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Best spud dinner in town?

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  • 21-10-2014 10:40pm
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    big.bird84
    Registered Users Posts: 31 ✭


    Opinions on where to get the best spud dinner/carvery in the city please? :-)


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    Creative Juices
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    The Skeff used to do a great carvery. Haven't been there for a couple of years though.


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    D Trent
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    https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=170651049692291&refsrc=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fpages%2FFinnegans%2F170651049692291&_rdr
    Don't think they do carvery though


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    big.bird84
    Registered Users Posts: 31 ✭big.bird84


    D Trent wrote:
    Don't think they do carvery though

    That's grand. Doesn't have to be carvery. Thanks for the link :-)


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    ben.schlomo
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    Imperial have always done a solid carvery, as does Crowes i think.


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    ArtyC
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    Westwood hotel have a nice carvery :)


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    Ludikrus
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    I haven't tried it yet, but Galway Bay Hotel won best carvery in Connaught.


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    biko
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    Frends, best spuds in town imo.


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    Links234
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    Creative Juices wrote: »
    The Skeff used to do a great carvery. Haven't been there for a couple of years though.

    Can confirm, Skeff still does a good carvery


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    spurshero
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    plus 1 for crowes and frends


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    MadYaker
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    The Park House? I hate carvery dinners but I've heard that place is good.


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    spurshero
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    MadYaker wrote: »
    The Park House? I hate carvery dinners but I've heard that place is good.

    How can u hate Carvery dinners. ? Park house hasn't done Carvery in 10 years . Table service it's nice but more expensive


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    Links234
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    spurshero wrote: »
    How can u hate Carvery dinners. ?

    Easily I'd imagine. It comes down to taste, I have to be in the right mood to go for a carvery, a good turkey & ham dinner with stuffing, roast potatoes, veg and lashings of gravy is heaven sometimes, but other times I might feel it's far too stodgy. A friend of mine can't stand carveries because it reminds her of boarding school dinners, and wouldn't even entertain the notion of going for one.

    Then you have to account that a lot of people would've had bad experiences of carveries that completely put them off. I used to hate them growing up, because they were the only places elderly relatives would entertain and some of the places I was dragged to as a kid were horrible. Roast beef that's been frazzled, veg that's been reduced to mush, lumpy mash. Wasn't until I was older I ate in some decent places I realized just how good a carvery dinner could be, I was just being taken to crappy places before.

    But just have a look at this thread from AH a while back, there's a lot who can't stand it.


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    Creative Juices
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    spurshero wrote: »
    How can u hate Carvery dinners. ? Park house hasn't done Carvery in 10 years . Table service it's nice but more expensive

    To be fair most carverys taste the same. Food for the masses. You rarely sit back from a carvery and say "wow that was a fantastic meal", you would usually say "that did the job".
    It is a very slight step down from a wedding dinner.


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    Joe Duffy..
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    The Quays.


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    syklops
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    spurshero wrote: »
    How can u hate Carvery dinners. ?

    At home nothing. In a restaurant, the joint of meat sat under a warming lamp for 3 plus hours already, roast potatoes like hockey pucks. Two slices of meat. Yorkshire puddings, again sat under heat lamps for who knows how long. Droopy, old carrots. Bland, meaningless gravy that tastes the same where ever you go.

    Carvery out? No thanks, not when I can make better food, at home for less money.


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    galwaycyclist
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    Trappers on Tuam Road


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    Webbs
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    syklops wrote: »
    At home nothing. In a restaurant, the joint of meat sat under a warming lamp for 3 plus hours already, roast potatoes like hockey pucks. Two slices of meat. Yorkshire puddings, again sat under heat lamps for who knows how long. Droopy, old carrots. Bland, meaningless gravy that tastes the same where ever you go.

    Carvery out? No thanks, not when I can make better food, at home for less money.

    Couldnt agree more. The words 'great carvery', oxymoron in my opinion


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    big.bird84
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    Webbs wrote:
    Couldnt agree more. The words 'great carvery', oxymoron in my opinion


    Each to their own!


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    syklops wrote: »

    , not when I can make better food, at home for less money.

    And an awful lot more effort though.


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    whatlliwear
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    Park House :)


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    kefir32
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    whatlliwear wrote: »
    Park House :)

    where time stood still especially where the food menu and decor is concerned lol


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    Tarzana2
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    syklops wrote: »
    Bland, meaningless gravy that tastes the same where ever you go.

    Meaningless? The wrong word, surely? :pac:


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    syklops
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    Aydin Brave Registration wrote: »
    And an awful lot more effort though.

    Its well worth it though.
    Meaningless? The wrong word, surely?

    If its bland and generic then meaningless is the perfect word.


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    Tarzana2
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    syklops wrote: »
    If its bland and generic then meaningless is the perfect word.

    Alrighty then!


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    El_Dangeroso
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    Tarzana2 wrote: »
    Meaningless? The wrong word, surely? :pac:

    I lolled at the idea of someone deriving meaning from gravy :pac:


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    whatlliwear
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    kefir32 wrote: »
    where time stood still especially where the food menu and decor is concerned lol

    Agreed- but their Spud dinners are yummy :)


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    galwaycyclist
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    El_Dangeroso wrote: »
    I lolled at the idea of someone deriving meaning from gravy :pac:

    Gravy only truly has meaning when it is all over everything, the meat, the roast potatoes, the mash, the potato croquette, the yorkshire pud, the carrotsandparsnips, everything


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    Tarzana2
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    galwaycyclist wrote: »
    carrotsandparsnips

    All one word. Love it! :D :pac:


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