Showing posts with label Galway. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Galway. Show all posts

Saturday, 5 September 2015

Galway (Ireland): Oslo (pub), review



Oslo is quietly located in front of the Salthill beach, 15 min walking distance from the city center. It's one of the few places that sell the locally brewed craft beer Galway Bay Brewery.




You can also have food here, vegan options include
- falafel burger with salad and home-cut chips
- Lentil Dhal
- hummus Salad (main course) 
- pita bread and hummus
- olives 



The falafel burger is delicious and highly recommendable.

Their craft beer range is naturally vegan except for the Buried at Sea beer which contains lactose (milk chocolate stout). 
You can have Full Sail (IPA), Bay Ale (Red Ale), Of Foam and Fury (double IPA) or Dortmunder Lager; or try one of their many guest beers from around the world (tap or bottle). You'll never have to repeat a beer here !

Actually finding vegan beer is very easy, most craft beers are vegan, forget the industrialized beer and go for small batches of craft beer; unless it's a stout (may get filtered through fish bladder) or have some milk or oyster flavor you should be fine. The usual ingredients in a beer are malt, yeast, water and hops and you can even find gluten free beer nowadays.
Happy days, beer and burger what else do you want by the beach? :)

Galway (Ireland): Pure Raw Cafe, review

 

Two words: Raw Cheesecake (vegan ofc!). No refined sugar too! Cashew, cocoa, agave, walnuts and coconut oil.

It's delicious and highly recommended with their espresso. It's hard to find a good espresso in Ireland, short, packed with flavour and topped with foam. 

Thursday, 20 August 2015

Galway (Ireland): High Cafe restaurant, review


Great restaurant to have dinner or lunch in Galway, in the west of Rep. Ireland. You would need to book a table as the demand here is high.

Located very well, just off the end of the busy Shop Street, near to pubs and shops.

A Plus: this is a BYOD restaurant (Bring your own drink) meaning you can bring a wine bottle to the restaurant and they won't charge you corkage. No sodas or beer allowed from home.

They have several vegan options (although not marked in their menu as vegan) such as:


  • Veggie couscous
  • Vegan pizzas (on demand, below is the Grilled Veggie pizza with no cheese)
  • Vegan calzone (you get to choose the ingredients)
  • Pasta dishes (On demand, below is the king prawn pasta and instead of prawns just ask them for mushrooms)




They also have loads of gluten free options. I rate this

10/10 for the quality of food
8/10 for the decoration
10/10 for staff's friendliness 
10/10 for the price*

* around 12 euros per person (no drink)