Every once and a while it’s nice to have a splurge and armed with some vouchers gifted by very sweet former coworkers the Muddlers club was the chosen venue.

The restaurant has a Michelin star and is hidden in a quiet side in the city’s Cathedral Quarter, and is named after a secret society of United Irishmen  dedicated to overthrowing British rule who used to meet on the site 200 years ago.

As expected the Muddlers club is not cheap.  When trying to book for lunch the only option we could choose was for the tasting menu at £95 per head (which I thought was quite cheeky) plus an additional £70 if you wanted to par wines with each course.  We decided against this, but the cheapest bottle of wine is still over £50, lunch can turn into quite an expensive affair.

The food and service however were both excellent. 

Like most tasting menus portions are tiny but extremely rich and unfortunately I didn’t take photos of each of the 6 courss.  The trio of amuse bouches were probably the best I’ve ever tasted and nothing disappointed.