Restaurant review: Cirillo’s, 140 Baggot Street, Dublin 2

Cirillo’s is a fine addition to Dublin’s ever increasing number of pizza restaurants and is warmly recommended, writes Leslie Williams

WHEN we think or write about food (or wine for that matter), it is all too easy to focus on flavours and smells. We have other senses too and how a food feels in the mouth has an enormous influence on how much we enjoy it.

Nobody (or nobody I know) likes soggy chips, tough steak, heavy dense bread or rubbery eggs. Give us contrast — crunchy fluffy frites, crusty bread with a soft chewy centre, char-grilled meat where the juices flow when you cut it.