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    The Greedy Goose

    4.3 (26 reviews)
    PriceyIrish
    Closed 5:00 pm - 11:00 PM

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    Moderate noise
    Good for kids

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    Glazed pork belly

    This place is a GEM! Charming and intimate atmosphere, fantastic service and absolutely delicious food! Surf & Turf is one of the many out of this world bites! If you're in Malahide, don't miss out on this culinary delight. And the warm Sticky Toffee Pudding... I must have died and gone to heaven!

    Prawns
    Jennie C.

    The Greedy Goose offers tasting menus; all a la carte plates are also in tasting menu size. I think 2-3 plates is more than enough for one person though. I ordered the roast beef beignets, Thai style fish cakes, and Hake on pepper chorizo risotto. The roast beef beignets were really unique - you get balls of roast beef fried drizzled with some bernaise mayo sauce. It was pretty good but more of an appetizer size. The Thai style fish cakes were the highlight of my meal - I really enjoyed the tangy sweet chili sauce and wasabi mayo. There was a bit too much fresh ginger for my liking, but that's just me. The Hake was very fresh and cooked perfectly. I liked the risotto, but it didn't amaze me. I do think that the flavors worked really well together though. Good unique food and a nice atmosphere - glad we stumbled upon here.

    Surf and Turf
    Zara N.

    First things first, I'm a picky eater. Now I don't mean that I'm shy when it comes to trying unfamiliar foods but I do love to pick at a selection of smaller dishes rather than plough through a big main meal. It comes as no surprise then that I love tasting menus, tapas, japas, bites...anything that means I can try as many dishes as possible at one time basically! So I really loved the concept of this restaurant where you pick three or four smaller dishes instead of a starter and main. If eating a deux, this means you can potentially taste 6 or 8 dishes (once your companion isn't a Joey Tribiani type who refuses to share food, obviously!) It's just my favourite way to eat so this restaurant was always going to float my boat, but the food is all kinds of amazing to boot, so I can't imagine anyone leaving here unhappy. I had three dishes...the Dublin bay prawns (honestly the best prawns I've ever had - they were whoppers and bursting with sweet, juicy meat), the lemon and caper chicken escalope and surf and turf. Each of the three dishes was faultless, executed beautifully and looked very pretty on the plate. I would be tempted to say that the best things come in small packages; but for tasting plates the portions are actually very substantial. As the name encourages and as we were feeling pretty gluttonous, it being a lazy Sunday evening and all, we both opted for desserts...greedy geese indeed! The chocolate cake I had was served with a vat of uber rich chocolate sauce, now, I LOVE chocolate but this was mega decadence! Still managed to polish it off though which is is a little worrying on my part! To sum it up, the wine, décor, food and service were all fantastic and this is now definitely my go-to restaurant in Malahide. It's also great value -we got six plates, two desserts, two glasses of prosecco and a carafe of wine for under a €100...who knew being greedy could be so easy on the pocket.

    Calamari
    Darren C.

    An inspired choice for Valentine's (even if I do say so myself haha) Definitely my best dining experience of 2016 thus far. I loved literally everything about this place. Decorating, staff, style of service and that old chestnut.....the food. The Valentine's menu included 3 tasting dishes, dessert and a glass of prosecco for €35. I think it was amazing value to be honest as each dish served was extremely generous in size and quality. I went for the deep fried calamari, Thai style fish cakes, the slow braised Tipperary beef and ended with the honeycomb cheesecake. The wasabi mayo was delicious with the fish cakes. Although I didn't love the garlic and parsley buckwheat salad but that was more about personal taste than anything else. Highly recommended then!!

    Trio of Pork
    Keith O.

    Did a quick online search as I as looking for a nice quick breakfast whilst in Malahide, first thing that came up was The Greedy Goose, I was intrigued by the name. Reviews seemed positive too do I thought why not, it was getting close to lunch time anyway. Menu is different, lots of smaller "taster" portions, not like tapas but just smaller than a main course. It's also priced extremely well, €15.95 for a 3 course lunch time special, you really can't go wrong! Food is amazing too, can't say enough about it. I had bruschetta for starts, then a fillet of beef wrapped in bacon, then a trio of pork with ice cream to finish. I came out a very very happy bunny! Would definitely recommend to all

    Bruschetta
    K T.

    Talk about great bang for your buck! We walked all over Malahide and worked up quite an appetite. We'd passed the Greedy Goose at a time when we weren't so hungry and by the time we were done the nearly 5 mile walk all over town, hunger had made us stir crazy! The menu looked great and price was right! I went for the tasting menu with the bruschetta (just delicious), fish and shoestring fries as "chips" (light and flakey and not at all greasy and heavily battered) and the chocolate gateau with vanilla bean ice cream. I had a glass of the Cabernet Sauvignon. The whole meal came up to 21.50 euros! Totally worth every penny and delicious to boot. The view was beautiful. The ambience was great. The service was good too. Excellent place!

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    Perfect portions and everything I've tried was great. Mussels and surf and turf are must try!

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    Delicious food from an unusual 'taster' menu. Staff not so great but overall loved this cosy little spot!

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    Mc Governs

    3.8(8 reviews)
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    Myself and my family made a booking on Saturday for Saturday evening, (which I was surprised to get…read morea booking at such late notice) We arrived and was given a table at the back corner, we ordered drinks and food Our starters arrived, which were nice, but then waited 10 to 15 minutes before r plates where cleared when the mains came My husband had ordered a ribeye steak €32. It was bland and quite fatty for a ribeye No one came to check our table And he ended up, just putting garlic mayo on top with the sauce that was on his plate to give us some sort of taste. My daughter got a tagliatelle which was very smoky Yet again, nobody checked the table. It was probably another 10 to 15 minutes for our plates to b cleared The waitress asked was everything okay my husband said about the steak been bland and fatty also my daughters dish was only 1/2 eaten .....she apologised and that was that !!!!!! Yet again we waited about 15 mins B4 I had to call over the manageress to ask for the bill ( we hadn't even been offered dessert menu and we were out celebrating a bday which I'd have said if we were offers dessert) I told her that the service had been really poor and she shrugged her shoulders and said sorry when the bill came It was €192 and my husband put €200 in the wallet and went to get the car. The girl took the wallet and never returned the €8. We were leaving it for a tip, even though I don't think it was deserved, but we weren't given an option as wallet wasn't returned to table I emailed the restaurant on my return home and received a phone call from the manageress the following evening She explained that they were very busy which I had said was great However, that wasn't my problem. We were paying guests also there was 3/4 tables free around us so they weren't really that busy, but when I said that she said they had been busy from 12 o'clock that day yet again, not my problem and then she went onto say cause of were we were seated they They tend not to see us !!!! I had booked for myself and my parents and sisters to go there for Christmas lunch in 2 days time and in my email I had sent I said I wanted to cancel the booking and on the phone call the manageress ask me, would I come in and allow For the staff to attend to us better than they had done on the Saturday night and I said absolutely no way. Unfortunately Mc Goverins has lost its magic and I could tell one from been able to get a booking two hours before our arranged reservation and two there was tables on the Saturday night before Christmas tables available around us when we were having a meal and when we were leaving. For this reason, I will most definitely will not be back to Mc Governs

    Early bird menus is great value, 25 Euro for 3 courses. I got the Chicken Liver Pate it was the…read morebest pate I ate ever. For my mains I had Mexican burger with skinny fries, the burger had guacamole, sour cream, salsa, tomato and lettuce it was delicious. For dessert I had chocolate and hazelnut brownie with ice cream, again this was delicious. If you choose a burger it's only 20 euros for a 3 course meal. The place was full and the staff were very friendly. We will defo be back.

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