Sunday Brunch and Jazz at the Gibson Hotel

Enid (of renovating lpa) and I arranged to meet our friend Alice for brunch in The Gibson Hotel this morning.

We had a good old catch up :-)

And the food wasn't half bad either!

First up a little amuse bouche

Strawberry yoghurt smoothie and little fruit and custard pastry.

These were a really cute teeny tiny size.  I put my ring on the plate to show the scale - the first photo I took made them look huge.

Starter

We ordered some salmon and tuna sashimi to share.  Alice noted that some ginger would have finished the plate off.  Plus we all agreed that the tuna was not rare enough.

Mains

I got the Gibson full fry - great flavours...a little cold though!

Enid and Alice both got the Eggs Royale - Eggs Benedict but with salmon instead of ham.  Enid got her hollandaise sauce on the side.

They both really enjoyed it - in particular the English muffin which Enid figured were freshly baked.

Two vodka and diet cokes (sure Enid and I weren't driving!)

Orange Juice

A tea and two coffees

€64 before tip.

Oh!  And let's not forget the nice little jazz quartet playing in the corner.  All in all quite nice.

3.5/5...mainly because my fry was on the cold side.

Launch of The Gibson Hotel's new bbq menu

 

On Wednesday myself and a friend attended the launch of the Gibson Hotel's new bbq range designed by Rozanne Stevens's.

 

The  Gibson Hotel had very kindly sent me an invitation to this event and I was excited when I received it.

 

On arrival we were greeted by an Aperol & Prosecco cocktail/spritzer - 3 parts Prosecco, 2 parts tonic water, 1 part Aperol. 

It was a very nice and refreshing drink, although both Deirdre and I commented that we thought it tasted much weaker in alcohol than 3 parts Prosecco.

 

There was a fine spread of food, all made by the Gibson kitchen made from the recipe's designed by Rozanne.

 

The salmon steamed in a large leaf was so succulent and flavoursome! 

And the charred, cheesy, salted corn on the cob - oh momma!  

 

 

Rozanne then gave a short presentation about herself and her cooking (she apparently favours the "ish" style of cooking - thai-ish, irish-ish, bbq-ish - relaxed fusion cooking I guess!)

She was a very nice relaxed speaker and as Deirdre comment she really charmed us all. 

 

And she was talented at what she does - both the cooking, and the talking while she cooked - she made it all look effortless.



Rozanne bbq'd a lobster with herb(ish!) butter on the new Calor mini-bbq which is a dinky little thing! 

Check it out - it stacks together like a little picnic basket and when you take it apart it forms a prep area and a cooking area. 

 

It's a very clever gadget in my opinion.  But Deirdre and I did comment that it is a very small cooking area and wondered it it would be big enough for using for more than two people.  But it definitely would be great for a romantic picnic avec deux :-)

 



Here is the lovely lobster, butter and salad dish that Rozanne made - with her own home made dressing made with verjuice: I think Deirdre might have been the only person in the room who knew what verjuice was (juice from green grapes) - she's a foodie :-)

And finally Lindt chocolate!

 

Big thanks to the Gibson and Rozanne.  It was a very enjoyable night.

 

If you are planning a bbq event in Dublin I'd certainly reccomend

you investigate the The Gibson Hotel - the food was phenomenal and the hotel itself is very cool.