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On Sunday nights, we serve a buffet style dinner from 7:30pm - 8:30pm. It is a house speciality and is served by the Allen Family. All the food is prepared during the afternoon, such as prime cuts of roast beef, lamb, pork, turkey and sometimes goose or duck from a local farmer’s wife. Crab, salmon, oysters and lobster come from local fishermen as available. Soups, smoked fish, shellfish, pates and salads start the meal and the sweet trolley comes at the end.
Breakfast is served daily from 8am to 10.30am
Fresh Orange Juice or Fresh Grapefruit Juice
Breakfast Fruit Salad
(Prunes, Apricots, Banana, Raisins)
Ballymaloe Muesli
(Nut and Grain)
Fresh Fruit Museli
Porridge ~ our porridge is made from Macroom Stoneground Oatmeal
Rashers, Sausages, Free -Range Eggs, Mushrooms and Tomatoes
Black and White Pudding
Free-Range Eggs (from our own hens)~ Boiled, Poached, Scrambled or Fried
Fresh Fish as available
Selection of Homemade Breads
Tea or Coffee
Lunch is served at 1.00 p.m
During the week we offer a 'table d'hote' menu. For residents light meals can be ordered any time during the day through Reception.
On Sunday there is a hot buffet table. It is best to be there at 1 pm to get the food at its best.
Dinner is served between 7.00 pm and 9.30 pm
There are five courses on the Ballymaloe Dinner Menu. It consists of a seasonal selection of soup, fresh fruit or garden salad starter. Second courses are a choice of homemade pâtés, fresh fish, pasta, bruschetta et cetera. Main courses usually cover six choices, fish, fowl, meats and vegetarian. Desserts are largely based on the fruits of the season and cheeses are mostly local.
Friday starts with an 'Hors D'Oeuvres' buffet with a large selection of fresh shellfish, garden salads and homemade pâtés.
On Sunday night dinner from 7.30 pm – 8.30 pm is a freshly cooked cold buffet containing a wide choice of fresh shellfish, homemade pâtés, vol au vent, canapés and local vegetable salads.
Dinner € 75.00
Lunch € 40.00
Service Charge Optional
The Wine List
The wine list is something to browse over before dinner. The cellar has been slowly built up over the years by the late Ivan Allen. Now his grandson Sacha Whelan and sommeliers Colm McCan & Samuel Chantoiseau look after the wine. Our wines feature alongside the good food awards in various guides.
We are unusual these days in that we still buy stocks of fine vintage wines to lay down. This enables us to offer mature wines from Bordeaux, Burgundy and the Rhône Valley as well as Vintage Port, as we did 25 years ago.
Equally important to us are the wines from Spain and Italy, each having a page of the list featuring some of their better and lesser known wines, as well as wines from all over Europe and from wine regions all over the world. Please email res@ballymaloe.ie for our current wine list.
Also significant, although less numerous is our selection from Australia, New Zealand, North and South America and South Africa. Organic and Biodynamc wines are noted on our list.
This list is constantly evolving as stock rotates, we are happy to e-mail our most up-to-date list on request.
Summer 2010, we launched an Electronic Wine List at Ballymaloe.
Using an Apple iPAD, we have one of our wine lists now in electronic format!
Our red and white wine of the month, from dynamic Domaine de l’Hortus, Pic-St-Loup, Languedoc, are featured, alongside a short video of Yves Orliac, in Ballymaloe, talking about his area, terroir, winemaking and the wines. We welcomed Yves to Ballymaloe during the summer, and we made a short video specially for the iPAD ‘Wine List’ at Ballymaloe.
Yves Orliac was delighted to be the first listing on our interactive video and information page on our electronic wine list. Our guests are really enjoying it, and the wine!
We organise a number of wine events and wine courses throughout the year, please email us if you would like to be added to the wine event mailing list, res@ballymaloe.ie. We run the twice yearly Wine Weekend Courses with Mary Dowey, in the Spring every year, and also Wine for the Festive Season with John McDonnell and Colm McCan, held just before Christmas each year. Previous wine events here at Ballymaloe also have included World of Wine with Jancis Robinson MW, in 2008 held in aid of Wine Relief, annd also the Moet Hennessey Estates and Wines Five Winemakers Food and Wine Workshops at the Ballymaloe Cookery School, and the Five Winemakers Dinner here at Ballymaloe House in 2009, and we hold winemaker dinners throughout the year.
Winemaker lunch with Silvia Allegrini
Winemaker Lunch at Ballymaloe House, Tuesday 28th September 2010,
with Silvia Allegrini, Allegrini Wines, Veneto, Italy, in association with Liberty Wines.
We are delighted to be welcoming Silvia Allegrini to Ballymaloe, and over lunch Silvia will talk about her wines.
The Allegrini family has been handing down grape growing and wine producing traditions over many generations, playing a major role in the Valpolicella Classico area, near Verona, as far back as the 16th century. Their wine has charmed the most refined palates around the world, building on the historic value of Amarone della Valpolicella. They produce the Valpolicella, a Ripasso style wine, called Palazzo della Torre, and of course, Amarone della Valpolicella. They also produce the amazing sweet Amarone, Recioto della Valpolicella.
12.00pm for reception, followed by lunch and wines €40
For bookings, please contact Ballymaloe directly at 021 4652531 e-mail: res@ballymaloe.ie
The Georgina Campbell Wine Award of the Year 2010
Food and Wine Magazine 'Wine Experience of the Year' Nomination 2010
Lonely Planet Top 10 Weekend Courses 2010
Wine Spectator Award of Excellence 2009
The Daily Telegraph Top 10 Wine-tasting Wine Courses UK & Ireland
