Landed in Dublin after 14 hours of traveling. We were so exhausted but can’t sleep yet or else we will take a few days to adjust to GMT.
So we wandered a bit while waiting for my parents to arrive as well – their flight from London was a few hours after ours.
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About a mile from our hotel is an open air shopping street like Santa Monica’s Third Street Promenade. We walked by an old church converted to a restaurant -and recommended by Rick Steve’s Ireland book, and decided that is where we will have dinner.
We managed to snag four seats at the bar since we didn’t make a reservation. Mom got a pineapple juice and dad ordered a glass of Guinness.
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I’ve never been a fan of Guinness so I stuck with one of my favs.. Erdinger Dunkel.
Anthony got the beer flight. You can read his reviews on Beer Untappd.
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For food, parents got the seafood sampler and the special which was Thai green coconut curry… in a pub… calamari was super bland. Absolutely no flavor in the breading or the squid itself. It felt like eating a rubber band.
Anthony got the fillet sandwich and fries. Fries were great. I didn’t like the sandwich all that much, esp not the dipping sauce.
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I went for the beef and Guinness stew. It could go either way as the other foods we ordered didn’t meet expectations but I was gladly surprised. Great beefy flavor.. tough meat. Needed to be braised longer. Puff pastry was nice and flakey. But overall good.
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But what we absolutely did not expect were the couple of dancers touring with River Dance! They were aaaaamazing!!!!
WordPress wouldn’t let me upload the video and I don’t have time to figure it out so you can see it here.