.
The Gastro Bar And Restaurant
The Ashe Hotel
The Gastro Pub in The Ashe Hotel.
SO we’re back with our lunch reviews.
After running out of places to review a couple of months ago, suddenly we have had The Ashe Hotel, Benners Hotel and Coffee Start on The Mall open recently, giving us somewhere new to go.
I decided to pop down to The Ashe for a bite to eat recently to see how things were going at the gastro-pub, a few weeks after it opened.
Continued below…
.
I was impressed the previous evening, when I popped down at about 6.30pm to cover an event in the nearby function room and saw almost all of the tables in the bar occupied with diners. A good sign of how things were going there, I thought.
I arrived at 1.30pm to a busy mix of young couples, businesspeople and families enjoying their lunches while the World Snooker Championship was entertaining diners seated at the bar.
I like the look of the place; it has just the right lighting, nicely decorated and the ice-cool, blue lights behind the bar are, well, cool.
I had a look at the large lunch menu which featured four mains; a baked fillet of salmon, slow cooked Moroccon lamb tagine, beef and stout pie and penne pasta arrabiatta.
There are also some very tasty looking soups and sandwiches on the menu and a special ‘lunch combo offer’ (soup and a gourmet sandwich) for €9.50, which I decided to go for.
The soup of the day was mushroom and I decided to have the Mozarella Focaccia (buffalo mozzarella, fresh basil pesto, garden ripened toots and virgin olive oil, topped with fresh rocket).
The soup was excellent. There were nice size pieces of tasty mushroom, it was neither thick nor watery, ful of flavour and perfectly seasoned. Best soup I’ve had in ages.
The sandwich was also very tasty with the melted cheese working wonders with the pesto.
It’s worth noting though that with the combo special, you don’t get any bread with the soup nor, a salad with the sandwich, which you’d get if you ordered them separately.
It was still worth the €9.50 though and a very good cappuccino rounded off an enjoyable visit to The Ashe.
