beeftro

absolutely delicioussteakand up there with one of the best iv had, recommend theirsteaksauce, fillet and fries. their bread and butter pudding is fabulous also. red wine is good value but overall it is quite highly priced for a dundrum casual eatery

i visited beeftro in dundrum on a tuesday evening after the cinema and presumed there was no need to book on a weekday. i should have paid more attention to the reviews i read because when we arrived we were told it would be a half hour wait and that the only space to wait was outside. it was very cold, but our waitress was very attentive and friendly. we ordered a drink and didn't have to wait that long before we were seated inside for the remainder of the wait. the crowd subsided significantly after 9pm which indicates how good the early bird (which runs til 9 mon-thurs) is. i had the cheese and chorizo bread in mornay sauce to start - very rich and maybe a little heavy as a starter, but it was so tasty! i had to pawn some off to himself so i could still manage a main course afterwards. i had the black angus cheeseburger for mains and it was one of the best burgers i've had in a while. juicy and sweet and branded with the beeftro 'b' - a nice touch. he ordered a sirloin rumpsteak(and fabulous creamy pepper sauce which i could have drank with a straw it was so good) but from the a la carte menu because the early birdsteakis very small (7oz). the food was delicious, the staff were lovely and the whole thing (2 starters, 2 mains and 1 glass of wine) came to €50, even with him not on the early bird. not a bad night out at all!

beefro isn't anything to rave about in my opinion. i do like the food there but i don't find there's much flavour to the food apart from the roasted cheese and chorizo bread skillet and the bacon cheeseburger. the salads are a bit bland but thesteakis nice and they have it on the lunch menu for €9.95. it comes with fries and salad but i'd recommend ordering a side of their garlic and tarragon mushrooms with that too (for the extra flavour).

i've also had the 1/2 bbq spiced chicken with apple, fennel, raisin slaw and sweet potato fries but it wasn't really my thing and i found the chicken a bit dry. basically, if you go to beeftro make sure that you have the beef!

went on a saturday and have to say got great value for money using a voucher! had chicken wings to start,steakfor main and brownie for desert and a bottle of their house white. only fault was the service, the waiters were a bit aloof. would return but would expect much better service

last night a group of us decided to go to beeftro because we wanted somesteakto eat :) we arrived and straight away we got a table, the staff were very attentive and friendly ! - some of us ordered the starters, spicy chicken wings with blue cheese sauce, it was pretty tasty and surprisingly enjoyed the blue cheese sauce as it wasn't very strong ! one of my friends ordered a cheese and chorizo bread skillet and thought it was pretty delicious !
we all ordered steaks, one friend got the sirloin rump cooked medium rare and was cooked perfectly, but a other couple of friends got thinner cuts which resulted more of a medium well rather than medium rare! the best cuts ofsteakwe got out of the table would be the rib-eye cooked medium rare, it was very soft and delicious and cooked very well :) the night was very enjoyable and we would definitely go back again ! 😁

i spotted this place on twitter and had to try!

we went for the early bird menu which is amazing value and runs up until 9pm . starters got the french onion soup and omg is all the can say ,steakis cooked to perfection. highly recommend if you love steak.

i got thesteakin both beeftros to see if there was any difference. there's not. they're both amazing. see my review on the restaurant in balfe st. for more superlatives.

went there sunday night for boyfriend's dad birthday . greatsteakand velvety texture to the mash! good and quick service even though they were busy enough for sunday night . forgot to take pics of desserts but salted carmel and pecan sundae looks , and apparently tastes like heaven ( birthday man loved it!)

you really can’t beat a goodsteak. i always get mine rare and usually with some mash and pepper sauce… i’m always afraid to try another sauce in case i don’t like it and my meal is ruined!

we strolled in to the restaurant at about 8.30 on a saturday evening. i always make reservations but i guess with this being based at a shopping centre i didn’t really think it’d be too busy…. i was wrong! the place was buzzing and the waitress informed us that we’d have a bit of a wait for a table so we plonked ourselves at a table outside and wrapped a blanket around ourselves as it was baltic. only a few minutes later she came back out to us and explained they’d had a cancellation and so had a seat for us – thank god as we were starving by now!

tables are nicely spaced out and you aren’t sitting on top of your neighbours. the interior is clean cut but cosy with lots of dark wood and leather. we took our seats and were given a lovely little wooden basket of bread and decided on some wine first. a nice bottle of domaine corbellieres sauvignon blanc was priced at €32 and we went for that.

more importantly – onto the food! there was a pretty good mix, plenty to choose from including blue cheese, duck salad, calamari, chicken wings, carpaccio of beef & french onion soup – priced from about €5.50 to €12. for some reason i wasn’t in the mood for a starter but e got the french onion soup, €5.50. this came out in a lovely black iron dish and was piping hot! in my haste to try it, i burned the tongue off myself! the soup was so comforting and salty, just yum. e isn’t a fan of cheese and forgot to ask for it without, so i dutifully took chunks of the gorgeous melty cheese from the bowl and plonked it on the white bread… so i guess i had a starter anyway :-)

for mains the obvious choice is asteakand they have a few options. however if you aren’t in the mood for it, the other mains on offer are burgers and a few fish and chicken choices. we both went for the fillet, €29.50 (beginning to see a pattern here?!). the steaks come with a potato puree of your choice. i love anything spicy that burns your mouth a bit so went with the jalapeno chilli and e went for the bbq. next choice is your sauce, i’d heard rave reviews on the marrow sauce but was totally predictable and went for the pepper sauce. sauces are all separate and priced at €1.50 – possibly my only gripe with the whole restaurant experience, it’s not expensive but i kinda think your sauce should be included.

once the steaks arrived we made pretty short work of them. e always gets his well done, me always rare. i am not into well done beef at all but i will admit on tasting his, it was still really tender and tasted fab. mine was rare and beautifully soft and juicy.

we made bad choices with the sauce on our puree though. i’m not sure why we thought a chilli or bbq sauce on mash would pair well with the pepper sauce we both got…. both were equally tasty but the mixture of different sauces on our parts was silly – i should keep the jalepeno’s for my pizza in future! the pureed potatoes were absolutely to die for, not a lump in sight and so creamy and soft. the sauces on them were gorgeous when kept separate to our pepper sauces and as is the norm we cleared our plates.

after that we needed to take a bit of a breather. our wine had rapidly diminished so we had another look over the menu and decided to splash out on our fave white, a nice marlborough, new zealand called tin pot hut, €37. i adore this wine… it went down way too easily!

after a little break to let thesteakdigest we decided to share a dessert. we’re both full on chocaholics and it’s our first choice on any dessert menu. hot chocolate fondant with banana ice cream, €6.50…. how could you go wrong?! dessert arrived and oh. my. god. was it good! the chocolate sauce was smooth and just the right amount of sweet and bitter and the ice cream went perfectly with it. needless to say that lot got polished off too!

we sat over the second bottle of wine for quite a while. all evening while we were there, we’d seen a steady stream of people through the door and it only really started to quieten down at about 10.30. i predict beeftro will only get more and more popular as they serve just great quality food. we both agreed it was spot on in beeftro and will most definitely return – next time i’ll try the truffle puree and marrow sauce!

beeftro opened in the pembroke district in dundrum town centre a while back, i visited not long after it opened but wasn’t in ‘review mode’ so didn’t take pictures or think too much about it and just enjoyed what i ate, intending to be back to it not long afterwards. the ‘not long afterwards’ turned into a few months, just one of those things that every time we went to go back, something else got in the way. so on a random tuesday earlier this week after one of ‘those day’s in work, i needed wine, and meat… so beeftro it was.

it wasn’t too busy on arrival so we got a lovely table for 2 in the window. inside beeftro is classic bistro style – think french meets american… dark wood, white tiles, mirrors, dark red leather, marble…

we were given the regular menu, wine list and the early bird. the early bird is really excellent value at €19.50 for 2 courses and €24.50 for 3 courses and is available 5pm – 9pm monday – wednesday.

beeftro goats cheesethere was a special starter of liver pate which was also available on the early bird. i decided to go with that, followed by the beeftro bourguignon. he decided to start with a crispy goats cheese salad and follow it with the sirloin rump which is served with a potato puree and pepper sauce on the side. we added a side of fries (but to be honest didn’t need them!).

on the wine list they have certain wines indicated as good pairings to steaks so from that list, we chose a portugese red – azamor, a blended variety including syrah, touriga nacional, merlot, trincadeira, alicante bouschet, mouvedre and petit verdot – a dark, full bodied and juicy red, ideal with thesteakand bourguignon. at €36 its a treat but more than worth it.

the starters were very good, the goats cheese salad was a nice take on a staple with the crispy fried cheese. the pate was presented beautifully, with grilled toasts beside it. the main courses were definitely the stars of the show.. the sirloin arrived unadorned on the plate, just it alone. for rumpsteakthe quality was amazing, it was cooked perfectly medium as requested, chargrilled on the outside and inside, pink and tender. a puree potatoe and pepper sauce came with thesteakand for someone who doesn’t like mashed potato (him), he did a fairly good job of it! my bourguignon was simply stunning… loved how it was presented (which can be hard with dishes like this) and tasted just as good as it looked. there was nothing i could fault in this dish and i’m still thinking of just how delicious it was.

we had no room for dessert so instead squeezed in a 50cl carafe of one of the house reds, a spanish tempranillo/syrah/cabernet, which at €17 is well priced.

we were really impressed with our 2nd visit to beeftro. its a lovely spot for a night out or indeed a break from shopping, and i’m looking forward to my next beef fix at beeftro…