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What a disaster. Someone should have told them that a full house was expected in Croke Park today. We were inside their door at 12.50. Queuing for 1 hour and 20 mins to get into the bistro. About 20 in front of us ( including children). Got a table gave our order. 2 course special. Waited 40 minutes on the first course and had to leave 10 minutes before throw in of first match while still waiting on our dessert. Never again. Called into A wee country restaurant coming home. Half the staff and they had carvery going and dessert and were serving bus loads coming from the matches in a fraction of the time. border Gael (Monaghan) - Posts: 894 - 05/08/2017 23:08:43 2029526 Link
Replying To border Gael: "What a disaster. Someone should have told them that a full house was expected in Croke Park today. We were inside their door at 12.50. Queuing for 1 hour and 20 mins to get into the bistro. About 20 in front of us ( including children). Got a table gave our order. 2 course special. Waited 40 minutes on the first course and had to leave 10 minutes before throw in of first match while still waiting on our dessert. Never again. Called into A wee country restaurant coming home. Half the staff and they had carvery going and dessert and were serving bus loads coming from the matches in a fraction of the time." get the punters in and fleece them anywhich way they can, if they were running a decent restaurant/café/bistro they'd be closed because if the bollox service bulmccabe (Tyrone) - Posts: 361 - 05/08/2017 23:26:27 2029535 Link
Sounds like you didn't get just desserts... Morty (Westmeath) - Posts: 209 - 05/08/2017 23:38:45 2029540 Link
Replying To Morty: "Sounds like you didn't get just desserts..." Yeeeeaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!!!!!!! Won't get fooled again Thank you Horatio Caine! CletusVanDamme (Kerry) - Posts: 63 - 05/08/2017 23:52:06 2029542 Link
You picked a terrible place to eat. The place was always going to be way too busy. You should have known there was a full house, done your research and gone elsewhere. Jack_Goff (Meath) - Posts: 2920 - 06/08/2017 04:08:48 2029579 Link
We were their yesterday as well - shambolic service....., children's food was cold when it came out, complained, do you want to see a manager, - not a good day.. cuchulainn35 (Armagh) - Posts: 1671 - 06/08/2017 09:34:20 2029619 Link
82,300 in Croke park yesterday apparently and you are eating in a place across the road. You couldn't pick a worse place if you tried. Go back to the sangwiches and tae outa the boot and keep your money. catch22 (USA) - Posts: 2148 - 06/08/2017 09:59:35 2029630 Link
80000 people in Croke park and you pick the nearest place to eat, what did you expect? There are plenty of places to eat that are 10-15 minutes walk from Croke park. Chops (Westmeath) - Posts: 775 - 06/08/2017 10:09:40 2029636 Link
Replying To catch22: "82,300 in Croke park yesterday apparently and you are eating in a place across the road. You couldn't pick a worse place if you tried. Go back to the sangwiches and tae outa the boot and keep your money." agree with this lol... people amaze me at times. waynoI (Dublin) - Posts: 13650 - 06/08/2017 10:29:39 2029652 Link
Lots of much better places in the area to eat then that rip off spot, especially with a full house in Croker too. Dubsfan28 (Dublin) - Posts: 2509 - 06/08/2017 10:46:11 2029658 Link
That Pizza place beside the station isn't bad. Good friendly staff, decent grub. I've seen people book tables in advance but they'd feed you if there was a while before a table was gonna be occupied. GreenandRed (Mayo) - Posts: 7335 - 06/08/2017 10:56:54 2029661 Link
Going to let you into a secret If Croker is sold out 1) the hotel closest to the stadium will be busy 2) it won't be easy to get out of the clonliffe road. car park 3) you might have to queue for the jacks in the stadium ( especially if you are female) 4) cold oven chips at 4 euro a carton probably isn't the most economical way to fodder yourself 5) the barman in croker isn't going to lovingly craft a 3 stage pour pint of guinness in a pre chilled glass And if it's AI final weekend you will probably queue to get into coppers ( unless you are a copper) Otherwise it's a fairly big town so there maybe second third and fourth options - Go figure ! ruanua (Donegal) - Posts: 4966 - 06/08/2017 12:06:29 2029691 Link
Replying To ruanua: "Going to let you into a secret If Croker is sold out 1) the hotel closest to the stadium will be busy 2) it won't be easy to get out of the clonliffe road. car park 3) you might have to queue for the jacks in the stadium ( especially if you are female) 4) cold oven chips at 4 euro a carton probably isn't the most economical way to fodder yourself 5) the barman in croker isn't going to lovingly craft a 3 stage pour pint of guinness in a pre chilled glass And if it's AI final weekend you will probably queue to get into coppers ( unless you are a copper) Otherwise it's a fairly big town so there maybe second third and fourth options - Go figure !" Ray Silke was on the wireless yesterday and let it slip that he was eating Gluten-free fish and chips in Croke Park. I didn't even know that Raymond was a hipster. GreenandRed (Mayo) - Posts: 7335 - 06/08/2017 13:42:55 2029725 Link
Replying To ruanua: "Going to let you into a secret If Croker is sold out 1) the hotel closest to the stadium will be busy 2) it won't be easy to get out of the clonliffe road. car park 3) you might have to queue for the jacks in the stadium ( especially if you are female) 4) cold oven chips at 4 euro a carton probably isn't the most economical way to fodder yourself 5) the barman in croker isn't going to lovingly craft a 3 stage pour pint of guinness in a pre chilled glass And if it's AI final weekend you will probably queue to get into coppers ( unless you are a copper) Otherwise it's a fairly big town so there maybe second third and fourth options - Go figure !" Ha! Great post! People love to moan though. MesAmis (Dublin) - Posts: 13704 - 06/08/2017 13:50:24 2029728 Link
Replying To border Gael: "What a disaster. Someone should have told them that a full house was expected in Croke Park today. We were inside their door at 12.50. Queuing for 1 hour and 20 mins to get into the bistro. About 20 in front of us ( including children). Got a table gave our order. 2 course special. Waited 40 minutes on the first course and had to leave 10 minutes before throw in of first match while still waiting on our dessert. Never again. Called into A wee country restaurant coming home. Half the staff and they had carvery going and dessert and were serving bus loads coming from the matches in a fraction of the time." This is my favourite post of the week, well it's a toss up between this and the one complaining about the carpark on Clonliffe Road. What in God's name do you expect from a hotel/bistro (and car park) located within spitting distance of a ground that holds 82k AND is a sell-out? Rookie error you won't make again. As for the wee bistro you stopped off at on the way home. Maybe they had less staff on (and a quicker service) because they weren't catering for 1000s. Just a wild guess. GaaGaa78 (UK) - Posts: 285 - 06/08/2017 14:20:12 2029743 Link
There were less than 20 people in front of us and we waited an hour and 20 minutes for 20 people to be served. I wouldn't exactly call that 1000s. I am sure they knew that there were crowds coming. The wee restaurant on the way home was serving bus loads of people. The difference was that they were organised. Its the same old story.. Fail to prepare. Prepare for a fail. border Gael (Monaghan) - Posts: 894 - 06/08/2017 17:57:28 2029822 Link
had a beef dinner in croke park , fantastic food, great value, nearly to to much in it to eat Stmunnsriver (Wexford) - Posts: 2840 - 06/08/2017 18:40:52 2029848 Link
Fail to prepare. Prepare for a fail. border Gael (Monaghan) - Posts:584 - 06/08/2017 17:57:28 2029822 Exactly. When you leave yourself no other option but to eat in the closest restaurant to a sold out 80k plus capacity stadium you really have failed to prepare and risk the inevitable delays. MesAmis (Dublin) - Posts: 13704 - 06/08/2017 18:49:25 2029850 Link
had a beef dinner in croke park , fantastic food, great value, nearly to to much in it to eat Stmunnsriver (Wexford) - Posts: 2840 - 06/08/2017 18:50:40 2029852 Link