The Buttery
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Location:
Trinity College, in Front Square
Visited:
over 3 years ago
Reviewed by:
Martin McKenna
Rating:
Trinity College’s cafeteria, open to the public, was renovated and mostly improved in September 2007 in an effort to distance themselves from their “greasy spoon” image, to quote their director of catering. They succeeded in dutifully adding panini and smoothies to the menu but the food is at worst actively disappointing and at best utterly forgettable. There is one exception however: the chips. Chips, like other potato dishes I find, are surprisingly hard to get right—or at least so it seems given the routinely awful ones served in so many places, all the way from roadside holes to zeitgeisty eateries.
The chips served in the Buttery are fresh, crisp, non-greasy and without that taste of ancient oil. They don’t salt them so you can do so yourself to your own taste. To be perfectly honest, for €2.35 they make a very serviceable quick snack indeed. I’d say that they’re so good that you could, with no small degree of pomposity, call them frites.
