Our Evening in Dublin 6/26

We met downstairs in our hotel to head out for dinner.  The Trinity Capital has these gigantic chairs in the entrance that look like Alice in Wonderland Chairs, so I made the boys pose for a photo!

We wandered down towards Temple Bar, hoping to find O'Shea's - a pub rated with decent reviews, but after walking over a mile, we didnt find it and decided to head through Temple Bar to see what we could find.  We stumbled on O'Riely's and were pretty hungry, so decided to give it a try.

Eric's chicken was definitely really good, though it was supposedly stuffed with brown bread, and that was not very obvious.  I ordered a chicken pasta that was supposed to be in a Tomato Basil Sauce, but it turned out to be more of a vodka sauce (tomato cream). My dad ordered the Rosemary lamb, and while not cooked the medium rare requested, it definitely had a good flavor, and the potatoes were my favorite part of the meal.  Not amazing, but not a bad meal... though we decided to head somewhere else for drinks & dessert!

Next we took a wander through Temple Bar, and ran into the actual Temple Bar!

We walked back towards the water, and wandered the street along the water hoping to find Maguires, another brewpub Eric had found.  We ended up finding it on our way back, though the service and microbrews turned out less than notable. There is definitely an advantage to having servers "work" for their tips! I guess there was a reason it didnt make the guidebook.

And as we got close to our hotel, I took this shot of the Trinity Capital Sign...