Mick and Joyce Soden's gastro-pub is a real gastro pub: a bar that cooks and serves real food, and where you can see and enjoy the evident care and expertise of a talented kitchen.
When they do the classics of pub food - battered hake and chips; bacon and cabbage; medallions of pork with wholegrain mustard sauce - they do them right, and the food is correct, satisfying, logical, not messed about with. So, a day sailing on the waters of Lough Derg, and then the thirst for a pint, and the hunger for pan-fried crab claws, and then a Hereford sirloin with mash and creamy shallots. Ah.
