Category: Specials

Positions vacant

We are hiring for the 2023 season. We are a small owner family run business, front of house and kitchen. We serve good food local food in a relaxed but professional environment.   Candidates should be passionate about food and have a reasonable knowledge of wine, previous experience is a must. The position begins in March and to start with would be 4 nights a week and from Easter on moving to 5 nights a week. Salary based on previous experience. Full and part time position available, 4pm/6pm-11pm (approx times) Full or part time position, wash up and also food prep and assisting starter and dessert chef.   CV please to maxskinsale@gmail.com

Winter Game and foraging menu

December 2019   5 course €45 pp (Limited availability, reservations highly recommended)  Winter potage, duck tortellini, salsfiy, flat parsley and broad beans. *************** Wild local mushroom risotto,  air dried venison, pumpkin seeds, local squash. *************** Wild Pheasant ‘ from head to toe’ Max’s pheasant sausage, apple and quince compote, pulled pheasant ragu and pan fried breast of pheasant with panchetta, creamed wild yellow chantrelles, brussel sprouts. *************** Irish farmhouse cheese, with rowan berry and wild apple compote, walnut bread. *************** Hazelnut financier, white chocolate ganache with raw cocoa nibs and crushed praline,  pear confit with coffee flavour, chocolate disc.

September 13th 2019

Local Lobster, oysters and Crab tonight as extras, along with wild Turbot, Hake and local Ling… and not forgetting Barretts butchers Lamb, Pork belly and chicken. ww.maxs.ie

August 3rd 2019

Early menu (starter plus main) €27 per person   * dishes marked with * Starters * Warm smoked Mackerel and potato salad, pickled samphire, beetroot, horseradish drizzle, pea shoots.  €8.50 *Steamed mussels, white wine, vegetable julienne, cream and lovage. €8.50 *Crispy parcel of French brie, sweet onion & dried fig marmalade, mesclun salad.  €9.50  * Soba noodles with sesame oil, slow roasted duck, star anise.  €8.50 Sauté Squid and prawns, cha noodles, miso dressing, pickled carrots.   €9.50 Pan fried Langoustines,crispy panchetta, pearl barley risotto, fermented black garlic and basil sauce.  €13.50 Local Oysters, served fresh, shallot vinagrette. €12.90 half dozen Local Crab: fresh crab meat with lemon balm, picked samphire, grapefruit, pea shoots, chive and olive oil dressing and Warm claws with a chili lemongrass & fresh coriander butter sauce.  (limited)  €13.50 Mains Pan fried Thornback Ray Wing ‘matelote style’, baby leeks, streaky bacon, button mushroom, baby onions and red wine sauce.     €23.90 Grilled Sea Bass, roast butternut squash, chorizo crumb, asparagus, leek sauce.     €27.00 *Chargrilled fillet of Sea Trout, aubergine caviar, garden herb dressing courgette and french beans.       €23.90 *Sautéed fillet of Hake, roast cherry tomatoes, crispy garlic, shallot beurre blanc, sea asparagus, celeriac, carrot, celery and flat parsley jardinière.     €23.90 *Pan fried Chicken supreme, baby parsnip, pumpkin seed, roast beetroot,  Kinsale mead, cherry and nectarine sauce.  €23.90 * Braised belly of Pork with local cider, thyme ginger and honey,York cabbage, garlic, carrot, baby oinion, gooseberry apple and green cardamon puree.   €24.90 Sauté Irish Lamb cutlets and lamb Kofta,roast red pepper, courgette, coriander, & spicy chickpea fricassee.   €26.50

July 27th 2019 early Bird and a la Carte

Early menu (starter plus main) €27 per person   * dishes marked with * Starters * Warm smoked Mackerel and potato salad, pickled samphire, beetroot, horseradish drizzle, pea shoots.  €8.50 *Steamed mussels, white wine, vegetable julienne, cream and lovage. €8.50 *Crispy parcel of French brie, sweet onion & dried fig marmalade, mesclun salad.  €9.50  * Soba noodles with sesame oil, slow roasted duck, star anise.  €8.50 Sauté Squid and prawns, cha noodles, miso dressing, pickled carrots.   €9.50 Pan fried Langoustines,crispy panchetta, pearl barley risotto, fermented black garlic and basil sauce.  €13.50 Grilled half local Lobster, garden herb butter, mixed salad leaves. €16.00 (limited) Local Oysters, served fresh, shallot vinagrette. €12.90 half dozen Local Crab: fresh crab meat with lemon balm, picked samphire, grapefruit, pea shoots, chive and olive oil dressing and Warm claws with a chili lemongrass & fresh coriander butter sauce.  (limited)  €13.50 Mains *Pan fried fillets of Red Gurnard, lobster oil, pak choi, espelette chili, sea asparagus, thyme butter.  €23.90    *Chargrilled  fillet of Sea Trout, aubergine caviar, garden herb dressing courgette and sugar snaps.   €23.90 *Pan fried medallions of fresh Ling, chorizo crumb, baby leek, garlic chive sauce.               €23.90 Sautéed fillet of wild Irish Turbot and scallops,green asparagus, celeriac and mange tout julienne, lovage butter.   €34.00 Sautéed fillet of Hake, roast cherry tomatoes, crispy garlic, shallot beurre blanc, sea asparagus, daikon, carrot, celery and flat parsley jardinnére.   €23.90 *Venison and red wine casserole, root vegetables baby onions and mushrooms.   €24.90 *Pan fried Chicken supreme, baby parsnip, pumpkin seed, roast beetroot, Kinsale mead, cherry and nectarine sauce.  €23.90 Sauté Irish Lamb cutlets and Kofta,roast red pepper, courgette, coriander, & spicy chickpea fricassee.    €26.50 

July 17th 2019

Early menu 6pm – 7.15pm our fish tonight, Hake , thornback Ray (limited), sea trout A la Carte from 6pm, fish tonight, wild Turbot and scallops, wild irish Brill ‘matelot style’, Monkfish, Hake, also Lobster, oysters, langoustines, squid, smoked mackerel and mussels…