Restaurant Review - L’Enoteca di Napoli
Wednesday 03 July 2024
“Stay, take your time, relax,” said ‘il signor’ in charge as I asked for the bill at L’Enoteca di Napoli, an Irish-owned Italian wine bar on Fenian Street, and sibling of Il Caffe di Napoli on Westland Row. However, it felt a bit like closing the stable door after the horse had bolted. “I thought we had to rush out the door as this table is booked?” I replied, giving him the quizzical eye, having consumed three courses and a bottle of vino rapidly.
“If you want a bill, I’ll give it to you, otherwise take your time,” he said. We’d arrived in the late afternoon, following a meeting in town, passing an advertising clapperboard outside the door, and asking the waitperson who met us if we could have a table for two. There were only three diners in the place, two ladies by a side wall, and a man down the back of the room. To our surprise, with four or five lines of empty tables set perpendicularly across the room from a long service counter, they dragged a table for two to within 18 inches of the two ladies by the wall.
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First Published In The Sunday Independent