Greetings folks!
Just back from a fabulous weekend in Dublin. Culinary highlights include a great lunch in Ely (the wine bar of Ely place fame) in Customs House Quay (a wonderful building close to the new Calatrava bridge) with Anna, John and their lovely boys Luca and Joe. Despite the number of people clearly having a business lunch the joint was incredibly child friendly! I was wholly indecisive (unlike me, normally David's predisposition) and so had two small portions of roast vegetable soup and gravadlax. The former was kind of disappointing, and was green. Roast vegetable soup doesn't seem right as 'green'! The gravadlax was delicious and served with an incredible potato salad, and phenomenal deep treacley brown bread. Accompanied by an inconspicuous glass of Fino, the meal was delish. Ely, for those who don't know is a wine bar originally serving simple, great quality food including meat from the owner Eric Robson's farm in the Burren. The wine is pretty damn good too!
We also hit the cafe in Avoca on Suffolk street for coffee, and almost lunch but desisted, sadly. Avoca epitomises child-friendly restaurants...a high-chair miraculously appeared as soon as we walked in, a tea-pot of boiling water arrived post-haste to heat his lunch and his peels of frustration were positively received by all and sundry! Our coffees were perfect although they did call my decaf, soya macchiato 'why bother'... understandably. Avoca has beautiful, healthy food that sadly we did not sample on this occasion!
And that's it for the mo. There are a few new joints locally that I am keen to try: Verveine fish restaurant in Milford-on-Sea, Brasserie Gerard on Lymington High Street and Piccolo Mondo in Milford-on-sea (new ownership committed to fine Italian food!). I'll let you know what they are like. Meanwhile the biscotti trail continues to blaze and I think I have an amaretti that might be pretty good. Getting some opinions tomorrow!
Ciao for now.
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