Son of a Bun: FSAI closure

beer enigma

gctest50 wrote: »

Obsessed


what about steak tartare ?

http://i.imgur.com/okYq0yy.jpg



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I love steak tartare, I also like my steaks rare - that's my personal choice and my personal risk. If I'm paying for a meal, either I get the choice of how I have my food cooked or I simply don't eat there.

Even Aldi list a steak tartare recipe on their website !. I personally wont have a problem eating in Son of a Bun again.

draiochtanois

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gctest50

Andip wrote: »

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Even Aldi list a steak tartare recipe on their website !. I personally wont have a problem eating in Son of a Bun again.

The OP will have an Aldi-explosion when they see that:p

Gmaximum

What's more worrying is the fact that the closure order was only lifted when structural changes were made to the premises.

Why was this only done by the FSAI 9 months after they opened

I've experience of dealing with FSAI inspection and their follow up requirements. The same premises can be inspected by 2 different people with different results and recommendations. This is just wrong

That said fair play to the owners for how they dealt with it head on

D'Agger

pwurple wrote: »

Charming?

It'll be graaaaand. It's a burger joint, let's not overstate it people.

It'll clean up the basement or whatever area breached storage requirements, and open up again.

True, but considering it's just a burger place - you'd think it'd be easy to get more places like it up and running and yet there's very few good Burger places around - i.e. I'm originally from Kerry so there's pretty much no dedicated burger place so far as I'm aware and if there is you're there at 2am getting bate into the 1970s booths or stools welded into the ground.

Perhaps I'm overstating Son of a Bun but it is fair to say that it's garnered alot of traffic through word of mouth rather than good marketing which is a sign of a good place - growing organically (there's a massive EColi joke there if somebody wants it :pac:

Markcheese wrote: »

Okay ,define safe, the meat was fine , the staff had v-tech....
The main source of v-tech in ireland aint burgers,it aint food.. its music festivals - ban music festivals ?
Nothing in life is risk free, if you want your burger well done, have it well done, if you like steak tartar then enjoy it...
Hope the staff and owners at son of a bun can get over this and carry on,i'll have no prob returning , I really enjoyed eating there..

draiochtanois wrote: »

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See the quote above yours - was recycling another comment from page one of this thread - hadn't checked it up myself

pwurple

Em, there are a few burger places around now alright.

Gourmet Burger around the corner from son of a bun on bridge street
Coqbull

Places that do other stuff plus burgers:
Liberty grill
Bullies
Soho's

and that's not even starting on the take aways like the Fish Wife or hillbillies or whatever eddie rockets turned into.

Nonoperational

Undercooked mince is a well known source of 0157. It wasn't found in the samples they took, but someone complained them after contracting it. The staff had dirty hands, the conditions of the building were so poor that it was immediately closed by the FSAI not just given an improvement order and the staff were all sent away on food safety courses.

It'll probably be the safest restaurant in Cork now, but I doubt they will serve rare burgers anymore without a warning like you get in the states.

If you eat rare burgers you have a small chance of getting food poisoning, a greater risk than eating a well done burger. The same risk doesn't apply to steaks. That's a chance people take and as long as they are informed then that's their business.

11214

livedadream wrote: »

was brought up drinking it. im still alive.

used fight over the strawberry milk too.

my city friends were horrified when i told them

I was delighted when I got a bottle a few months back, couldn't wait to try it.
Once I did I couldn't believe the difference in taste, not for me though.

livedadream

11214 wrote: »

I was delighted when I got a bottle a few months back, couldn't wait to try it.
Once I did I couldn't believe the difference in taste, not for me though.

of strawberry milk?

the idea turns my stomach these days...

would sell my brother for it back in the day as a kid..

mmm bloody milk...

jesus we were some country bumpkins...

D'Agger

pwurple wrote: »

Em, there are a few burger places around now alright.

Gourmet Burger around the corner from son of a bun on bridge street
Coqbull

Places that do other stuff plus burgers:
Liberty grill
Bullies
Soho's

and that's not even starting on the take aways like the Fish Wife or hillbillies or whatever eddie rockets turned into.

I was referencing a speciality place rather than places that do burgers - I think it's great to see speciality restaurants kicking off - so for burgers there's two in Cork effectively (Gourmet Burger & Son of a Bun) - again the main point I'm trying to make here is that, coming from Kerry, it's interesting to see speciality rather than jack of all trades restaurants taking off as it's a rarity to see outside of cities such as Dublin.

One thing I think Cork is screaming out for is a Doughnut place, where the only other thing you should sell with it is coffee - there's no Dunkin Donuts, Krispy Kremes or specialist place doing them in Cork & whilst population will always mean more demand in Dublin - Aungier Danger is doing a flying trade off the street - has a good reputation through word of mouth etc. I think something like that would have a Son of a Bun-esque rise tbh

So....that's me gone way OT, apologies!

farmerjj

Oh god no donut places please,i love dunkin donuts if it opened in cork i,d be obese within a year.think there's probably enough temptations already.

pwurple

pwurple wrote: »

Em, there are a few burger places around now alright.

Gourmet Burger around the corner from son of a bun on bridge street
Coqbull

Places that do other stuff plus burgers:
Liberty grill
Bullies
Soho's

and that's not even starting on the take aways like the Fish Wife or hillbillies or whatever eddie rockets turned into.

Don't forget 32 Marlboro street, absolutely delicious my favourite burger place by a distance. The burgers are bigger than anything I've ever seen before. I haven't had a chance to try son of a bun yet but it's been almost all good things I've heard about it. Few complains about the chips not being great alright from one person and also someone who doesn't like the type of burger bun but aside from that it's got great reviews by word of mouth.

pwurple

D'Agger wrote: »

I was referencing a speciality place rather than places that do burgers - I think it's great to see speciality restaurants kicking off - so for burgers there's two in Cork effectively (Gourmet Burger & Son of a Bun) - again the main point I'm trying to make here is that, coming from Kerry, it's interesting to see speciality rather than jack of all trades restaurants taking off as it's a rarity to see outside of cities such as Dublin.

One thing I think Cork is screaming out for is a Doughnut place, where the only other thing you should sell with it is coffee - there's no Dunkin Donuts, Krispy Kremes or specialist place doing them in Cork & whilst population will always mean more demand in Dublin - Aungier Danger is doing a flying trade off the street - has a good reputation through word of mouth etc. I think something like that would have a Son of a Bun-esque rise tbh

So....that's me gone way OT, apologies!

D'agger, sounds like america is the spot for you! I've done my few years there, and i can accept a 14 euro burger once in a blue moon, we really have plenty.

Between the 200 (slight exagguration) burrito places and the bazillion american food kncockoffs (#nojoke) I think we're okif one closes for a few weeks.

Elliott S

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pwurple

Elliott S wrote: »

It says that all beef samples tested carried E.coli. They said the bacteria didn't come from the food chain. This is different to saying none was found on the beef samples tested.

No, it said all samples tested negative.

D'Agger

pwurple wrote: »

D'agger, sounds like america is the spot for you! I've done my few years there, and i can accept a 14 euro burger once in a blue moon, we really have plenty.

Between the 200 (slight exagguration) burrito places and the bazillion american food kncockoffs (#nojoke) I think we're okif one closes for a few weeks.

Yeah pricing is an issue, usual good time Charlie Ireland

You're correct about the burrito bars now you say it,havent tried any of them! Although there's a new one in Douglas that looks good I'm gona give a whirl

SteelyDanJalapeno

D'Agger wrote: »

Yeah pricing is an issue, usual good time Charlie Ireland

You're correct about the burrito bars now you say it,havent tried any of them! Although there's a new one in Douglas that looks good I'm gona give a whirl

Whats it called?

We need a Boojum

D'Agger

TiltedBrain wrote: »

Whats it called?

We need a Boojum

La Calavera - could be around ages but I've only heard of it now - interested in trying the power bowl - would be a good, healthy feed

what the hell!

D'Agger wrote: »

La Calavera - could be around ages but I've only heard of it now - interested in trying the power bowl - would be a good, healthy feed

Yep was there at the weekend very tasty! No quesadillas though!

leahyl

MrMac84 got to it before me - (thanks ) - I just want to add though that this thread is going down a dangerous road so be very careful what you say - the facts only please. Otherwise, can see this thread being closed very soon.

northgirl

what the hell! wrote: »

Yep was there at the weekend very tasty! No quesadillas though!

Is it it in or take-out only?

Markcheese

It was my post earlier... I havent got a link or a post, but fsai (anecdotally) have said the major cause of 0157/ vtec infection isnt from food its from music festivals...

So now you've read it on t'internet, from a guy that knows a guy who heard it from a guy who works for fsai....

livedadream

Markcheese wrote: »

It was my post earlier... I havent got a link or a post, but fsai (anecdotally) have said the major cause of 0157/ vtec infection isnt from food its from music festivals...

something about mud and **** in the mud...

or faeces as we like to call it in civilized society :P

you go to a festival, sleep in a tent or wander though a muddy ****ty field,
come home its on your hands shoes it spreads really easily, ends up in your system, spreads again.

its common i read the same report last year i think it was.

11214

livedadream wrote: »

of strawberry milk?

the idea turns my stomach these days...

would sell my brother for it back in the day as a kid..

mmm bloody milk...

jesus we were some country bumpkins...

:eek: no I meant raw milk, jesus when you said strawberry milk I thought you meant something like yazoo!

livedadream

11214 wrote: »

:eek: no I meant raw milk, jesus when you said strawberry milk I thought you meant something like yazoo!

hahahaha mad for the yazoo.

i assume you know what strawberry milk is now?

for those who never got to enjoy it,

its milk from a cow that has recently calved, sometimes their not healed 100% and the milk had a little pink tinge..

broken capillaries and blood vessels i think...

used go mad for it as kids, i assume the FSAI would go mental if we were drinking it now.

Elliott S

Apologies, read the OP wrong. Twas late.

livedadream

Elliott S wrote: »

Apologies, read the OP wrong. Twas late.

i appreciate it, and im sure the owners do too.

(i got an infraction for giving out but look ****e happens)

beer enigma

I think this thread is done

mackcracknsack

D'Agger wrote: »

TiltedBrain wrote: »

Whats it called?

We need a Boojum

La Calavera - could be around ages but I've only heard of it now - interested in trying the power bowl - would be a good, healthy feed

Guys, there is no comparison with Boojum and La Calavera.
Big let down, the requirement for a good Burrito bar in Cork continues.

Also, I heard from a source that Cork is on the list for Boojum. Not sure when or where.

ROY RACE

its fooked now there be no one go to a place that failed an inspection on hygeine reasons.