New businesses

PARlance

Lukekul wrote: »

This is the new cafe beside the old post office

Any idea who is behind it? Seems to be more of a restaurant as opposed to a coffee shop cafe.

nuac

PARlance wrote: »

Any idea who is behind it? Seems to be more of a restaurant as opposed to a coffee shop cafe.

Used to visit the previous place there. All the best to them.

iluvfatfrogs

PARlance wrote: »

Any idea who is behind it? Seems to be more of a restaurant as opposed to a coffee shop cafe.

Appears to be ex Harlequin staff, possibly a polish owner?

Xenji

Walked past it around lunchtime, not many in it but in fairness the weather is not great today and they will probably get more in on a weekday with all the clerical staff around the area, no menu outside of it so not sure of the food, but looked nice and bright inside, I think that it is Alan Lane who is behind it.

Westernyelp

Was in that new cafe yesterday. Great food, service and presentation. Credit where it is due. Hope they do well.

PARlance

Westernyelp wrote: »

Was in that new cafe yesterday. Great food, service and presentation. Credit where it is due. Hope they do well.

What's the menu like Wyelp? Is it more of a restaurant than cafe?

Westernyelp

PARlance wrote:

What's the menu like Wyelp? Is it more of a restaurant than cafe?

Brunch menu in the morning with full irish. Pancakes with a good variety of fresh toppings etc. Porridge other bits. Lunch menu has baked spuds sandwiches, specials. I just had a quick look at that so not sure what else. The table settings cups etc are a bit nicer than usual cafe style. So not sure if there is an evening menu also. Prices are good too. Will investigate further!

PARlance

Westernyelp wrote: »

Brunch menu in the morning with full irish. Pancakes with a good variety of fresh toppings etc. Porridge other bits. Lunch menu has baked spuds sandwiches, specials. I just had a quick look at that so not sure what else. The table settings cups etc are a bit nicer than usual cafe style. So not sure if there is an evening menu also. Prices are good too. Will investigate further!

Cheers, will take a trip up in the morning myself.

PARlance

http://www.con-telegraph.ie/news/roundup/articles/2017/09/07/4145580-pontoon-hotel-investors-outline-their-plans/

An update on Healy's Pontoon

thekooman

PARlance wrote: »

http://www.con-telegraph.ie/news/roundup/articles/2017/09/07/4145580-pontoon-hotel-investors-outline-their-plans/

An update on Healy's Pontoon

Can't wait... will be somewhere nice to go near home. heard that they are having awful hassle with planning as to whether its a listed building or not.

martyos121

Mayo Street Food Festival on this Sunday from noon to 6pm on Main Street. All dishes priced between €5 and €7 and provided by Appetite, The Bay Leaf, Bar One, Mulroys, House of Plates, Dining Room, Rua, The Yew Tree and De Búrca butchers.

They have a Facebook page here for more information, still looking for more volunteers I think. Really nice idea IMO, hope it draws a nice crowd.

naughto

martyos121 wrote: »

Mayo Street Food Festival on this Sunday from noon to 6pm on Main Street. All dishes priced between €5 and €7 and provided by Appetite, The Bay Leaf, Bar One, Mulroys, House of Plates, Dining Room, Rua, The Yew Tree and De Búrca butchers.

They have a Facebook page here for more information, still looking for more volunteers I think. Really nice idea IMO, hope it draws a nice crowd.

The weather for Sunday is shocking bad it will def effect the crowd

Xenji

naughto wrote: »

The weather for Sunday is shocking bad it will def effect the crowd

I would try and go early, the weather will start deteriorating quite quickly after 3, I would say the yellow warning will be moved up to orange later today.

6541

Shame really. Also I notice where are the Chinese and Indian food stalls ?

naughto

Would not be surprised if it was cancelled

Xenji

naughto wrote: »

Would not be surprised if it was cancelled

Was down earlier, despite the weather conditions you had about 100 people milling about, they may need to rethink the placing of the main tent if it is ran again next year, it was quite hard to get around it and see what was being made, but they have a good basis to build upon if they choose to make it an annual event.

PARlance

Very good event for a first run out. Plenty to build upon for future years. The weather didn't put too much of a dampener on it.

Lukekul

I've heard that the Spice House Indian restaurant on Main Street is being replaced with Dawat Indian, who have restaurants in Claremorris and Carrick on Shannon.

naughto

Lukekul wrote: »

I've heard that the Spice House Indian restaurant on Main Street is being replaced with Dawat Indian, who have restaurants in Claremorris and Carrick on Shannon.

They where putting up new signs there yesterday

corsav6

Lukekul wrote: »

I've heard that the Spice House Indian restaurant on Main Street is being replaced with Dawat Indian, who have restaurants in Claremorris and Carrick on Shannon.

It's a shame, the food was excellent in the spice house.
It's a grand takeaway, but not a nice place to sit down. Upstairs really needs to be gutted out and modernised.

FaganJr

corsav6 wrote:

It's a shame, the food was excellent in the spice house. It's a grand takeaway, but not a nice place to sit down. Upstairs really needs to be gutted out and modernised.

Spice house was septic in my opinion, each to their own I suppose! Best of luck to new setup!

PARlance

corsav6 wrote: »

It's a shame, the food was excellent in the spice house.
It's a grand takeaway, but not a nice place to sit down. Upstairs really needs to be gutted out and modernised.

I thought the food was very good at the start but it went downhill very very fast imo. Just felt corners were being cut with their ingredients as can happen restaurants that aren't doing as well as expected.

Only ever got takeaways. Restaurants with carpets belong in the 80's.

nuac

PARlance wrote: »

I thought the food was very good at the start but it went downhill very very fast imo. Just felt corners were being cut with their ingredients as can happen restaurants that aren't doing as well as expected.

Only ever got takeaways. Restaurants with carpets belong in the 80's.

Why do suggest that?

corsav6

PARlance wrote: »

I thought the food was very good at the start but it went downhill very very fast imo. Just felt corners were being cut with their ingredients as can happen restaurants that aren't doing as well as expected.

Only ever got takeaways. Restaurants with carpets belong in the 80's.

I got a takeaway about once a week when they started out and it was excellent. We gave it a break for a few months as we were getting married but got a few again during the summer and again I was impressed.

I heard from a few people that the food had gone downhill so maybe they chanced cutting corners and realised when it was too late, either way it's irrelevant now, good luck to the new crowd in there, we'll give them a chance.

PARlance

nuac wrote: »

Why do suggest that?

Because carpets in restaurants are extremely dated. For obvious reasons, I would have thought: they soak up all kinds of everything and unless they are cleaned professionally quite often, can leave a place feeling manky.

PARlance

corsav6 wrote: »

I got a takeaway about once a week when they started out and it was excellent. We gave it a break for a few months as we were getting married but got a few again during the summer and again I was impressed.

I heard from a few people that the food had gone downhill so maybe they chanced cutting corners and realised when it was too late, either way it's irrelevant now, good luck to the new crowd in there, we'll give them a chance.

Same here, absolutely no complaints when it first opened. We were regular customers and big fans. We just found that after maybe 3-4 months, it started to go downhill fast. We gave it a few go's but it never really improved.

iluvfatfrogs

See on Facebook that a new business is starting Meditation / Mindfulness classes in Castlebar on Tuesday mornings, this seems to be getting very popular

ureds

Gift Supreme closing down sale begins tomorrow.

Westernyelp

ureds wrote:

Gift Supreme closing down sale begins tomorrow.

That's a pity. Been on the cards for a good while though. The Kellehers are sound people

nuac

Westernyelp wrote: »

That's a pity. Been on the cards for a good while though. The Kellehers are sound people

Agreed 100%