The Orangery at St Elphin's Park

A group of us went for the 'Rock & Roll' night. The entertainer was excellent if a bit to loud. The food was pretty good. the prawn cocktail sauce was rather watery but the prawns were fine. The serving of pate was very generous but the bread was like concrete. I think it had started life as a sourdough baguette, been re-warmed then allowed to go cold.We were very pleased with the main course being served with separate dishes of potatoes and vegetables so you could choose what you wanted and how much.Our table all had the salmon which was lovely. The sweets were all good as well.A grand night was had by all.

I dined with friends and we all enjoyed our meals. The asparagus starter was very good and the pizza on the specials menu was a nice change as was the chilli con carne. The spring menu is getting a bit tired now as we are in summer.

This is a really lovely place. The restaurant and gardens are beautiful.Our food was excellent, it was beautifully presented and tasted fabulous. There was excellent attention to detail which included additional touches like the contrasting dressing on my salad or the crunchy candied rhubarb on my crumble, just made the meal special. The only drawback was that as we ate late in the afternoon it was quiet. So the ambiance was quite right. We look forward to visiting again.

A group of us went to the Chinese evening. The prawn crackers and plate of starters were excellent, apart from us as a table of seven getting the same size of prawn crackers as a table of four so we asked for another bowl. Also there were only five prawn toasts so we had to ask for two more of those as well. The mains were a buffet the crispy beef was very good and the sweet and sour chicken tasty, I did not try the prawn curry but was told it was good. The veg chow mein was a nice selection of vegetables and egg fried rice was served. Given the assorted flavours and sauces it would have been better with plain rice. Sweet was pineapple fritter and toffee sauce. I ate the pineapple and sauce but left the batter as it was sprinkled with sugar so was to sweet for me but everyone else seemed to enjoy it. There was no 'entertainment' but this meant we could all chat without shouting so was actually preferred by our group.

It was a Burn's night do and was very enjoyable. The haggis was addressed and a dram drunk. The smoked salmon starter was good but could have done with some horseradish mayonnaise to just lift it, the haggis was very tasty, with mash and bashed neeps plus extra gravy if needed. The finish was a chocolate mousse that was suitably chocolaty.There was also a singer who was very good and not to loud. A thoroughly good night out.