Murphy's Irish Stout. Oh, I am in love again.

Tonight Dan and I went to an Irish pub in Barrington called McGonagal's Pub, just to try someplace new.   It ended up being really very nice, and definitely a place we will go back to.

The atmosphere was nice, lots of wood on walls and floor, lots of room, so even though it was crowded, it wasn't overbearing and we could hear each other.

The menu was interesting, and the appetizer (smoked salmon wrapped around crab on top of a salad) and the spicy curry fries were really tasty.  There is a lot of really good looking food, but we will be back to explore it more later.  Tonight we were peckish.

My favorite thing on the menu though, was Murphy's Irish Stout.  They had a marvelous keg of it  there, properly dispensed, and it tasted like the beer you get in Ireland or Great Britain.

Murphy's is a sipping beer, one that you love to have play all over your tongue.  The foam on top is extremely creamy and very thick, and the beer itself is chocolately and deep and not very fizzy at all, yet it doesn't taste flat.  It could be a meal in itself, and I just loved it. 

I am very excited to have found it well served nearby, and even had the rest of the restaurant experience terrible (which it definitely wasn't), I would still return for a such an authentic tasting, well-poured glass of Murphy's Irish Stout.