C'est à l'étage de l'épicerie fine Food Hall que se déploie l'excellent Fallon & Byrne. Dans une ambiance de brasserie à l'irlandaise, on profite de produits finement sélectionnés et écologiques, d'une large carte des vins et de cocktails tout simplement fabuleux, à l'image du Dublin Mule ou du Green Samouraï. Citons quelques plats, histoire de se mettre en appétit : Aged Irish beef carpaccio ou huîtres en entrée ; canard confit croustillant, saumon grillé ou entrecôte en plat de résistance, cheesecake maison ou expresso-martini au dessert.
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Upon asking if they are still serving as we were ignored for about three minutes standing in front of the counter the answer was a loud "WHAT"?!?
After some eyerolling one of the butchers decides to serve us ... we ask for a 120g cut of the Wagyu (which is the weight their pre-cut steaks usually were, good enough for a quick blow torch sear) more eyerolling and a cheeky answer: "That is gonna be very thin, are you sure about that?"
For a butcher shop where not a single steak bought so far (we had bought wagyu cuts that had more than half centimeter difference between sides) was properly cut this is very interesting behaviour.
This was after a series of bad experiences in the past, and still I went back as I don't feel like driving to Sutton every time I want to have a somewhat decent steak.
Other than that, the rest of the shop doesn't fare much better, truffles are kept exposed to light and the ones we were stupid enough to buy were not edible anymore, olive oil and aceto selection is really poor quality at really high prices. Same with most other products.
Shame, and better to avoid as currently there is much better products to be found in smaller shops around town.
One redeeming quality is the bakery which is solid, nothing extraordinary but still better than shops like Dunnes and the like. Some of the fresh produce is also decent.