Restaurant Review - Forêt
Tuesday 19 November 2024
Described in Magill magazine in 1978 as a ‘swinging pub’, O’Brien’s is on a swerving Le Mans-style hairpin corner taking you from Leeson Street Bridge towards ‘the Burlo’, or nowadays the Clayton Hotel Burlington Road. A terrific traditional Irish pub, where once sat Brendan Behan, Patrick Kavanagh and many odd bods, it has retained a certain cachet, always having crowds socialising outside, swigging great big pints of beer.
The upstairs space has housed a series of restaurant enterprises over the years, and, truth be told, as I climbed the old staircase yet again to what, back in the day, had been described as a ‘perfectly dreadful upstairs lounge’, I was expecting a good performance from the new team.
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First Published In The Sunday Independent