Monday, June 30, 2008

A new local?

This weekend, we decided that we needed to explore our new area a bit. So far, we've been going to places that we know and mostly driving there. So, John had the suggestion since it was a nice evening to walk into the downtown area of our new town and see where we could find to eat. He knew of an "Irish bar" that wasn't that far away and off we went.

After a 15 minute stroll, we were at the pub and sitting outside in their "beer garden" area looking at their menu. I smiled at it since they had two Irish dishes on it: a full Irish and fish and chips. The menu was very beef heavy with only one chicken dish (besides a couple salads). We ordered home made mozzarella sticks as a starter/appetizer (very tasty) and John also got Guiness cheese soup. That was very rich and since it had a lot of sausage in it, I let him eat more of it. I had a chicken sandwich for my main and John had a Paddy Melt. They were tasty and the best part was that they were served with chips, not fries! I was very happy about this since I was missing the Porterhouse chips.

I don't think that they had dessert, but we were too stuffed to get it anyway. However, the chips made me miss sticky toffee pudding (I need to learn to make this myself).

We'll definitely be heading back there.

3 comments:

Yvonne said...

Irish bars outside of Ireland are always a little entertaining, aren't they?

Jenn Sutherland said...

but of course you know that the Celtic Knot has a killer sticky toffee pudding, right?! Not walking distance, but mighty tasty. They sell it at our wine shop too. :)

Anonymous said...

I have a Delia sticky toffee pudding recipe arond here somewhere...(http://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/little-sticky-toffee-puddings-with-pecan-toffee-sauce,804,RC.html). Never used the pecans, but it's up to you!