Peacock Cafe - Dublin

Atmosphere is nice. It's an easy place to eat if you are solo. I think I had some sort of pate with sour dough bread. It cost about ten Euro. The pate was good but the sour dough bread consisted of a few slivers of thin hard bread like a few potato crisps. Not what I expect when I order sour dough bread! So it was a tasty but very tiny snack, not enough for a light pre theatre meal. My advice is, ask them about the quantity of food in your dish before you place the order or you may be hungry at the play. Service very friendly but the food does not match.

Visited the cafe a couple of weeks ago and was really looking forward to a well made sandwich and a bowl of soup. Soup was nice but having asked for a Cajun sandwich I was presented with a soggy mess. I couldn't make out what the sauce on the chicken but it wasn't Cajun. Tasted more like sweet and sour. Genuinely hope it improves because it is a nice setting.

Located in the lower level of the Abbey Theatre in the heart of Dublin, this cafe is a convenient option for a pre-theatre dinner. While the atmosphere feels more like a cafe than a restaurant, we found that about 1/3 of the items on the menu were unavailable. The goats cheese tart turned out to be more of a quiche with a subtle taste of goats cheese, overshadowed by an overpowering flavor of egg. The cooked ham dish was a generous portion accompanied by numerous overcooked vegetables. Dessert options were limited to either carrot cake or apple pie. Overall, the food was average, and while it may not be worth a special trip for dining alone, it serves as a convenient choice for those attending a performance at the Abbey Theatre.

I was bringing my elderly mother to the Abbey as a birthday treat and we chose to eat here due to the convenience and positive reviews. There are so many good value pre theatre menus in the city with two courses for 20 22 euro, while here you're likely to spend 8 10 on a starter and 15 on a main. As it closes at 7:30, this means it is a similar price to really good restaurants for a meal at this time in Dublin. Desserts are simply a choice from the daytime pastries etc and are inexpensive (3 4 euro). The service was welcoming, but the food we had was really not good. The menu is limited and out of 6 (I think) main courses, 3 came with pastry which neither of us are keen on, so we both chose the lamb tagine. It came almost like a soup, with a little yogurt and a very small bowl of very cold cous cous on the side, and miniscule amounts of lamb I counted 4 tiny pieces in mine right at the bottom of the bowl. We asked for a side salad as well, which we were given but some of the leaves were on the turn (yellowing and slimy) and there was no dressing. For dessert we had a nice but dry almond traybake. I mentioned the lack of lamb to the man on the till and he just said something about the kitchen maybe not checking the bowls. It felt like whoever was in the kitchen didn't really know what they were doing, and it was the strangest and most disappointing meal I've had in Dublin in a long time I ended up thinking that maybe there was no chef there last night. I really hope the Peacock can improve as there are so many good places in the city and this place is a good idea in theory, but they really need to overhaul the menu and offer more variety and some skill in the cooking. Maybe we caught them on a bad night?

Before attending a show at The Abbey Theatre, we decided to dine at The Peacock for dinner. The menu was limited, but the service was welcoming and the food was exquisite.