The Tain Festival venues.
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Number 32
No.32 will host three performances from the legendary Martin Stephenson on Friday 26th, Saturday the 27th and Sunday the 28th of October. Tickets are €50 and include dinner. They are available to purchase directly from the venue.
Attractively situated in a leafy corner of town near the museum, Susan Heraghty’s great little place is the neighbourhood restaurant par excellence and a great asset to Dundalk. It occupies a corner site, with windows all along one side giving it a sense of space - and more real space is available too, now that the first floor is also available for dining.
The smart simplicity of the decor and table settings is very appealing, and menus are written in an admirably down-to-earth style - and the same can be said of the prices, notably an exceptional early evening menu (the ‘Express’) which allows you two courses (from a generous selection of about half a dozen starters and main courses, plus several daily fish and vegetarian specials) and includes coffee with a mini-dessert - and the later set menu is not far behind.
On whichever, you might get such delicious starter combinations as deep-fried tempura aubergine & courgette with red onion jam & curry oil, or a lovely tin of crab & celeriac with confit tomato & sweet mustard dressing - and main courses like grilled lamb burger with cucumber & mint raita, roast tomatoes & chips, or pan-fried chicken in a wholegrain mustard cream sauce, with mash & root vegetables.
There has always been a terrific generosity of spirit here - not in overladen plates, but in quality of food and service; the later menu is like the Express but with a little more choice and slightly more sophisticated dishes - but prices are still very reasonable.
Everything is just as delicious as it sounds (or even more so), service is good-humoured and efficient. Would that every town in Ireland had a place like this.
No. 32 Restaurant
Chapel Street
Dundalk
Co. Louth
Phone: +353 (0)42 9331113