Restaurant Review: Not In My Name – Mr. S
“There is a lot of potential here but the flavour profiles of too many of the dishes seem curiously polite, when I had been expecting full-throated profanity.”
Restaurant Reviews – Heart’s Delight: Dim Sum at Ka Shing and Mr Dinh
The notion of Dim Sum originates in the tea-houses of the Silk Road and reaches back over centuries. It’s also something that you can enjoy right here in Dublin.
Restaurant Review: Potager in Skerries
“With this kind of food, palate fatigue begins to insinuate itself quite early on, the barrage of relentless refinement becomes wearing.”
Restaurant Review: Circa Terenure
Circa is a tasteful, sophisticated restaurant, hitting all the right notes.
Les Rosbifs – Sunday Roasts at F. X. Buckley and The Old Spot
“Apparently, brunch has been supplanted, as a thing to talk about in ‘food circles’, by the ‘Sunday Roast’.”
Restaurant Review: The Seafood Café
“This is as close to the experience of eating in Barcelona’s Boqueria market as you’ll find in dank Dublin”
Restaurant Review: Sisu Izakaya
If you want everything under the (rising) sun and you’re really not too fussy then this might be the place for you.
Restaurant Review: Variety Jones
A destination restaurant in The Liberties. Whatever next?
Restaurant Review: Loretta’s
For the lucky denizens of D7, this is all the neighbourhood restaurant they will ever need. This is a North Star to follow.
Restaurant Review: Del Fino
It is my fervent hope that January will bring somewhere good enough to sustain my interest over a thousand words, or awful enough to sustain yours.
Restaurant Review: The Pig’s Ear
There is some solid cooking happening here, but not quite enough consistency to justify the enthusiasm of the pricing.
Restaurant Review: The Ivy
This joint is operating exactly as it was conceived – a round of three card monty to separate the Irish oiks from their silly queenless currency.
Barfly: The Open Gate Brewery
I like the feeling that potentially calamitous choices are just maddeningly out of reach. What if I were to pull that lever? Would a tsunami of Hop House 13 roar down James St…?
Restaurant Review: Rosa Madre
“The finest seafood carpaccio I’ve ever eaten, sweet, delicate, the flesh still firm. I can’t stop thinking about it.”
Restaurant Review: Ukiyo Lounge
This is a menu that promises to do many things to me. Japanese things.
Barfly: Lundy Foot’s
This would be a first – an initially sober experience of the shop formerly known as The Czech Inn, formerly known as Isolde’s Tower.
Barfly: The Lucky Duck
It bears the feel of something curated rather than created.
Upper Crust: Sano Pizza | Forno 500 | Dublin Pizza Company
Bread is to be broken. The nature of that bread is the issue.