Riverside Hotel Blog

One of our most popular dishes from our A La Carte Menu:

Panfried Fillets Of Seabass with a Chilli & Mango Salsa

Serves 4

Ingredients:

4 Fillets of Fresh Sea Bass

½ Lemon - squeezed

1 ripe Mango

2 med Red Chilli’s

1 Red Onion

1 Red, Yellow, Green Pepper

125ml Olive Oil

Splash of White Wine Vinegar

Salt/Black Pepper

To Make the Salsa:

Finely Dice the Peppers, Mango & Chilli’s and lightly sauté them in a heavy based pan with a drop of Olive Oil.

Add in the vinegar & simmer for a few minutes.

Add in the remaining olive oil & heat through.

Remove from the heat and leave to cool. Season to taste.

To Cook the Seabass:

Pre heat a non stick frying pan

Season the Sea Bass & drizzle with lemon juice

Place skin side down in the hot pan.

Turn and continue cooking till cooked through - do not overcook as this will reduce flavour and texture.

Serve the Salsa.

Firstly let me tell you a bit about myself. My name is Ciara Roche and I have been working in the Killarney Riverside Hotel since 2002. My first position here was as a Duty Manager, shortly after I was promoted to Deputy Manager. When the General Manager went on Maternity leave in 2003, I was given the opportunity to cover her position as GM and  I haven’t looked back since then!!

For those of you who don’t know the Riverside Hotel-here’s a quick insight. The hotel was built in 2000 and received our Four Star Status shortly afterwards. Our lobby received an extensive ‘make over’ last year ( have a look on our website), all bedrooms were painted and  freshened up with the addition of warm cosy duvets and the softest of pillows- to guarantee the best nights sleep!!

Our most recent work has been carried out on the exterior of the hotel-no sign of Pink paint anywhere. We’re now a very glamorous & sophisticated cream & brown. I think the hotel now stands out for all the right reasons - the only problem now is a lot of our past guests have driven straight past the hotel, not realising it’s the Riverside!

As some of you may know we had a bit of a baby boom here in the Riverside last year-with TEN members of staff having new additions added to their families.  Claire, one of our receptionists is getting her baby, Fionn, christened this weekend. Lets hope that’s it on the baby front for another while at least- otherwise we will definitely become known as the most fertile hotel in Ireland!

Well that’s all the news for now-we’ll catch up again in the near future

Hey, my name is Gearoid Murphy, I’m 23 years, I’m a duty manager in the Killarney Riverside hotel. I’ve been working for the Irish Court group for almost six years now with a little sabbatical in between to fit in a nightclub job before realising late nights behind a bar serving people who couldn’t see their nose wasn’t exactly my calling in life, but fun times were had by all.

I’ve yo-yoed between the Killarney Riverside and the Killarney Court hotel’s a few times now, and put in some time in the Kenmare bay Hotel in Kenmare, so hopefully this is the last move across the town, I get motion sickness and it’s a lot of jumping. In my first incarnation I was the barman in the Killarney court hotel, since then I’ve gone from there to duty manager due to a mix of me being good at what I do and being given the opportunity to move hotels which suits me to the ground.

It’s great to work in a group that gives me the chance to go somewhere and move up the ladder, while still letting me know there’s always that bar job should I start to get any ego issues, so I’m hoping to hang around here for a while.

The hotels are very good to me and always have been. I have a lot of extra curricular activities that I’m involved in and the hotels are always more than accommodating. I’m involved in a lot of youth work outside of the hotel, helping to run a youth empowerment program and a drop-in centre as well as taking weekend and day drips, this added to the two nights a week I play football can cause a serious headache for Ciara Roche, the General Manager, so she’s either being really nice to me or she’s saving it all up to guilt me into something in the future, possibly repainting her house or valeting the car.

My time in the hotels so far has been great, can’t honestly say a bad word about it, had some great experiences, some funny dramas, plenty of stories, and some more than colourful characters on both sides of the reception desk. And no trip into my daily life would be complete without a mention of the magical place that run our central reservations office, the people we never see. Olive, Elma and Caroline, who could quite possible be robotic answering machines, only time will tell…………