One of Dublin's best kept brunch secrets!…read more Treated like royalty from the moment we stepped inside. Staff extremely friendly & knowledgable in every aspect of the menu. Food was simply superb but a special mention needs to be reserved for the Prawn Eggs Benedict. One of the best dishes I've ever had and I don't say that lightly. Monkstown may be a trek as it sits outside Dublin City. Le Plancha is worth the trip!

I love going to this restaurant, good atmosphere, friendly staff and a great specials board!…read more Menu is kept short purposely to keep quality up which is a change from most restaurants in blackrock and very much appreciated! Early bird which can be supplemented with the specials board works really well. Overall they punch above their weight and provide excellent food at a fair price.

I looked forward to trying this cafe/bistro, but I was really disappointed. I left regretting that…read moreI went there. We were absolutely ripped off and misled here. I'm not sure which is worse but neither is acceptable and we certainly won't return. First the food. I ordered the scampi from the lunch menu. This came with salad & chips. It is priced high end at £14. I thought for 14 quid I'd be served quality scampi in a light or even tempura batter, after all it's a bistro. Scampi includes various culinary preparations of certain cold water crustaceans, commonly the Norway lobster, also known as langoustine or Dublin Bay prawns. I mean we were within a 5 minute walk of the sea here, we are surrounded by the North Atlantic Ocean and just half an hour from the harbours of Kilkeel & Annalong. Proper scampi by the ton is right on our doorstep with very few food miles involved. No. This dish contained 7 pre frozen warm water Pacific king prawns in a heavy, greasy batter. These prawns aren't scampi by any stretch of the imagination. Any chef worth his salt will know this. I could go to a local supermarket and buy a bag of frozen Whitby scampi for £2. I'd certainly get a dozen or so and 39% of the Whitby product is scampi. These warm water prawns do not come close to the sweet taste of scampi either. They are usually intensively farmed in Thailand. The sort of warm water prawn you usually get 10 or more of from a Chinese takeaway, with rice or chips, for around £6 and the Chinese price includes curry, salt & chilli or sweet and sour sauce. I tore off most of the excessive greasy batter. No thanks folks this is grim greasy-spoon fare. The chips were alright but I couldn't rate them as very good either. I ate most of the chips because I was hungry. The fact is that £8 would be a realistic price for this meal. The fact is that had I known I would be served warm water prawns I'd have taken soup. Had I eaten the quantity of greasy batter I'd certainly have been bloated. The tartare sauce isn't home made either unless you define out of a jar as such. I don't. Any chef worth his salt likely wouldn't either. My wife had a chicken club type sandwich with salad & chips at £9. Again easily overpriced by £2. She said there was a good portion of chicken; and she left half of her chips. It's this that raises this review to 2 star albeit reluctantly. Second the service. Terrible. We were there over an hour and 10 minutes. It was a full 30 minutes from we placed our order to the time the food was put before us. Let's put this into context here it was fish & chips and a sandwich with chips folks. We ordered two coffees. We said that the coffees could be held until we were well through our meal. The waitress forgot my coffee order. She asked twice more and when we did tell her we were ready for our coffees she went off and didn't return with coffee rather we sat and watched her as she instead began taking credit card payments from customers who wanted to leave. We wanted to leave at this point too. Anyway she eventually returned from the bar area which was littered with dirty dishes (we sat with our dirty dishes for over 10 minutes) to take our coffee order for at least the third time. We had enough and just wanted to leave. We regretted going there. I wanted to tell the waitress exactly how awful the food and service was but the place was full of customers so I decided to be kind and stay silent, cancel the coffee order, hand over £23 and get out the door soonest. We got our coffees and ice cream in Maud's at the other end of town. I noticed they serve the tiny bottles of Coca Cola. About 200ml so the customer is being ripped off here too. Their free wifi kept crashing too. A SABENA visit - such a bloody experience, never again.

We we're in a group of 8 and were quickly seated. I had the Sirloin Pot Roast, it was worth 5 stars…read morealone. All 8 of our guests really liked their dishes. Friendly service. We'll be back!

Firstly this take away only place appears to be open for years now but I only spotted it a few…read moreweeks ago. I decided that I'd try it out but the first time after deciding to try it there was a queue extending out the door; but I think it might have been one of those religious - only eat fish - days. As it happened my first visit was accidental as I just happened to be quarter of a mile from it at dinner time and passing by it for home. There is some parking outside it but the road is heavily trafficked and you need to be careful as you reverse out. The queue was small in number, about four in front of me, as I placed my cod n chips order at a whopping £7.50. These are London prices. In fact at this price I cold enjoy (and very recently did enjoy) a sit in Harry Ramsden's cod, chips and mushy peas in the Lowry centre, Manchester. I noticed the lack of interaction between staff and customers. Once an order was placed with payment and salt and vinegar confirmed we stand back in silence waiting for our food. No craic, no real engagement between customers and staff. The cod I got was ok but thinner than I'd like. The good thing was that the fish batter which wasn't too greasy survived until I got home, without becoming soggy. The chips were good too but as I said the Harry's meal was streets ahead, particularly in quality and the size of good cod. Would I return here. No. I'd rather drive to the Pit Stop, Kilkeel for a superb sit in cod & chips that puts this food well in the shade and for less money as their sit-in provides a soft drink.

Good fish and chips and server was super polite. Asked for another plate to share and was given…read moreanother hot plate to share. The genoacino was trully exceptional omg it was damn good. This is very recommended. I would love to come back to try its burger next time. Till the next time i come back. Cheers!

We thought we'd try it, having been to the PitStop in Kilkeel just a few nights ago. The…read moredifferences are stark. Service here was lax, the seating wasn't comfy, the fish and chips were not as well-cooked and certainly not as crisp, hot and tasty, but the worst of all was that it was almost double the price when we factor in the fact that the Kilkeel deal includes a soft drink. I really dislike being ripped off. The price difference would cover the fuel cost for the extra 24 mile round trip. Far better fish bites, chips and a soft drink was £3 a head cheaper in PitStop Kilkeel. The plates here also had a small amount of salad which was incongruous on the plate given the fact we were eating deep-fried, battered food. If we had ordered a fish and chip meal deal we would have had tea, bread and butter. The addition of these nominal cost tea & bread would have required another fiver a head. In short and sadly it's poor value and it's also below average quality and we will not return. We were also the only sit in diners - quelle surprise.

I've visited a few times with a friend of mine and we're arranging to revisit in the new year…read more Excellent food, excellent service and the ambience is amazing. The pricing is pretty reasonable for the food. What more could you ask for!

Good local pub, decent pint of stout, good food and friendly staff, what more could you ask for....read more

This is a nice hidden away new little cafe. Really here to facilitate the local companies in the…read morebusiness park but is open to all. So in saying that it has business hours. The have a big area for indoor eating and the what is call a sun lounge. A big room with big windows that lets in loads of light. Great little cafe to have as there is nothing else near in the area. Coffee was good but alias I was there too late in the day for food

This is my favorite place to eat in Dundalk!…read more My other half and I just LOVE it. The food is absolutely superb. Portion sizes are great. The staff are extremely friendly and helpful. Its great value. We had a starter and main along with one drink each and it was just under €50. Excellent value. The decor and atmosphere are just lovely.

We were invited guests and had been told that this place was as good as Fitzpatrick's without the…read morehigh cost. It's not as good. That said there were lots of five star elements here but while I settled on four stars I've knocked one off for reasons that follow. If you hit Fitzpatricks on a good day it's exceptional and the difference in cost between these two places is not significant. The key problem with the food put before me was lack of proper seasoning. I had scallops to start and they were very good indeed. The seasoning in this dish relied on chorizo 'crumb' and chorizo featured in other dishes. It added to taste but not enough so chef needs to be brave. There was no sea salt on the table and when you offer crab claws, prawns pil pil and scallops then tables should have sea salt, black pepper and tabasco as norm with smoked paprika, if required. My mushroom pasta main was a generous portion but very poor tasting. The pasta wasn't fresh but a dried product - the quality could have been better so go for the higher cost bronze die cut pasta. My main was not an enjoyable eat. I left half of it - there was not enough cream, not enough butter and not enough high quality parmesan and just not seasoned; great parmesan alone with sea salt and pepper would have greatly benefited the dish. My wife had the Caesar salad and a hake main and she thought both very good. One of the party shared a sage croquette and it tasted excellent. The restaurant was bright, airy and warm but the problem with seating is that four of us were at a small corner table so it wasn't as comfortable as I'd like. What I really disliked was one of the party - a customer that makes paydays - asked for onion rings with his main and he was refused. Yet onion rings come with their steaks. What's the problem - just not good enough really so a star off but I'd still like to know why not and I know Fitzpatrick's certainly wouldn't refuse? The staff were ace and very attentive. We didn't have desserts and the cappuccino was just about ok and needs focus to improve which isn't hard. Fitzpatrick's do do great coffee. We will likely return as two where I can be more fussy about the food. In fact I look forward to it.

We just recently heard about this place from friends when we were out to dinner with them. They…read morejust happened to drive by it and gave it a try on the spur of the moment. We just happened to be passing by too about a week later and also decided to give it a go. So we got a fish & chips - cod of course - and the food was top notch. The batter was light and crisp and not greasy. The cod was Persil white, moist and chunky. It was a good portion too. The chips were perfectly cooked too exactly as they should be. The meal was £5. Now there was a downside as I was not offered salt or vinegar. Imagine fish & chips without salt and vinegar. I didn't see either about so while I would ordinarily knock a star off for such howlers I'm not going to because the quality of food and portion size for a fiver is a fair deal and it's only right to be fair right back but I would recommend they invest in salt and vinegar. Finally, as I waited for my meal the guy behind the counter was making what looked like pizza bases and firing them into an oven. They came out like a dinner plate sized cross between a nan bread and a pitta bread and more toward pitta. These were the base for chicken and lamb kebabs and this type of food is just so appealing when it's fresh and good.

bloody lovely food. mighty pizza. scrum-diddly-umptious hogies. fabulous chicken nuggets…read more spectacular chicken tenders and goujons. if u want a heavenly dinner tasty bites is the place to go yeooo. employees are also fab