Search Results for: Conor Stevens

Gastro: Ay Caramba! – Órale Street Food at Pawn Shop

“There’s a better restaurant in here trying to get out, there’s ambition and invention in the kitchen but it needs to stop holding back and trust that Dublin palates can deal with the flavour profiles dialled right up.” – Conor Stevens

Cinema Review: Squaring the Circle

“The film is about friendship and hubris but it also tracks perhaps as an elegy for a time of boundless budgets, unquestioned artistic license and unadulterated originality, before the man started counting the beans so closely.” – Conor Stevens

Gastro: Double Take – Yang Guo Fu & Boss Stop

“I’m here to talk about the soft (often texturally challenging) power of China’s most pervasive cultural export – Chinese food – and whether we as Dubliners can hope to resist its aggressive territorial expansion beyond Parnell Street’s agreed boundaries.” – Conor Stevens

Gastro: Fiesta – La Gordita

“There’s a lot to like here, for me it’s an antidote to the fussed-over small-plates places that come freighted with attitude and the natural wine problem, enervated by the need to be cool.” – Conor Stevens

Gastro: Double Take – Space Jaru and Fayrouz

“What the area is hungry for is places that you can use, places that will feed you well on a Tuesday night for a price that you can live with.” – Conor Stevens checks out the tasty new arrivals on Meath Street and Cork Street.

Cinema Review: Meet Me In the Bathroom

“Meet Me in the Bathroom might not be a great music documentary but it’s a great night out. Get loaded, bring your buddies and don’t regret the passing of things.” – Conor Stevens 

Gastro: Note Worthy

“The collection of starters, small plates (whatever we’re calling them right now) that hit the table are all winners and perfectly represent the mode and ambition of the kitchen.” – Conor Stevens

Double Take: Hakkahan | Lee’s Charming Noodles

“Hakkahan has been a firm favourite since arriving on Stoneybatter’s main drag almost a year ago… I’ve moved Lee’s Charming Noodles into the emotional berth that used to be occupied by This Charming Man.” – Conor Stevens

Gastro: Scene, Herd – Bovinity

“The general vibe is one of fair fucks, Dublin ya ride, spicebag memefied basicness… The price point is achievable for most and the welcome is warm – only right and proper on this most democratic of dining streets.” – Conor Stevens

Gastro: Pale Moonlight – Luna

“Right now this is Luna in name only, a cover version that only serves to remind you of how great the original was.” – Conor Stevens

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