Why is a Dublin restaurant guide talking about a pub and restaurant in Wicklow? Because GLENDALOUGH. We all talk about doing it, suggest doing it, mean to do it more regularly, but without a food-based carrot at the end of an activity stick we struggle to commit to just about anything. Well consider this a carrot of titanic proportions, and the best excuse for an 8km hike since you trekked from the Electric Picnic carpark to the campsite. What are the essential must-knows
What’s the lowdown on Lulu’s? We should have believed them when they said they’re “not a restaurant”. We’d taken it in the sense that it's more trattoria as the storefront announces, but on our first Friday visit there’s very little food at all - just pizzette. It was aperitivo hour’s €2 cicchetti more than wine that lured us to Lulu’s, but no harm. A glass in hand, the world passing by a people-watching perch up front -we enjoy the atmosphere and plot a return.
Contrary to popular belief, Dublin restaurants do not close en masse on Sundays anymore. What was once a day of rest is now for steak, small plates and seafood experiences. Here's where to go when you need a serious feed of a Sunday in Dublin, whether it's a special occasion that just happens to fall at the end of the week, or you're just in need of wine and snacks to see off the Sunday scaries... Special Occasions Parrilla, Ranelagh Recent addition to the Michelin guide, Par