Upper Crust: Sano Pizza | Forno 500 | Dublin Pizza Company
Bread is to be broken. The nature of that bread is the issue.
Barfly: The Terrace at the Irish Film Institute
“I’ve found over the years that this space can repay the patient tippler with singular pleasures.”
Restaurant Review: Arisu
This is straight down the line Korean cooking (with some needless nods to Japan).
Barfly: Gold Bar at Hang Dai
Despite the name, this is the least precious cocktail bar you’ve never been to.
Restaurant Review: Bresson
Too good to be regarded as merely a neighbourhood spot, and perhaps too good for Monkstown: this place deserves a postcode.
Restaurant Review: Glovers Alley
A pleasant way to make yourself poorer and moderately less hungry in sumptuous surroundings.
Barfly: 9 Below
Nine Below is an actual thing and it takes them two days to accept my booking.
Restaurant Review: The Trocadero
As you might expect, the service is warm and the welcome genuine. I’m tempted to comment that this may be the most hospitable restaurant in the city.
Barfly: Lucky’s
With the opening of Lucky’s we (you know who you are) now have an unassailable triumvirate of fuck-off places in which to wet our whistles.
Barfly: The Sidecar – Westbury Hotel
It’s for special. Wear some adult shoes and run a comb through your hair.
Gastro: Supermarket Sweep
Rather than squatting amidst the debris of your ineluctably broken resolutions you might consider pulling yourself together and availing of some soul-bolstering cheap eats in an Asian supermarket.
Restaurant Review: Tomahawk
The best looking steakhouse in town but not quite the best steakhouse just yet.
Barfly: Izakaya Sake Bar Yamamori
An immersive introduction to the noble rice wine that remains little understood to most westerners.
Restaurant Review: Clanbrassil House
This is unfussy cooking, considered, seasonal, ingredient-driven and marked by confident flavour combinations.
Barfly: The Red Bank Wine Tavern
A place where memories are created and subsequently redacted, on a nightly basis.
Restaurant Review: Admiral Restaurant
There really is something for everyone here, from cocktails and milkshakes to hot white wine (!) and beyond.
Gastro: The Lucky Tortoise
Good dumplings are encapsulations of joy and the short menu of modern dim sum features a couple of beauts as it pings between China, Japan and Korea.
Restaurant Review: Restaurant Forty One at Residence
The room is grand in the actual sense of the word and what you would expect on the first floor of an eighteenth century townhouse that was lavishly restored some years ago.