New food menu at Hideout

The Diary is mightily pleased to see the new food menu at the Hideout, which looks like filling a gaping niche in pub food in the town since Berneys went upmarket with Cafe Tomat.



The Editor understands very well where new operator Martin Myles is coming from, because it was precisely to fill such a need that my parents set up the original Hideout Grill back in the fifties ... to make simple good food available all day at good value prices.

At that time the only places you could get a meal when travelling around the country were in hotels, and customers were strictly limited to the 12.30-2pm lunch and 5.30-9pm dinner time slots.

Establishing what was then the first 'roadhouse' of its kind in the country, Jim and Monica Byrne were the real pioneers of the bar food business that we all nowadays take for granted.

The new Hideout menu includes breakfasts served from 10am-12pm with prices ranging from €3.95-€8.95, lunches available until 4pm with choices starting at Chili Nacos for €6.95 to Roast Joint of the Day at €10.95, all with suitable 'trimmings', as well as Paninis and Wraps with chips and salsa at €6.95.



The Evening Menu is exceptionally improved, with no less than ten Appetisers, three Pasta dishes, seven Meat options including the welcome return of what the Hideout was famous for, the T-Bone Steak, and a three-item seafood selection.



If you're feeling more cosmopolitan, there are nine other dishes available, ranging from a Club Sandwich to the oddly-named 'Vegetarian Thai Red Chicken Curry' which nevertheless looks great in description. The evening menus are available 4pm 'till late'.

Sunday Lunch is available from 12-3pm, and on Bank Holidays there's an A la Carte menu from 12.30-8pm.

Right on, Martin and crew ... they deserve great support. Phone482121 for reservations.

Brian Byrne.

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