Tom Doorley loves Cafe Max while Lucinda absolutely hated whassisname, Crush. Me I’m rushing around like the blue-arsed proverbial trying to get a clutch of reviews done before I go to Sicily for a low-carb, low-protein diet, NOT. I recently returned to L’Gueleton, found a new fusion Aisian, Mangetu (eat yourself?), ventured to deepest Rathgar ...
FoodEver since I was a kid lists have held fascination for me. Top 20 Footballers’ Series Cigarette Cards; Top 6 Girls in My Class I Hate; Top 10 Railway Locomotives I Want to See Before I Die (aged 10!), I compiled lists endlessly, sharing them with my closest friends. As a grown up I became ...
Restaurant ReviewsAmateur night at Fawlty Towers. Basil and Sybil had gone to the flicks and left other lunatics in charge of the asylum. At one point there were three (really pleasant) young people clustered round our table. One had a bottle in his hand and was trying to persuade us that it was what we’d ordered, ...
Restaurant ReviewsWhat’s the last thing you have before you leave a restaurant? Do I hear “a cup of coffee”? Right. So why is 90 per cent of Dublin restaurant espresso absolute shite? And how come Italian restaurants are no more immune from delivering a decent cup than the rest, when Italy is supposed to be the ...
Restaurant ReviewsBurger used to be ‘hamburger’, then ‘beefburger’. Some say it should be called a ‘Mongolburger’ as the tradition of eating ground beef made up into patties is said to have started with Genghis Khan’s horde who slipped a wodge under their saddles to sustain them during a peripatetic campaign of loot, burn and pillage. After ...
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