Billy Byrne’s Bar

Great service got what I wanted fabulous full breakfast yummy and staff friendly totally right recommend …

I had the Deep Fried Cod (€ 9.25). Basically it was fish and chips served with garden salad and tartar sauce. I loved it… even though it wasn’t GF. At first, I pushed off the crispy golden batter off the cod but then, I couldn’t help myself and I ate it! Oh Lordy… so naughty of me! I had me some of that delicious Bulmers’ Cider again.

I can’t really comment on Billy Byrne’s efficacy as a drinking hole, as a drop did not pass my lips in the time that I was there. All that I will say is that as a very touristy-​inclined city, Byrne’s seemed like a very local pub. Though I suppose any pub would at two in the afternoon, as tourists tend to wait til a more respectable hour to start drinking.
Anyhow, the reason that I was at Billy Byrne’s was for a cooked breakfast, and they do a damn fine one.
My default position as to cooked breakfasts is to go for the largest one on the menu. Black pudding, white pudding, mushrooms, it’s all good, lay it on me. But in Billy Byrne’s, I had to take the very unusual step of ordering the second biggest breakfast on the menu, the Full Irish Breakfast. Before all you «real men» start calling me a pussy and asking me if the position of my sanitary towel is irritating me, consider this. The Full Irish Breakfast is pretty substantial: 2x Rashers, 2x Sausages, pudding (black and white), fried egg, toast, beans, mushrooms and tea, all at a snip of € 7.50. The biggest breakfast on the menu, though, the Monster Breakfast, contains all of the above, except that it’s 3x sausages, 3x rashers and 2x fried eggs.
I for one think that this is overkill, and that anyone foolhardy enough to tackle this monstrous amount of protein and grease would be sure to rupture a ventrical or two.
The fried breakfast was damn good, they give you plenty of toast, and don’t mind getting you things that aren’t necessarily keeping to the spirit of the arrangement (like, say, jam) gratis.
Another of the attractions of Byrne’s is that it’s only a hop and skip away from the train station (which is also where Bus Éireann buses depart from), so if you on the tail end of a boozy weekend and are in need of some fried ballast to face the prospect of a journey, Billy Byrne’s is your only man.