I normally prefer to eat outside of the hotels we stay in but the restaurant within Dromoland Castle came highly recommended.
So we decided to “eat in”– by eating in, I mean going down one flight of stairs from our floor (no elevator inside the castle :D) and into the Earl of Thomond restaurant.
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| The stairs that lead you right into the restaurant |
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| The restaurant corridor (can this be called a parlor also?) serves as the breakfast buffet area (where I get my scones :D) |
The restaurant
It was an early dinner– 7.45p just as the sun was setting 🙂
Sigh. Ever since this vacation began, all I did was indulge in fat- rich food. Vacation= diet killer! And y’all know I love good food with good company, so I really indulged. All I have been having during the mornings was a full Irish breakfast which consisted of bacon, sausage, black and white pudding, and eggs. Plus scones and clotted cream with jam. *Gulp*– heart attack on a plate LOL.
If you have been following me on twitter, you’d know what I am talking about because I’ve been instagramming my meals daily (even if no one really cares to know what I eat, especially since I eat the same thing everyday in different places anyway lol).
Anyway I decided to give my heart-attack-on-a-plate meal a rest during our first night at Dromoland and went for a “lighter” dinner which consisted of the quail salad
Delicious. I realized I was one of those people who liked large meals so this was obviously not going to do it for my stomach. It was still growling rather loudly as I finished my last bite of the quail. I could’ve gone for seconds. It was arguably one of the best “mini” salads I have ever had.
I chose to go with fish for my main course, thinking it would be a better alternative than say, veal or prime rib. Besides, we were told the fish was very fresh. So I picked monkfish.
Such a generous portion of fish! It was very, very good and while I was secretly hoping to have a bite of monkfish liver along with the fish fillet (monkfish liver= foie gras of the sea), I was already quite satisfied with the fillet because it was very flavorful and indeed fresh. I had to hold off the starch begrudgingly *because I had tasted how good the potatoes were!* but I did myself a favor and staved off what could’ve been an additional layer to my already swelling “vacation” midsection 😀
Hats off to Chef David Mc Cann for an excellent meal and dining experience at the Earl of Thomond inside Dromoland Castle!
x
TheBagHag