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    Foxy Lounge review: No amount of gold can redeem this one-star Donnybrook debacle


    Foxy Lounge review: No amount of gold can redeem this one-star Donnybrook debacle

    https://www.irishtimes.com/food/restaurants/review/2024/09/12/foxy-lounge-restaurant-review-all-thats-gold-does-not-glitter-in-this-donnybrook-debacle/

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    3. norodaisy on

      I read it this morning, they could have been a lot meaner. The bit below made me laugh.

      >The crab royale pasta (€43) arrives, with fettuccine spilling out of the crab’s shell like a grotesque seafood piñata. Cimek [the chef] drowns it in hot garlic butter tableside, creating an oil slick that would make Circle K blush.

    5. GroundbreakingToe717 on

      I remember reading a harsh review in the IT before and then passed the place a few weeks later and it was shut down. I get reviews can be used to hold places to account, but they can be brutal. If it’s bad maybe just don’t review it.

    11. HibernianMetropolis on

      Corinna Hardgrave’s reviews are usually pretty gentle. Bang average places get 4+ stars regularly. This place must really really stink, this is as brutal a review as I’ve ever seen her write.

    14. MrMiracle27 on

      There’s a mythical review left by the Guardian’s restaurant reviewer for this 5* Michelin style experience in Paris where he destroyed the place. Was such an entertaining read.

    18. EFbVSwN5ksT6qj on

      I feel sorry for people who try to do something different and then fall on their face. You don’t like to see people fail when they are trying.

      But nothing about this place was going to work. It is gaudy as fuck. Wealthy Irish people are typically conservative and prefer understatement.

      I’m not surprised the owners are foreign because this looks like was something lost in translation. A clash of cultural tastes

    21. Feckitmaskoff on

      How little the owners read the room before opening the restaurant. It’s an Italian restaurant with about half the items on the menu at the upper end of cost

      50eu for a fucking main and a 10 inch pizza for 30eu in an Italian is a scandal. You can slap fine dining all you want but it’s a fucking pizza, in Italy they would not have this on the menu of “fine dining”. You can add all the blady blah fermented this or that….it is a fucking pizza. Bread, tomato and cheese with toppings.

      These prices could (barely) be justified if the restaurant was actually in Dublin city and not Donnybrook.

      So location, price and quality are all lacking. I will have very little sympathy for somewhere that could have just done simple affordable Italian food with one or two interchangeable dishes for variety.

    23. Otherwise-Winner9643 on

      “Turning to the decor. Gold isn’t just on the menu. There are gold lamps, gold ice buckets with stags’ heads, gold cutlery and a teaspoon crowned with a fake plastic diamond (pilfered perhaps from Barbie’s Dreamhouse). The purple walls are flecked with gold like a unicorn sneezed glitter everywhere.”

    24. ItalianIrish99 on

      I feel sorry for the owner and the chef. With the pictures they had no idea the review would be that bad.

      But I also don’t understand people going into business without the faintest idea of what their target market wants. Like if there’s a massive population of 90s kingpins floating around Donnybrook maybe it’ll do great but all you really have to do is visit the 5 most successful similar style restaurants and create a variation of their theme so you are a little distinctive and have something different to offer

    25. tomp_throwaway_s on

      “Head chef” previously worked in “Avoca, Donnybrook Fair and Compass Group Ireland”.

      Well that explains that one. One bag of shit after another.