First stop of the evening was the Dingle Whiskey bar on Nassau Street. They've recently won Irish Whiskey bar of the year (Leinster)
I didn't want to start the evening off with a whiskey so I chose one of their Fish Bowl cocktails - Bowler hat.
Amazing selection here but only stayed for one as I had booked a table for Porndog on Montague Street via Twitter for anytime between 5:30 and 6:00 on Saturday evening.
What a great attention grabbing name!
To put it mildly I've been very excited to try Porndog since I found out Dublin was finally going to be getting a place specialising in hot dogs.
It looks small when you walk in first and you can see into the kitchen but it's deceptive. There's plenty of seating over two floors.
We were brought upstairs and had a choice of seats. We chose one of the low seats in front of the bar. I was fascinated by the jars of pickle fermenting away on the bar. The barman informed me that they are for pickle back shots which are v popular in the USA but I wasn't brave enough to try one.
The music was mainly 70s disco. My mum played a lot of this when I was growing up so I loved it. Great tuneage. I found all staff to be very friendly and attentive but not over the top.
Here are the menus:
I went with white wine. A glass of Cave L'Ormarine Picquol. Olivia Pope on Scandal would be proud of the size of the glasses. Their pours are generous. Sean chose a 1L growler of their Pale Ale.
We ordered the hummus plate to share for start. Warm Garlic brioche bread, pickled vegetables (purple cauliflower, carrot & strips of courgette (I think) and a lovely harissa spiked hummus dip. The brioche was really good as were the pickled vegetables.
For my main course I chose the Voodoo dog. OMFG wow. Southern Panko Fried Chicken sausage with sriracha mustard, micro greens, American cheese, smoked bacon pork crackling and house fermented pickle vegetables. Now if you were left alone you could easily get the hunch on but had to be polite so mainly ate it with a knife and fork. The dog was just awesome! The chicken was crispy and tender and had a lovely kick to it.
We also ordered a side of sweet potato fries which are served with harissa yogurt, salted seeds and Parmesan cheese. Utterly delicious!
Sean ordered the Hot Diggity Dog which is a smoked and charred beef sausage, chilli beef brisket, guacamole, jalapeños, cheddar cheese, creme fraiche and fresh chillies.
I still had room for dessert so I chose the tempura fried candy bar bites. These are little bites of Mars, Snickers and Milky Way with just a little batter. The chocolate was a little messy. Little bites of heaven :)
As you can see they're serving up some seriously good looking delicious tasting food porn.
I did not leave disappointed. Sean had reservations before we went but he really enjoyed it too. Will definitely be back!!! :)
Was still early so headed around the corner to Against the Grain. I had heard rumours that they were going to have Founders' Rubaeus on tap but it wasn't on yet so instead I tried the new Galway Bay Brewery beer, The Eternalist. Matured in Cabernet Sauvignon barrels for almost two years with a hint of raspberry and it costs €8:50 a bottle. Was it worth it? Yes! I'm not actually a beer drinker but I really enjoyed it.
Then stopped at P. Macs for some more tipples. I had a couple of glasses of Lindemans Framboise. Sean chose the Siren Craft Brew Broken Dreams which is very like a Founders' Breakfast Stout but sweeter. I even liked it :)
Lovely crisp October evening so we then strolled along Stephen's Green crunching through the leaves and ended up at Alfie Byrnes. Took me a while to choose what I wanted but eventually decided to have another Eternalist here - they only had a couple of bottles left!
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