The perfect restaurant meal doesn’t exist, or at least it has not been Catherine Cleary’s experience while on official reviewing duty as the Irish Times food critic. Is the famously exacting Cleary in a mellow mood, or has Ireland’s restaurant industry hit a particularly sweet spot? Cleary ends her review with this endorsement: “If Michelin doesn’t give it a second star soon it needs its head examined.”Read the review here. Damien Grey is chef/proprietor now, having bought out his former business partner Andrew Heron, and the restaurant is now called Liath. “This is two-star eating in a dickied-up lean-to in a ramshackle market,” Cleary wrote after her visit in June 2017.

Source: The Irish Times July 16, 2019 05:26 UTC