Molly Malone's Irish Pub

haha YOU ARE WRONG!!! I care about the food over at molly's.. it's hungrygowhere not thirstygowhere okie??? *hehe smiling stupidly at my own little "witty" remark*... alrite i gotta admit.. who cares about food when there's kilkenny on tap?? c'mon kilkenny is like god-send! okie an irish god so oh my irish god... kilkenny rocks!

Alrighty enuff about the bloody kilkenny and get on with the food! It's hungrygowhere rem? *smiling stupidly again* ... wait wait ambience 1st? well it's an irish pub so imagine barrel tables woody chairs and green everywhere... warm cozy and yet vibrant atmosphere makes a great chill-out location...

So if u r hungry..wat's there to eat at Molly's? For juz pub grub...I would usually grab e potato wedges with the chilli-tar tar sauce! Nice thick and fat wedges with e interesting chilli dip goes well with beer... e chilli-tar tar sauce reminds me of chilli crab chilli sauce so go for it if it's ya thing..

For mains i would definitely go for the signature fish and chips and the irish lamb stew... The fish and chip is their signature dish and it's quite tasty to their credit.. two pieces of beer battered dory fried to a crispy gold with a generous amount of pui pui fries and delicious tar tar sauce is quite a yum.. there's also this bottle of vinegar tat i absolutely lurve to have a dash (well many dashes) on my fish.. lovely!

The irish lamb stew is a fave too as there's chunks of tender lamb and potatoes n carrots stewed to a lovely flavour.. it comes with a side of mashes potatoes and boy this is yummy! haha i lurvve mashed potato so this goes great with e stew gravy...

I've tried other mains before but it's not really worth mentioning... juz stick to e safe bets down a few kilkenny and u will b a happy person!

Monday (17 Mar 08). Came here with JC, AC, NS, QQ and CP to partake in the Saint Patrick's Day festivities. (Just an excuse to down pints.)

Total damage for the night:
4 pints of Guinness (Happy Hour) $12 each
0.5 pint (Happy Hour) $10
4 pints $14.50 each
1 basket of chips $7

The chips were lovely! They were served piping hot and had a very nice texture. They were lightly salted and tasted great. The accompanying sauce was nice too.

We enjoyed ourselves very much clowning around with the hats that were given out.

During Happy Hour,
1.0 pint costs $12 nett
0.5 pint costs $10 nett.
Lesson learnt - Next time, just get a pint and throw away what you can't finish.

17 March 2008 : It was St Patrick's Day... and i did not give a hoot about what that means. I was just looking forward to doing time in the sweatshop and running off to this drinking place to gather with the Happi Family (AC, NS, CP, 77, RL & I). This was CP's suggestion... and it was a good suggestion. We checked out a few pubs on the next street and decided to just squeeze with the crowd at Molly's because it was really cool and there was a band playing music.

Another reason why the Happi family was attracted to this place was because we all wanted the green st patrick's day hat. =o) Like a bunch of kiddos with abit of pocket money, we were willing to drink so that we can get the 2 types of hats.

We ordered :
1st round - 4.5 pints of Guinness
2nd round - 3 pints of Guinness
3rd round - 1 pint of Guinness
TOTAL - 8.5 pints of Guinness
with an order of chips to go with the Guinness

We had a jolly good time and we were seated upstairs away from the crowd. It was great fun as we guzzled down the Guinness like unpolished and unschooled peasants. I was so happy to have my green hats =o) For once... I was mainly attracted to the hats and not the booze.

To Molly Malone's for lunch today (27 Feb, Wed) with my regular lunchies.

The highly recommended Tuna Melt literally 'melted' my mid-week blues away, with the generous amount of melted cheese - Yummy!

The Fish & Chips were pretty good, except some pieces had a little too much batter than fish. I personally loved the fat fries, generous amount!

Caesar Salad with Chicken is quite alright, though not the best I had, but good enough for me. The amount of chicken in the salad is just right, not too miserly. =)

Nice, quiet place to enjoy a weekday lunch.

Some colleagues and I went to Molly Malone's for lunch after an excruciatingly dry and boring SAP training session at Clifford Centre (now you know why SAP consultants are paid so much: to compensate for the boredom!)... I digress....

Anyways, the food is decent, standard bar food. Just go for the Fish and Chips. Don't order the sausages and finger food... they taste like they came straight out of a can. But do have the Guinness draught =) Actually just go there for the beer... eat somewhere else before you go.

The place is nice and quiet at lunch time. Good to go if you wanna chill out after spraining your brain trying to figure out SLocs and FLocs. I've only ever looked from outside at night. Have never been tempted to step into the crowd.

Molly Malone's is a place that is never void of customers. Throughout the day, you will find people in it, conversing over a pint or quart. Whether in the day or night, you'd find a varied mix of nationalities converging there. Of course, being an Irish pub, it's likely you'll find more Caucasian expats than you would Singaporean bengs. What's interesting is that these "expats" don't seem to work at all! Everytime I walk pass, whether 11am in the morning, 3-4pm in the afternoon, I'll see a group of angmohs there. The nice thing about Molly's is that you don't find SPGs there looking for a "catch". Instead, you get the smart looking local professionals chatting and drinking next to smart looking expat (white) professionals/tourists.

Besides serving Irish ale, you'd find a pretty nice menu of typical pub grub that includes Fish and Chips, Shephard's pie and Sampler Platters. All oily deep fried stuff that goes well beer.

My personal favourite is the Fish and Chips that comes with the most beautiful fat fries (chunky fries) that are served in their golden moist glory. Their dory fish is also fat and chunky and tastes wonderful with the batter. Honestly, this version of the Fish and Chips is better than most of the places in Singapore and Australia.

Priced at $16, it is not cheap. But it does come with 6 big pieces of Dory and a generous portion of chips (fat fries. If you want shoe string, please go to McDonalds). Now that I'm halving my intake, I shared a portion of F&C today with a friend. Add a coffee after my meal, I'm still full at 8pm (I ate at 1pm)

Another distant favourite is the Shephards Pie. Served with real mash potato (meaning, not from powder) on top of beef bolognese (cooked on premise). It's hearty and also very large.

Another item I've had is the beef stew. Like the Shephard's pie, this is another hearty chunky dish that lines your stomach for the onslaught of ale.

One item I wouldn't order is the sampler platter which is really not worth the price. It come with some buffalo wings, meat balls, sausage and some other stuff.

If you are really really full and just want a drink, you can order a serving of their "fat" chips. Served with 3 different dips/chutneys, you'll never be able to stomach the rubbish that fast food joints serve.

5 tips when going to Molly's:
1) For food, go in the afternoon. After 5pm, the place becomes mainly a drinking place
2) Try the Irish beer. Then if you are really a beer connoisseur, you can walk down to Archipelago Breweries at the end of the road and order "local" beer and compare the flavours.
3) Go on St Patrick's Day, Molly becomes the Singapore "host" and has an annual event with irish music and all.
4) Try the Fish and chips.
5) Don't order the sampler platter