The Definitive Limerick Restaurant and Takeaway Thread

Tim76

naughtysmurf wrote: »

If you can get over the 1970’s decor, you’ll be grand

I kinda like it, old school Indian.

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zimmermania wrote: »

Achari.

Takeaway from Achari would be my call, just don't eat in there!

Jose Maria

Another vote for Bollywood Temple, also endorsed by my Indian neighbour

Achari - thumbs down awful food

banie01

Jose Maria wrote: »

Another vote for Bollywood Temple, also endorsed by my Indian neighbour

Opened a Limerick branch have they?

Pacifico

banie01 wrote: »

Opened a Limerick branch have they?

Yup in Corbally

bigpink

Pacifico wrote: »

Yup in Corbally

Where in Corbally

dashoonage

Hopefully not over the athlunkard bridge, cause youre going to have to move forums then lads.....

ChewBerecca

Had Handsome Burger at Jerry Flannerys earlier, was very good, definitely gives Locke Burger a run for its money and they have a bhaji option as a veggie burger instead of the normal veggie option.

ABEasy

https://www.limerickleader.ie/news/home/579504/limerick-restaurant-ordered-to-close-due-to-grave-and-immediate-danger-to-public-health.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook

Boojum ordered to close by food safety authority

Mod update - Was closed briefly due to a plumbing issue, and resolved since. I'm sure it's got the cleanest pipes in the business now.

Insect Overlord

What is it with burrito bars in Limerick and bad luck with plumbing?!

Tim76

Insect Overlord wrote: »

What is it with burrito bars in Limerick and bad luck with plumbing?!

I've had bad luck with my own plumbing after bad burritos before.

ChewBerecca

ABEasy wrote: »

https://www.limerickleader.ie/news/home/579504/limerick-restaurant-ordered-to-close-due-to-grave-and-immediate-danger-to-public-health.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook

Boojum ordered to close by food safety authority

Order was Sept 9th and it was lifted 2 days later.

I've had it since and its was still as good as ever.

banie01

Tim76 wrote: »

I've had bad luck with my own plumbing after bad burritos before.

Bad bum pish!

I mean ba dum tish

bigpink

Locke Burger openingin Castletroy

dominatinMC

bigpink wrote: »

Locke Burger openingin Castletroy

Amidst all the doom and gloom, that's some success story in fairness. Opened during a pandemic and then expanded, fair play

stefanovich

ChewBerecca wrote: »

Order was Sept 9th and it was lifted 2 days later.

I've had it since and its was still as good as ever.

Were they continuing to serve food with sewerage leaking into the basement? Is that where they stored food?

If so it would illustrate a complete lack of concern for their customer's health.

breezy1985

stefanovich wrote: »

Were they continuing to serve food with sewerage leaking into the basement? Is that where they stored food?

If so it would illustrate a complete lack of concern for their customer's health.

Sounds like most of the pubs I worked in over the years

ChewBerecca

stefanovich wrote: »

Were they continuing to serve food with sewerage leaking into the basement? Is that where they stored food?

If so it would illustrate a complete lack of concern for their customer's health.

The order was lifted within 48 hours of it being issued so I highly doubt the leak was as grave as the Leader was making it out to be. To be fair that area of the city tends to have ongoing issues with plumbing so its not unique to one premises.

I made the post as the original poster quoted a Leader article from over a month ago in a thread thats meant to be restaurant recommendations.

I've had Boojum umpteen times, and never once had a bad burrito.

bigpink

dominatinMC wrote: »

Amidst all the doom and gloom, that's some success story in fairness. Opened during a pandemic and then expanded, fair play

Prob do great in Castletroy has the crowd that will spend on it.

ABEasy

ChewBerecca wrote: »

The order was lifted within 48 hours of it being issued so I highly doubt the leak was as grave as the Leader was making it out to be. To be fair that area of the city tends to have ongoing issues with plumbing so its not unique to one premises.

I made the post as the original poster quoted a Leader article from over a month ago in a thread thats meant to be restaurant recommendations.

I've had Boojum umpteen times, and never once had a bad burrito.

OP here, FYI the leader article was published on the 8th of October, not a month ago. I posted it in a restaurant recommendations forum to warn potential customers that the FSA had shut them down. It obviously was not as trivial as you make out, but you know what do the Food Safety Authority know, you had upteen burritos so it must be fine.......

ChewBerecca

ABEasy wrote: »

OP here, FYI the leader article was published on the 8th of October, not a month ago. I posted it in a restaurant recommendations forum to warn potential customers that the FSA had shut them down. It obviously was not as trivial as you make out, but you know what do the Food Safety Authority know, you had upteen burritos so it must be fine.......

Thats grand, but it would be good to give some context to your post rather than insinuating a business is currently shut down indefinitely. Nobody wants to suffer through a sensationalist Leader article only to find the place opened back up less than 48 hours after it was shut a month ago.

People come on here for a quick browse, your post could have easily been misconstrued as they are currently closed.

Harambe

bigpink wrote: »

Locke Burger openingin Castletroy

Whereabouts?

ABEasy

ChewBerecca wrote: »

Thats grand, but it would be good to give some context to your post rather than insinuating a business is currently shut down indefinitely. Nobody wants to suffer through a sensationalist Leader article only to find the place opened back up less than 48 hours after it was shut a month ago.

People come on here for a quick browse, your post could have easily been misconstrued as they are currently closed.

Yeah, thats why i posted the link, all information for anyone interested was on the article, not sure what else i could do tbh

ChewBerecca

ABEasy wrote: »

Yeah, thats why i posted the link, all information for anyone interested was on the article, not sure what else i could do tbh

As someone said on another thread, friends don't let friends read the Leader. They hop on any story that can get them clicks.

In level 3 lockdown, unless you've had a genuine bad experience somewhere, I personally believe we should be doing as much as we can to encourage people to spend local, which means limiting bad publicity/"fake news" (please read in Trump voice) unless warranted.

If someone got food poisoning there, then fair enough, but no point publicising old news.

adaminho

ChewBerecca wrote: »

As someone said on another thread, friends don't let friends read the Leader. They hop on any story that can get them clicks.

In level 3 lockdown, unless you've had a genuine bad experience somewhere, I personally believe we should be doing as much as we can to encourage people to spend local, which means limiting bad publicity/"fake news" (please read in Trump voice) unless warranted.

If someone got food poisoning there, then fair enough, but no point publicising old news.

In fairness to the Leader the FSAI release their findings at the end of the month.

https://www.thejournal.ie/food-closures-boojum-5227560-Oct2020/

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/closure-order-served-on-popular-limerick-restaurant-over-concerns-about-sewage-and-wastewater-in-basement-39601852.html
It's more important to know where it's safe to eat rather than cover it up for Ad revenue.

ChewBerecca

adaminho wrote: »

In fairness to the Leader the FSAI release their findings at the end of the month.

https://www.thejournal.ie/food-closures-boojum-5227560-Oct2020/

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/closure-order-served-on-popular-limerick-restaurant-over-concerns-about-sewage-and-wastewater-in-basement-39601852.html
It's more important to know where it's safe to eat rather than cover it up for Ad revenue.

The FSAI determined it was safe to reopen Boojum on September 11th when it lifted the order. No article has even mentioned the basement was used for food storage or food preparation.

La Cucina closed its city centre premises today because it wasn't feasible to continue takeaways there. Lockdown will cause enough job losses without people misconstruing posts as somewhere is currently shut.

bigpink

ChewBerecca wrote: »

The FSAI determined it was safe to reopen Boojum on September 11th when it lifted the order. No article has even mentioned the basement was used for food storage or food preparation.

La Cucina closed its city centre premises today because it wasn't feasible to continue takeaways there. Lockdown will cause enough job losses without people misconstruing posts as somewhere is currently shut.

I was surprised La Cucina weren't faster doing takeaways during lockdown as they were surely use to it.Fair play to other places they were quick to change

ChewBerecca

bigpink wrote: »

I was surprised La Cucina weren't faster doing takeaways during lockdown as they were surely use to it.Fair play to other places they were quick to change

I think it might be because the kitchen area is quite tight, would have been hard to maintain distancing at the beginning when we were being told to keep 2m apart constantly.

The Castletroy one is open for takeaways but I think they have a more square/open kitchen area.

Treepole

Ye are gas, just because it's some brand name with a big social media influence everyone is rushing to defend them. The FSA don't close places for the laugh.

I don't remember posters rushing out to defend any of the kebab / pizza places that were closed down in recent years.

ChewBerecca

Treepole wrote: »

Ye are gas, just because it's some brand name with a big social media influence everyone is rushing to defend them. The FSA don't close places for the laugh.

I don't remember posters rushing out to defend any of the kebab / pizza places that were closed down in recent years.

The posts about it being closed were misleading and one was contradictory to actual evidence. The place was closed and reopened within 48 hours over a month ago due to a plumbing issue in a section of the basement (which seems very common in Limerick City Centre based at the amount of other businesses being mentioned here on Boards alone in the last few years which have not been subjected to the same critique), not due to unsafe food preparation or food storage areas as the FSAI would make mention of the same in their closure notice.

If the same posts were made about another business I ordered from and never had issue with, I'd make sure to correct people's posts if they were not clear or could be misconstrued because misleading information is just that.

We're literally living in a time where one extra order each evening could be the difference between somewhere staying open (and keeping people employed) or closing.