in.[/quote]
thats exactly it…although i would agree with some of HBVs points, nothing worse than a bad carvery when the veg is like cardboard and the spud is as solid as fuck…
Smyths in limerick have a decent enough carvery as has Scotts off the dock road…got it a few times in the lock and it was hit or miss…