Muddy Murphy's Irish Pub

Muddy Murphy's is not often associated with food from a full menu, so imagine my surprise when I heard that they were launching a lunch menu.

On a recent visit, I managed to visit the pub, helmed by the young General Manager turned chef in his 20s.

I started with the Pork and Pea Soup, which was an interesting bacon tasting green soup with strong pork flavours. The other starter, the Spinach and Camembert Salad was lighter and refreshing, with lots of fruity flavours.

For the main course I had the Gammon braised in Cider, a traditional Irish dish. The cider added a nice sweet finish to the four pieces of salted ham.

Meanwhile, the Grilled Lamb Chops was also another well-executed dish. With a slight gamy finish, the lamb was grilled to perfection with a nice tender chew on each bite.

For the traditional beer guzzler, there is always the beef burger which is really beefy and they use a 100% meat patty which is done in-house.

Desserts are also a must-try here, particularly the Apple Crumble which is done Irish style, with the apple skin all intact - giving a nice sweet and sour finish. The
Warm Chocolate Pudding is one for those who love their deep black chocolate. Overall, I must say that I was somewhat pleasantly surprised at the new menu, as the no foo-fa good cooking beat my expectations.
 

This place never fails to entertain! There is always a band, or a group of newcomers desperate to make friends, or an assortment of drunken singers or a birthday party. It puts a twist on staple pub food by making it far more tasty and unique, and offers these foods at affordable prices, for orchard. I'm a big fan of guinness and kilkenny, and they serve both well here. They will do Irish car-bombs, but be prepared for a 30 dollar drink. The food portions are big if you get anything in a basket, so bring along your group of friends. Sure, it's a white bar, but I like to liven it up by bringing my black friends, and we all do just fine, we've never had any problems. I prefer Muddy's to Molly Malones out at Boat Quay, this place just feels so drunkenly friendly and homely compared to Molly's, whose dark corners shut off friends from one another.

Go on, bring your group and try it out!

The Whitest bar in town. Sound system isn't very good when there are bands playing. The regulars seem to be expat men who have worked in Singapore for years and hold PR status. The staff are a mix of friendly-can't speak to customers. It depends on who serves you. The fish and chips are pretty good. Veggie pizza too. I usually stick to my regular order of vodka/ gin and sprite for my drinks and the occasional sweet liquers if I'm not in the mood for heavy drinking. If you are a regular you would recognize the Round Table. Not giving names, but they drink alot and get drunk and amuse you with their dancing. They serve Bulmers Cider too!

My bf and I decided to put our money vote at this place after a horrifying discovery that the place we originally wanted to go to - L'artisan Bistro and Bar - was ONLY serving their New Year's Eve set [shown below] for $75 nett per person. I felt too poor that night.

The last time I saw this Irish pub was during Christmas when the crowd was really good. So I surmised that the grub shouldn't be too bad. It wasn't. I had a bourbon coke for $8 [Happy Hour - discount of about $2 ] and later strawberry daiquiri [$16], my bf soda with blackcurrent [~$6], and we shared

1) tenderloin cubes with blue cheese dip [~ $18]
2) potato wedges with chilli crab dip [~$ 13]
3) irish stew [~$14]

I must say that Dish 1 was a surprise, and a good one at that. The beef cubes were juicy, tender and bite-sized hence super easy to savour. AND the cheese dip actually complemented the taste of those beef cubes. Yum.

As for Dish 2, recall the times when you order chilli crab at those famous seafood restaurants along East Coast and you wouldn't miss those fried buns to go with; now swap those buns with potato wedges. Great combi too. The dip wasn't cooked with crab sticks but real crab meat, or at least they tasted like real crab meat to me =p

I'm no gourmet critic so I don't have high expectations of IRISH stew.. but I roughly know how stew should taste like. This dish came steaming hot with generous servings of tender beef and carrot chunks and potato cubes that are NOT mashy! Still the gravy was smooth, thick and not too salty. Me likey =]

All in all, I love that my food is served hot - something not even restaurants at hotels manage to fulfill. So I enjoyed my food. So did my bf. Something else made me happy. This filling dinner for the two of us cost me $74.90. No extra GST or service charge. You do the math.

The tubby guy who served us played a great host. The waitresses were warm as well.
Guess I'll leave a bigger tip the next time I bring my gfs there.

I saught out this bar as I like to check out Irish bars when abroad to get a tastte of home, I was not too impressed though, I can't say what makes this bar "Irish", the atmosphere was not what I expected, the drinks were dissappointing and I could not find anything on the menu that I could say was truely Irish.

Guess What? The young man that I know so well and have been supporting for 2 years now, is now the GM of Muddy Murphy Pub...
Never dreamed of going there, but when I heard news that mr man, was there I had to see for myself.
Great value for the quality of food you get, not forgetting that this is a bar after all.
Fish n Chips were extremely well done and the mushroom soup, although a little plastic, did the job. All washed down with a glass of wine, I had a super time with my colleagues.
The service suites the ambience and I don't know why I hadn't come here before! Sad to hear Bjorn is no longer cooking, but at least he still entertained me.

Something Great to come!

Don't let the large expatriate crowd deter you.

Since the others have mentioned it, the fish and chips are good fare here. It's dory but it's fresh and the batter is crispy and light. Don't forget to ask for the malt vinegar for the chips.

They also do a pretty good Sunday Roast which comes with appetisers, mains and desserts. The menu changes weekly. The dessert is nothing to shout about but the other courses are better. The beef and lamb are done in medium only for this menu though. It's $25 for all three courses; $20 gets you either dessert or soup with the entree.

There's bar food only at night (read, smaller, expensive portions). Go for the lamb chops (nicely grilled, and I found myself gnawing on the bone), the mussels (drench the bread in the sauce!) and the mushroom toasts (think a patty-less BK Mushroom swiss).

Guinness on tap here is really fresh, and the housepours and liqueurs are $10-$11. Happy hour ends early at 7.30pm though, and there's live music or televised sports at the weekends. The service staff are very friendly and accomodating as well. It's easy to have fun here, the patrons often clap, dance and sing along to the live music, and while it's rowdy, I have yet to see any ugly.

Edit (2 March): No more mushroom toasts, but the juicy and tender beef cubes with blue cheese dip are a new winner.

The fish and chips served for lunch come with potatoes that appear hand-peeled, instead of the supermarket variety seen on the menu boards, and they taste a fair bit better. I'm not a fan of mushy peas but you get them too. The batter of the fish is nigh-on perfect in crispiness and colour, but the taste of cream dory (tradename for a freshwater catfish that's quite bland) pales in comparison to marine fish like cod.

Heard so much about this place and finally with a prod from ice, I came here with a fren to check out the famous beer batter fish and chips.

We ordered the famous beer batter fish and chips of course and then we were thinking what else to try when an item on the menu caught my eye. :) Its Poached Cod in Almond Milk!!! Mmmmmm its really something different as I have not tried cod that is poached in almond milk before.

Poached cod in Almond Milk:
Although the cod is poached in almond milk, there isn't any almond taste (or perhaps its too faint for me to taste). But its real smooth and the fish flakes part ever so easily at slight pressure of the knife to reveal gleaming white flesh covered with the almond milk reduction. Perhaps the smoothness is also partly due to being poached in the almond milk, just like how milk benefits our fair complexion, ladies? Hee...

The almond milk reduction is really not for those who hates almond, but will be loved by almond lovers. :)

Beer batter fish N chips:
At first glance, it just looks like normal fish and chips with the glistening of the oil on the batter under the light. As I took the first bite of the fish, the slight crisp and crunch of the batter coupled with the freshness of the fish sure got my attention. Then came the after taste that surprised me. There was this hint of spice from the batter, which I can't place where. Its just a slight spice cum tingling sensation on the tongue. Not sure if this was just a fig of my imagination as my fren did not have the same after taste. Next few bites were interpersed with either the tartar or the recommended malt vinegar.

Chips were normal though. Same goes for the other sides for the poached cod.

For dessert, fren and I both had the Homemade Guinness Chocolate Mousse each. Its not exactly mousse per se 'cos its not as soft as how mousse is. Its bit more dry with a slight bitterness (not too sweet, just nice for me). In this case, I am not very sure if the bitterness stems from the guiness use too. 'Cos I am unable to taste the Guinness. Still, I love the dessert and it was indeed a very good way to end the meal. :)

Mmmm. the best fish and chips around town is def here.... its not as if you can taste the beer in the batter but more of the lightness and crispy crunch of the fried bits that get you going... Fish is fresh and flaky with a hearty serving of fries. Just ask for the malt vinegar and have it the traditional way!

They also serve a very good Guiness beef pie with a flaky puff pastry top... Lunch time food is alot better than the snacks they serve just get there early before 230pm. (more excuses to start on your Heinekein early wa ha ha)

The interior of the pub is actually transport brick by brick from Dublin so i heard... The dark wood is actually very cosy and they have a fireplace with 2 rocking chairs in a corner... *cute*