Our Latest Great Place To Eat - Russborough Tea Rooms
Tuesday 12 August 2014
Russborough House, in Blessington, Co. Wicklow, is one of the finest stately homes in Ireland. A wealthy Dublin brewer named Joseph Leeson, who later became the first Earl of Milltown, built it in the 1740’s and over the course of his life filled it with great works of art and exquisite furnishings. The house stayed in his family until the early 20th century when Sir Alfred Beit, who installed his family’s priceless art collection, including works by artists such as Velasquez and Vermeer, purchased it. The house eventually passed to the Alfred Bait Foundation and today it is open to the public, who continue to arrive in their numbers to see the house, explore the grounds and enjoy a bite to eat in an atmosphere that is truly inimitable.
The Russborough Tea Rooms are a great addition to this wonderful estate and offers its patrons a fantastic array of soups, salads and sandwiches not to mention a selection of desserts that are simply to die for, all set in a cool chic café that maintains the historical atmosphere of this wonderful place. When I was there last, the menu had an extensive selection of homemade soups and brown breads to start, which included potato & fennel, carrot & orange, parsnip & smoked bacon, curried parsnip & apple, courgette & almond and a lot lot more. My other half went for their tomato, celeriac & coriander, which arrived with a healthy portion of their delicious homemade brown bread. I, on the other hand, was more in the mood for one of their salads, of which there were many. They had a beetroot and fresh yoghurt salad, a French bean salad with bacon, an oriental noodle salad and even a salad of cous cous with sun dried tomatoes and mint leaves. I opted for their carrot, mange tout and poppy seed salad and I was glad that I did.
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