I have eaten here about 5 times in 2 years. Only had one burnt steak experience and generally tend to enjoy the flavours. They have a sister restaurant in Kells, which I thought was terrible and crowded to the point of torture. But not this place. The Side Door specialises in everything you'd expect from a grill, steaks, chicken, curries, fajitas, pizzas but it has a classier edge to it. The staff are extremely polite and seem to enjoy working (not joking) It genuinely seems to be a fast paced work hard play hard fun atmostphere and it shows in the clean glasses, extra napkins without asking, correct knife and fork and service when you need it. Lovely atmosphere in here. They have really wierd shaped chips like they are scooped out with an apple corer or something small and round but it works - they are crispy and fluffy and always hot. Our sides arrived about 3 or 4 minutes after our dinners this time. Not impressed. I don't touch the food until it all arrives but we caved in after 3 mins. Everything tasted great. They have nice chicken wings, falling off the bone but I thought they were doused in water or something as they were a teensy bit soggy. Still tasted nice though. The man had potato skins - not something I'd ever order but I tasted them and they were full of flavour and the cheese was actual cheese not that plastic stuff you might see in other places. The mains were surf and turf for both of us and I couldn't fault it except for the delay in getting side dishes. Really delicious and good quality steak and 5 juicy prawns. No fat. A huge vat of garlic butter on each plate - a bit much for anyone to consume - buy some smaller ramekins I would suggest. Very tasty garlic potatoes and all plates were hot hot hot - my pet hate is cold plates so they won points for that. Waitress was lovely and called back a few times without being in your face. We didn't have dessert as we were full. Now for the bad points: I find it quite expensive here (usually about 70+ for basic 2 course for 2 people plus glass of wine). While

Ate here on Valentine's Day and it was lovely. They have a really broad menu. Everything was yummy and the service was great.

This is my third time to little gem. The food is fab , the manager who i hear is well known in the Navan area for football is courteous and very efficient like the rest of his staff. This resturant definitly deserves my rating for excellence and Cavan is lucky to have such quality