Daspin

This month, having eaten in both Michael Deane's 1* [eponymous] restaurant in Belfast and the newly appointed 'Bib joint' in Warrenpoint, which incidentally is not for the fainthearted if you're in anyway English, I have to profess that McCardle's food at Restaurant 23 far surpasses anything that Deane provided/cooked up/overcharged us for. C'est la vie, I guess, It's not what you know, but who.

Try Glynn's tasting menu at Purnell's. Simpson's is okay, but it vains me to pay their prices for a tasting menu that just verges on novel, but feels somewhat tried and tested. How many pumpkin soup first courses does one need?

There's a tentative link between Crosbie's friendship with Bono, the Clarence Hotel itself and MPW coming to Dublin. But my lips are sealed.