Restaurant review: Avenue by Nick Munier, Dublin 2

SOME PEOPLE just want the glory and the kudos, and they have the ego for buckets of each. 

There is, of course, a serious statement of intent going on when a chef/proprietor has the audacity to bestow upon the restaurant their name.

And there’s also a tricky balancing act: will people who aren’t of the foodie persuasion take the restaurant (and by extension the chef/proprietor) seriously? Will they regard such a flagrant act of self-promotion as being close enough to pretention to dismiss it out of hand?