A pub-restaurant that apparently doesn't serve drinks without food; although on the day I was told that, there was a TD sitting outside with an Aperol Spritz and no sign of having a meal... but I came back for dinner another day anyway. I believe pre-pandemic, the Wine Bar element, still advertised on the awnings, was an actual thing here; but it is now entirely restaurant.
One of the older restaurants still standing in Dublin - a 1999 opening being practically ancient history for a non fast food premises, and potentially getting towards being on an "oldest restaurants" list as older places die off (see Come Here To Me!'s 2010 list, with 1989 being new enough to get mentioned, and many closures since marked); this only got its pub licence in more recent years, possibly for the aforementioned wine bar, or for the administrative ease compared to the rules around serving beer and spirits with a Special Restaurant Licence.
I'm not a restaurant reviewer - as I've said before, I'm barely even a pub reviewer really - but I enjoyed the meal here. It was however a very expensive tick to get!
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