Bridgestone Guides 2007
The Oarsman |
Bridge Street, Carrick-on-Shannon, Co Leitrim in Co. Leitrim |
Ronan & Conor Maher Tel: +353 (0) 71-962 1733 | |
Contact: info@theoarsman.com | |
Great restaurateurs do one thing better than average | |
Look at the cheeseboard in The Oarsman, for instance. Sourced from the hallowed Sheridan’s Cheesemongers, it offers: 14 week-old Cashel Blue; Cooleeney camembert (they are actually cousins, so this is healthy nepotism!); Durrus, perhaps the greatest raw milk semi-soft cheese; smoked Knockanore from Waterford; Lavistown from Kilkenny; St Tola, an organic goat’s milk cheese from rainy Inagh in County Clare. That’s as perfect a cheeseboard as one could imagine – a blue, a smoked, a softy, a raw milk, a goats and a territorial, and it shows what the Maher brothers do: they edit. They select, they choose, they source, they know. All you have to do, then, is to enjoy. See how easy – and how swingeingly difficult! – it is to run a great restaurant? Aside from the cheeses, everything in The Oarsman speaks of the same minted care – Thornhill duck; Wick- low lamb; Hereford beef; Tom Beirne’s pork – and the brothers serve it all with a winning energy. Only fab. |
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| Opening Times: | Bar food noon-8.30pm Tue-Sat (lunch noon-3pm, afternoon menu 3pm-5pm, dinner 5pm- 8.30pm) |
| Credit Cards: | Yes |
| Directions: | The Oarsman is in the centre of Carrick-on-Shannon on Bridge Street, 100 metres from the bridge. |
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