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Occasionally something surprising happens, and you find a great meal where perhaps you weren’t expecting it. Step forward John and Martha Davies who own a restaurant in Portarlington Golf Course called Courtfields. I got an e mail from John a while back and took a look at his website. All fairly standard golf club stuff until I noticed the dessert menu. It’s long, it’s perhaps a seventies revival and its all home made. If they can make all this from scratch, I thought, we have to try this.
The golf club is about a mile outside town, and it is a modern clubhouse. The restaurant is on the first floor, overlooking the eighteenth green. The décor is nice, the room is airy and the welcome is big. We took a table by the window on a warm summer’s day and took our menus.
There are about eight starters and include things like prawn cocktail, melon fan, chicken liver pate and breaded mushrooms with garlic dip. Main courses are a little more exciting, there’s bacon and cabbage, cod in batter, salmon en croute, pan fried fresh hake and a couple of steaks. Deirdre doesn’t want a starter, so I pick the prawn cocktail and for the main courses Deirdre goes for the cod, while I choose the hake with two sauces.