A place where memories are created and subsequently redacted, on a nightly basis.

There really is something for everyone here, from cocktails and milkshakes to hot white wine (!) and beyond.

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.

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.

The Flowing Tide is what is commonly referred to as ‘a storied pub’, one of those ‘remember the time when…’ spots.

God is in the details for ventures like this and it is abundantly apparent that a lot of consideration has gone into The Legal Eagle.

A balm for the hurt senses of this fractured age

This is the beer-garden as envisaged by Hieronymus Bosch.

This is a solid, dependable restaurant which, alongside The Chameleon offers the best argument to spend money dining in Temple Bar.

Playing all of the hits from her Saigon repertoire… Jolin herself is a real pistol, animated, engaging and endlessly helpful.

The record already features on Rolling Stone’s top 50 of 2017. Huh?

They have tarted the place up recently and it looks good in a functional way.

He is Styles and he does styles. Just go about your business. This is beneath your interest.

The Sam Stephenson designed bar protrudes into the cavity of the red-limned space like a lascivious brassy tongue and I realise that I want a cocktail.

From dark atmospheric soundscapes to freakish beauty. Even the strings are strung out.

I’ve been haunting the shop on and off for about thirteen years and it’s a pleasant place to be.

After a long wait, Karen’s has finally opened its doors on O’Connell Street, and reviewers have been reluctantly dropping in to check it out.

Wish You Were Here? A summer illustration special in our August edition.