Darina's Brother
A hotel restaurant – and not our favourite hotel. Tom O’Connell set up shop in the basement of a budget Bewley’s eight years ago. His restaurant is very family- and group-friendly, but the massive space is now divided, so you can usually find a quiet corner. O’Connell’s culinary hero is Myrtle Allen, his sister Darina’s mother-in-law, and he shares her passion for tasty, nutritious Irish food – the kind you wish you had time to prepare yourself at home, as O’Connell says. Try the organic chicken pot pie. Sunday lunch offers real value: you can eat as much as you like for just €22.75 and kids pay €1 per year of age, which leads to “healthy dishonesty” on the Sabbath.
Bewley’s Hotel, Merrion Road, Dublin 4, 647 3304, www.oconnellsballsbridge.com
Sunday lunch to celebrate a family birthday was nothing special, until the meal was nearly finished. The carvery was good, the dessert was amazing. A chocolate cake, fluffy, smooth and wicked with some chocolate sculptures on top, ice cream and some jelly completely blasted the rest of the meal out of the water. Go anywhere for a Sunday carvery, go here for the dessert.
Posted by: Karl | September 16, 2008 at 04:01 PM