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51 Pleasants Street Tel.: +353 85 727 7509 www.facebook.com/sovaveganbutcher
HANG DAI CHINESE 20 Lower Camden Street Tel.: +353 1 545 8888 www.hangdaichinese.com
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anish all preconceptions of the bog standard Chinese restaurant,
Hang Dai Chinese is anything but that. Blade Runner meets Deadwood is the design brief, and West Cork duck is the main attraction. Ushering in a new wave of forward-thinking, seasonally driven menus is Forest Avenue, a husband-and-wife-run eatery with a tasting menu to die for. The agnolotti are better than in Rome, stat. Overlooking the much-fabled
Ha’penny Bridge is The Winding Stair; a restaurant with a seriously chequered past – Yeats and co-spun a few yarns here back in the day. Replete with the eponymously named winding staircase and old-world bookstore, this unpretentious traditional Irish eatery will stun even the most vociferous of companions into gastronomic-fuelled silence. A Polish man walks into a vegan butcher. No, it’s not a joke – Sova Vegan Butcher is one of the city’s prime culinary treasures. The menu is as eccentric as its owner; bright-eyed, bushy-bearded Barto, whose clever take on much-loved meat dishes like seitan steak will sate even an omnivore’s palette. Dine quite literally under a glass ceiling and cultivate notions of smashing the patriarchy whilst at Roberta’s, a New York state of mind kind of diner with pizzas, pastas and a 40-metre stretch of riverside views. Get your fish on in Dublin’s newest and hottest fish spot, The Seafood Café, run by the owner of underwater utopia Klaw, Niall Sabongi. With fresh, locally sourced catch from Dublin Bay prawns to torched lobster, the crab shack has never looked this good.
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