Rising Tide Restaurant & Bar (The)

The Rising Tide Restaurant & Bar

Run by Phil and Ted Murphy and daughter Sandra, this pub has a long history of serving the local community. It’s gastro reputation is rising as high as the tide itself!  Local produce forms the basis of a comprehensive menu of bar food and snacks, as well as the substantial lunch and dinner menus on offer each night.  The first thing to do on arrival, is grab a drink from the bar – it could a warming cup of tea or freshly made coffee, a glass of wine, a shot of a favourite tipple, or a beer or pint of creamy stout.  Then grab a seat  in the open lounge area, where windows look out directly over the outside lawn and garden tables  to the water beyond.  You can choose a high stool in the casual bar area,  to make the most of the views.  Or opt for comfy banquette seating at the tables nearby.  For more formal dining at lunch or evening, the rear restaurant area is newly decorated and spacious.  When you’ve made up your mind where you’re sitting, ask for the menu. It might take you a while to decide what to eat – the choice is extensive.

The Brasserie Lunch Menu always features a vegetable based soup of the day with homemade breads – which could be an old fashioned brown soda or something more adventurous with the addition of pesto or sundried tomatoes. Fresh Poached Salmon, Cod and Haddock Chowder is also worth a shot – lovely chunks of fish in a creamy broth. Rising Tide’s Herb Crumb Fishcakes are a mix of fresh fish, lemony potato and crisp herb crumb coating. For mains, choose a plate of Fresh Atlantic Scampi with organic salad and chips, a home made gourmet beef burger with carameilised onions and mozzarella, or the famous Rising Tide Fish and Chips.  The latter is very popular, and hand cut chips are served in a mini newspaper cone.  Lighter offerings include Toasted Doorstep Sandwiches or a cold Seafood Platter with smoked salmon, tuna and prawns in marie rose sauce.  The board always has specials too – in our case the starters featured Jack McCarthy’s Boar’s head pudding with Smoked Salmon Roulade stuffed with cream cheese.  To follow,  the wonderfully moist steamed Cod with Pesto, sundried tomatoes and sprightly rocket leaves was vibrant in taste and colour. 

In the evening, things move up a notch.  A very good value Early Bird menu is served for eager diners. The A la Carte which changes with the seasons, could include Flash Fried fresh Calamari with Spicy Tomato sauce, or Shredded Skeaghanore Duck Salad – the duck comes from a small family farm in West Cork – served with chickpeas and rustic potatoes.  Local mussels are house speciality  – enjoy them in as classic Mariniere with lots of juice for dunking that bread, oven baked on the half shell with garlic and herb crumbs, or with a creamy sauce of Cork based Murphy’s Stout. The seawater tank  holds local oysters and sometimes lobsters too.  Oysters are served as they come, or baked with stout and walnuts or garlic and herbs.  Choose three, six, nine or the whole platter of twelve – we guarantee you won’t be disappointed. Lamb and Beef from Cork butchers are given the chef’s treatment at dinner time, and for vegetarians, big fleshy Portabello Mushrooms are topped with East Cork’s Ardsallagh Goat’s Cheese and served with home made pesto. The separate pastry kitchen here ensures a fine selection of homemade desserts – too numerous to mention but all absolutely delicious and tempting!   

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Glounthaune Village
Co Cork
021 4353233
Email: sandra_risingtide@hotmail.com
Web: www.therisingtide.ie

 

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