Dublin: Dunne & Crescenzi

No sign of recession at Dunne & Crescenzi as the place hums with good conversation and good food.Picture: Collins

BORN and bred Dubliner Eileen Dunne met Italian Stefan Crescenzi in the early ’90s, married, moved to Dublin from Rome in 1995, and started stocking and selling fine Italian produce and wine from a tiny shop in Sutton, north of the city. In the late ’90s, the husband and wife team opened up their city centre base and — with a few hiccups here and there, primarily when they had to pull tight the purse strings — haven’t really looked back.