Restaurant Recommendation Thread - Anyone for seconds?

Will definitely be giving that a go!

Treated myself twice to Samosas last week.

Once at the Sensasion stall at the Mahon farmer's market and at the Stewstore in Douglas. Both excellent.

A takeaway putting food out in 10 minutes doesn't seem unreasonable to me. What takeaway food is cooked from scratch?

Thanks for posting, and the review. I find it hard to agree that the menu looks good. The menu would put me off there in how it is written. How they are describing the food is complicated, too hard to understand honestly. Even having read it a few times now, I still don't fully get it. I can't imagine what someone running a translation tool would make of it, and how do you even order it without sounding like an eejit who can't form a sentence.

Take the example of the charcuterie board item called "Shouldn't have done that Ireland" Firstly, what? You say "I'll have a shouldn't have done that please"? And on the board is a red cabbage panna cotta. I can't even grasp what that could be and how a panna cotta works on a charcuterie board? Maybe it's not a charcuterie board but some sort of deconstructed item? Also don't understand calling a menu item "Chicken are Chicken". "Chicken Sandwich" works fine lads, and if there's some in joke or meme for "chicken are chicken", I don't know it. This gives it a feeling of exclusion, not being part of the cool gang who gets it.

If you're a vegetarian, there isn't much for you there either, just one lonely item on the whole menu (poke?) and it's not well marked as either vegetarian or vegan, which it could be. Both the soups there are meat-based, at least french onion soup usually is, and the boards and all the sandwiches have meat. It's easy to do a meat-free board, include some roasted veg, olives and cheese, and not too tricky to do a veg or cheese sandwich either.

So not a well balanced menu imho.

Duh! I didn't cop the Depeche Mode songs link, despite being well aware of the Depeche Mode obsession of the owner!

Hah! Depeche Mode! Jeez.

I wouldn't dis anyone's musical taste, and if you're running a business you can theme it anyway you like, but typing "Are Depeche Mode" into google, it prompts "…still alive", so I'd hazard a guess that a fair proportion of the potential cafe customers who eat poke may not be familiar, making the themed menu kinda baffling.

And I happily nominate you to be a Cabbage Panna cotta guinea pig. Bon appetite.

He's a nice guy but he can not cook. His last venture was pizza's with things like fried onion rings and curry as toppings. He tried the poke bowls as a standalone business, didn't work.

To be fair that end of Washington street, not much survives unless you have an exceptional offering.

There was also Movida - a really awful tapas bar where Latitude 51 is now.

Hard Rock Café is just one example of many, many, very successful themed restaurants. "Especially a Depeche Mode Theme" 😂. Subjective much?

People seem to be forgetting that Café Depeche has been operating as a Depeche Mode themed cafe for years - people either don't realise or don't care.

If this restaurant was any good, people wouldn't give a fiddler's whether it was themed or not. There's nothing themed about the food - it's just titles on a menu.