- Vegan and vegetarian Belfast restaurant Jumon has opened its first pop up Dublin location on South William Street in the old Mercado 52 site (which we hear is plagued with problems). They're initially open until early 2027 and opening weekend reports sound promising - Bread 41 are coming back to Blackrock! And the Northside screams on... - Sushi & Go have opened their third location in Dundrum TC - the Sushisa/Zakura guys are not hanging around with this brand - Tacos
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.