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About The Restaurant

Seapoint Café Bar Restaurant The Monkstown mob were out in force when the new Seapoint Café Bar Restaurant opened on The Crescent in Summer 2008. In fact there was such a soiree element I felt more Social Diarest than Food Critic!! It seemed a veritable celebration of the rising from the ashes of the once vibrant Monkstown restaurant scene for, in the 80’s, The Crescent was a real social hub with diners congregating before and aft in the local Goggins pub. Over time Monkstown became top heavy with oriental restaurants, the diners became bored, the restaurateurs became complacent, and The Crescent sprung a leak as customers departed townwards for grub and titillation. Now happily that is all change and Seapoint is at the fore of this revival. It is cool, smart, and has settled in and produces consistently good food in lovely surroundings. The Crescent consists of mews buildings to the rere of Longford Terrace so can be quite dinky. Seapoint overlooks a little entrance courtyard where you can sit out and have a glass of wine or a smoke. Long and narrow, you enter at a mid point bar and reception desk. The rear section is beside the open kitchen and the front section has French doors that can open out to the courtyard. They have done a lovely understated job on the décor – white walls, limed oak floor, anthracite coloured long banquettes, anthracite tables and colourful oil paintings by Laura Cronin of children bathing at Seapoint which will be evocative for many Dubliners. We always like what is on offer. Starters might include a superb prawn bisque with Brandy cream or seared yellow fin tuna on a potato blini with an avocado horseradish cream and yellow pepper coulis. Sauteed chilli, ginger and garlic, prawns are with a thyme and lemon risotto. Their potted crab with French toast, rosemary butter and rocket leaves is as it should be, simple, unadulterated and good. Deep fried oysters come with a shallot and smoked bacon mash, dill white wine cream. “From the Sea” mains may include baked hake with squash risotto, tomato and caper mint butter. Panfried honey and mustard monkfish is with spicy spaghetti fritters, lemon and ginger jus whilst grilled swordfish is with baked fennel and garlic, spicy tomato salsa, lemon olive oil dressing. “Not Out of The Sea” will always deliver excellent beef be it a 10 oz chargrilled Irish aged rib eye or an 8 oz cracking succulent fillet. Accompaniments are always interesting. The fillet of beef is sometimes with an apple and potato rosti, garlic and herb mushrooms whilst the rib-eye comes with prosciutto wrapped French beans, seapoint fries, and a red wine shallot garlic butter or pepper jus. They also do a delicious chargrilled marinated veal chop with baby spinach, garlic parsley mash, tomato thyme caper jus. There side orders are fabulous. Try the asparagus with shallot and bacon – absolutely cracking. They have an excellent set 2/3 course lunch menu from Tuesday to Saturday and a cracking Sunday Dinner Menu which runs all day from noon to 9 pm. There is also a good children’s menu which will keep parent and child happy. The Wine Menu is well thought out with lots of wines by the glass. Shane Kenny’s Seapoint has an accomplished sure hand in the kitchen and it is an urban neighbourhood restaurant with style and panache.

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