Review: Long may Loretta’s Restaurant thrive

Leslie Williams heads to Loretta’s Restaurant in Dublin - a self-described ‘neighbourhood restaurant’.

IF you ask a Dubliner to name the nicest parts of their city, for some reason Phibsborough rarely gets mentioned despite the rows of picture perfect redbrick houses and leafy side streets. The problem is the village crossroads which is home to one of the ugliest buildings in the country — Phibsoborough Shopping Centre, a mess of concrete brutalism mixed with day-glow plastic signage.