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.
Barfly: The Flowing Tide
The Flowing Tide is what is commonly referred to as ‘a storied pub’, one of those ‘remember the time when…’ spots.
Restaurant Review: The Legal Eagle
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.
Audio Review: The War On Drugs: A Deeper Understanding
A balm for the hurt senses of this fractured age
Barfly: Dicey’s Garden at The Russell Court Hotel
This is the beer-garden as envisaged by Hieronymus Bosch.
Restaurant Review: FX Buckley Crow Street Temple Bar
This is a solid, dependable restaurant which, alongside The Chameleon offers the best argument to spend money dining in Temple Bar.
Restaurant Review: Jolin’s Vietnamese Coffee House
Playing all of the hits from her Saigon repertoire… Jolin herself is a real pistol, animated, engaging and endlessly helpful.
Audio Review: Lindsey Buckingham/Christine McVie
The record already features on Rolling Stone’s top 50 of 2017. Huh?
Barfly: The Pavilion Bar at Trinity College Dublin
They have tarted the place up recently and it looks good in a functional way.
Audio Review: Harry Styles: Harry Styles
He is Styles and he does styles. Just go about your business. This is beneath your interest.
Barfly: The Horseshoe Bar At The Shelbourne Hotel
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.
