Adventures in Irish Cuisine, Part III: Gotham Café

For dinner Monday night, we went to Gotham Café off of Dublin's Grafton Street (sort of like the Gateway Plaza, except it's just right smack in the middle of town, and much bigger)...unfortunately, I couldn't find any decent online resources showing Grafton.

For dinner, I had the Spicy, Crusted Vietnamese Beef - a deliciously salty-sweet-crunchy dish with noodles - the only drawback was that restaurants here haven't really acquired that US habit of serving bread with every meal, so I didn't have anything to mop up the left-over juice from the beef. MJ had the pepperoni pizza, which he described as having a nice, crispy crust and otherwise being "OK". For dessert, I had the "Black and White Caramel Dream", which was 3 small scoops of ice cream - I want to say it was chocolate, vanilla, and either caramel or toffee. The chocolate ice cream was quite good, the others were passable. Additionally, I had a drink called a "Pink Cloud Dream Juice", which was a mix of cranberry and orange - unfortunately, these flavors didn't blend quite as well as I had hoped, although I think I may experiment in this realm when I return from IE.

Spicy Beef: 8.5/10 - Excellent portion size, great value, really good flavor - left too much food in the bottom of the dish due to inability to reach it
Pepperoni Pizza: Reported as "5/10 - I've had better in Dublin"
Black and White Caramel Dream: 6/10 - a most excellent chocolate ice cream!
Pink Cloud Dream Juice: 4/10 - both flavors tasted "thin", as though too much water was used in the mixing

I would definitely eat here again - I really wanted to try their famous "Sausages and Mash" (a German style and a Bavarian style sausage with garlic mashed potatoes), but the "pork scare" prevented them from serving it to me.