THE FOOD

Would you like delcious food at your wedding or celebration? This is our thing. Whether it’s served on platters, or a zany BBQ with sides for that festival feel, or an elegant silver service that will impress Aunty Gladys, it will have quality & cracking good flavours.

OUR FOOD PHILOSOPHY


The focus of our food is always on getting the best flavour in every dish. Sue & Dave have always cooked the family meals from scratch and they’ve long been interested in new flavours and new dishes from Indian, Italian, French, Middle Eastern and Central & South American cuisines.

The family meal in the evening has always been an important part of our day – we sit down nearly every evening with candles lit and a glass of delicious wine to catch up on the day’s events.

We make most of our dishes from scratch in-house, including all our bread, desserts and pastry from, using fresh ingredients. Many of the dishes we cook for our guests are old family favourites that have been passed down from family and friends. Trips abroad to France, Spain, Italy, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, Peru and Mexico have inspired new dishes to add to the old favourites.

YOUR DINING EXPERIENCE


For your wedding day, we provide a delicious range of house-made canapés to whet the appetite followed by a 3-course banquet served either in the Castle for small parties or in the Great Barn for larger ones. After you and your guests have danced up an appetite we offer delicious late night snacks of gorgeous cheeses with crackers and crispy rolls as well as the all-important cocktails sausages!

Breakfast for you and your guests can be provided the next day, either the full fry-up or a tasty continental option.

We are also delighted to do next day barbecues with yummy burgers, sausages and delicious fresh salads and breads for those who want to keep the party going.

For birthdays, anniversaries and hen parties, we have 3 options for dinner in the Castle. A sumptuous 3-course dinner served to you and your guests in the candle-lit dining room with our delicious French wines and an optional cheese-course. For those who want a more relaxed vibe, we have two 2-course buffet options; either self-serve or served and cleared. You are also welcome to self-cater if you so wish

 

LOCALLY SOURCED INGREDIENTS


We always strive to source the highest quality ingredients from a range of excellent local suppliers.

Our meat comes from Thomas Doherty in Kells, Floods of Oldcastle and Jim Ryan in Ballinlough. Tommy’s award-winning black pudding features in one of our most popular dishes – black pudding & goat’s cheese tart. Flood’s supply excellent lamb and glorious free-range, organic chickens.
The inimitable Sheridan’s Cheesemongers in Virginia, Co. Cavan supply all of our cheeses, olives and cured meats.

All our wine is supplied by Alain Delhomme’s French Wine Unlimited a small company based in Dublin who focus on original and innovative wines from regional French vineyards.
Our fruit and vegetables come from FanFruit, a family-owned business with a passion for quality and service that has been supplying the food industry since 1991.

 

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From Our Kitchen

Check out our Blog for regular recipes from the Durhamstown Kitchen

  • Tarte Tatin

    Tarte Tatin, pears poached in wine, honey & star anise with stewed prunes & double cream. the tartness of the apple with the butteriness of the pastry & the inimitable flavour of a pear that now matter what you douse it with still tastes so wonderfully of pear & the utterly sinful prunes all swimming […]

  • Chicken Kebabs

    Chicken kebabs with yogurt marinade. A Greek dish. This is a lovely recipe & looks very cheffy! Get some free range chicken breast;one per person: cut them up – not too small as they will shrink. Make a marinade of yogurt, garlic, lemon juice, salt & pepper & a good tablespoon of chopped herbs. The […]

  • Eton Mess – Tidied Up!

    My version of Eton Mess.Thanks to our Commis Chef Trisha Duff I’m now the queen of meringues! These are homemade & the strawbs are organic-boy but that makes a difference! Another little tip to bring out the best in your strawberries; hull them, don’t wash them; quarter them & then sprinkle with sugar & a […]

  • Little Sister’s Shortbread

    This is the best Shortbread Recipe ever! It’s my little sister’s & she distributes it far & wide to the bewildered, the bereaved or the just plain hungry. Anyway-it’s 12 ozs of white flour; 8 oz of butter & just the merest 3 oz of sugar. You whizz it all together & then press it […]

  • Ruby’s Salad

    This is a little corker. You roast some whole almonds with the skin on, in a little oil. Watch them as they burn fairly easily; take some strips of Parma ham & bake them in the oven for a few minutes; get a bag or make yourself a good selection of mixed salad leaves; cut […]

  • Homemade Pizza!

    How about some steaming fresh-out-of-the-oven trays of Homemade Pizza! Pizza like you’ve never had it. The recipe is quite classical; no funny pineapple or any of that mullarkey-just well stewed tomato passata, excellent chorizo or salami, some good olives & a nice Cheddar cheese topping with a few olives scattered artfully on top. A good […]

  • Hake Baked In Lemon Wedges

    Hake baked in lemon wedges, parsley, baby mushrooms & tomatoes with lots of melted butter.This method is equally good with Salmon, Sea Bass, Cod, Trout etc.You just butter a low sided pottery dish, put your fish in; add in all the other ingredients; cover with foil & bake for 15-20 minutes but do keep a […]

  • Guess Whose Coming To Dinner

    Another dish where necessity was the Mother of Invention! An unexpected visitor, Thursday evening, not much to raid in the larder, so grabbed some spinach from the garden, fried up some streaky rashers lots of garlic, threw in some chopped mushrooms, a slug of cream & then popped the spinach on top where it wilted […]