“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

“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

“A textbook Tiramisu rounds out a faultless dinner… This place is a joy.” – Conor Stevens

“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

“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.

“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 

“So there we are – a review that nobody wanted of a restaurant that nobody needs.” – Conor Stevens

“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

“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

“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

“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

“There’s no alchemy at work here, just top-drawer ingredients treated with the respect that allows them to shine. The only magic trick is the way that each course disappears.” – Conor Stevens

“I think that Orwell Road has the potential to be the Bereens’ best yet. The name might say neighbourhood, but down the road this one is bound to be a destination.” – Conor Stevens

“Bring a group and shout words across the table, pound a few cocktails and enjoy yourself. You’ll be a long time dead.” – Conor Stevens

“This place right now feels like an investment opportunity with food upstairs, rather than a restaurant that takes pleasure in feeding people well. Dawson Street is the perfect place for it.” – Conor Stevens 

“There has always been more bread to be made selling feeds of pints in this city than plates of food. I’m just glad that the place continues to soldier on and that it has survived this long Covid war of attrition.” – Conor Stevens

“Kudos to chef Killian Walsh and his crew. Hen’s Teeth really is that rarest of things, an interesting, ambitious and affordable restaurant in the world’s seventh best city’s fifteenth coolest neighbourhood. What an age we live in.” – Conor Stevens 

“The food makes few concessions to infantilsed western palates and that’s a good thing.” – Conor Stevens checks out Full Moon, in the space occupied for many years by The Larder on a stretch of what is known mid-week as Parliament Street.