Tonic

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Meet the collars-up crowd (and tangerine totty) at this self-styled gastro bar. Tiger cubs love the uncomplicated menu, where nothing is written in French and the flavours bring the customers back to Montauk in the summer of, like, 2003. Decent pub fare: antipasti, burgers and seafood. We think they might just be serious about Irish pub cooking that doesn’t revolve around gravy or coleslaw. Best thing on the menu is the  double-minced steak burger with mashed potato, onion rings and pepper sauce.

5 Temple Road, Blackrock, County Dublin, 288 7671, www.tonic.ie