It's been an amazing St. Patrick's Weekend so far here in Ireland!
Ireland beat France yesterday to seize victory in the 6 Nations. It was Brian O'Driscoll's final game playing for Ireland and I was so happy that he won. I don't think we will ever see a player like him again.
My sisters all watched the game from different locations but we texted each other throughout. Katie was in Athlone, Co Roscommon where she lives and works for a large multi-national communcations/technology company. Lydia watched the game in Zurich where she was on a layover - she works as Cabin Crew for an airline in the Middle East. Amy would have liked to watch the match but she was enroute home from a snowboarding trip in Meribel, France.
Later that night we had dinner in The Sussex which was very very good! We really enjoyed the ambiance......from the minute we started walking up the characterful rickety old stairs I had a feeling it was going to be enjoyable. We didn't have starters as we didn't feel ravenous - brown bread and butter was brought to us as we perused the menu so we nibbled on that.
We both ordered the fillet steak special with chips (fries). I had mine with pepper sauce and Ciaran had his with "Sussex Butter" - a wonderful herby melted butter. Next time I will have the Sussex Butter too! We ordered out steaks rare and they were perfectly cooked.
All washed down with a bottle of red wine and finished with a shared Banana & Pecan brownie with vanilla ice cream. The brownie was deliciously home made and the banana made it very moist. Divine!
The Sussex is only a short walk away from our house and I think it could easily turn in to one of our favourite dining spots - we will be back!!
For photos of the Sussex Restaurant check out their Facebook page.
Steaks look goooooooood!
ReplyDeleteBanana brownie - GROSS!!!! lol :-D