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What should we know about Square Dish? It's Dublin's newest pizza restaurant (no we haven't peaked yet), with a fancy fit out on one of the capital's most desirable streets - St. Stephen's Green. While the combination of those elements initially made us think Square Dish must be from a big hospitality group with money coming out the wazoo, it's actually husband and wife team Andrew Eakin and Naomi Murtagh who are behind it. Eakin started London wine shops Bottle Apostle many moons ago, before moving into the wine industry in France. Murtagh is a designer specialising in leather goods, most recently based in London.

Tell us about with Tucano? If you came across Tucano on Instagram you might think they were in Curitiba rather than off O’Connell Street, with their posts almost entirely in Portugese. There's little or no food on there either, just videos of staff talking animatedly into the camera with all the effects - they could as easily be promoting a casino or supermarket. Word is out in the Brazilian community, and the only language in the heaving room was Portugese - our server tried to take our order in it. There are lots of Brazilian restaurants in Dublin, who all seem to serve the same style of food to the same people, but barely any have had a national review, or featured on best restaurant lists. Is this a journalistic oversight, or are none of them hitting the heights? We wanted to try one of the most talked about to get some clarity. What should I eat? Our server recommended the most popular dishes - picanha steak, and feijoada (Brazil's iconic bean and meat stew). We added mini chicken coxinhas and fried tapioca - snacks that anyone who's visited Brazil ate their body weight in. Mini coxinhas (€7.99) are easier to eat than palm-sized ones, but eight was overkill. The stodgy snack of breaded, deep-fried dough had shredded chicken in the centre, and while well seasoned they needed the garlic dip - even still they lose their appeal fast. Fried tapioca cubes (€7.99), another carb-heavy snack, are often served with red pepper jelly in Brazil - here it tasted like bottled sweet chilli sauce. They're crispy and satisfyingly chewy, but after a couple there's no reason to keep going back. Feijoada, a slow-cooked bean, pork and beef stew (€14.50), is a warming bowl, but we would have liked to know what parts of what animals were in there – at one point we lifted something resembling a pig’s snout. It came with "crackling" (unpleasant chunks of skin and fat), "cabbage" (raw kale), "vinaigrette" (Brazilian salsa), farofa (toasted cassava flour), and rice. Asking how we wanted our thin steak cooked was moot, but the Brazilian meat (€17.50) had expert flavour and seasoning. You get a choice of black or brown beans, farofa to dip it in, vinaigrette, and cassava or fries. The cassava was extremely bland, but the rest was the best thing we ate here. There are six desserts including honey bread and passion fruit mousse, but when in Brazil, it's got to be pudim. Similar to Spain's flan de queso, or F rance's crème caramel, it's made with eggs, milk, condensed milk and caramel, and is very sweet, but this is an excellent version. What about drinks? Soft drinks and beer, as well as fresh juices like cashew, passion fruit and acerola (similar to cherry). Our guava was more like a smoothie or a slushie - no bad thing. Why should I go? We don’t think Tucano is about to go viral with an Irish crowd, but we can see why Brazilians flood the place. It's the type of food someone's Mum or Aunt would make, and clearly the taste of home so many are missing. It’s also a fun, inexpensive option the next time you want to try something different. Tucano 4 Talbot Street, North City, Dublin 1 instagram.com/tucanodublin

What should we know about The Sackville Lounge? You might have been resident under a rock if you don’t know already. The second site from the team who gave us Bar 1661  back in 2019 opened to much fanfare and no small ambition last month, sprucing up an old boozer off O’Connell Street with a black-panelled promise to bring a little glamour back to the much-maligned North city centre. What should we have? After slipping in at opening time (it's walk-ins only) we made straight for the Irish Coffee - a Tullamore Dew twist on 1661’s iconic Belfast Coffee and, to our whiskey-loving lips, a step up on it thanks to the added notes of soda bread and Kerrygold. There’s the faint hint of a hot buttered rum to this warm serve sipped through the layer of cream on top – we may have started with it, but here’s the best new digestif in town. Versus its established elder sibling, The Sackville Lounge skews more classical in style, with a menu that might be mistaken for many others about town - perhaps the better to tempt in the city centre crowds that began to fill up around us. The devil’s in the detail though, and he’s in the spicy margarita too – there’s heat here to show those pale imitations how its done. There’s also great complexity, courtesy of Bán Poitín and Empirical Cilantro - as a comparison point to showcase the standard of the place, you won't do better. We reckon they can do better than cheap napkins for coasters though - at the tenth time of peeling a soaked serviette from our glass we were close to a wail. This is a bar to reinforce your preferences - Campari fans will love the bitter blast of the Kingston Negroni, toned down with spiced vermouth and Caribbean rum, while those who take their cocktails sweetly sharp will sing the praises of the Strawberry Swizzle’s white chocolate and aged rum richness. Those who think whiskey is the start and end of it all will feel right at home here, between the bar-flanking cabinets of owner Dave Mulligan’s personal picks and the duelling sweetness and salinity of an excellent Old Fashioned, courtesy of rye and a lively cheddar bitters. Only the Black Manhattan we found a little lacking, with the unusual notes of a peated Irish whiskey more bigged up than balanced out by toasted rice syrup. Why should I go? In a delicious custard-washed take on the Sazerac, by many accounts the original cocktail, we saw the essence of The Sackville Lounge ’s potential – an audaciously elemental return to roots that doesn’t so much rip up the recipe as bring in a new lease of life to let us see things anew. The destination vibes Bar 1661 brought to an ignored corner of D7 are in dire need in this part of town, and it’s nice to see a business putting its money where, too often, moaning mouths abound. If you build it, they will come. If you quit complaining and invest in the city instead of doing it down, they might even keep coming back. The Sackville Lounge 16 Sackville Place, Dublin 1 instagram.com/thesackvillelounge

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