Restaurant Review: Bewley’s Oriental Cafe, Dublin

Every city needs an iconic cafe, the kind of place that appears in guide books but is also frequented by locals, rich and poor alike, writes Joe McNamee.

Paris has Café Angelina and its out of this world hot chocolate, New Orleans has the Café du Monde with its delicious fried doughnuts covered in powdered sugar and its bitter but strangely addictive chicory coffee.

Dublin has Bewley’s and I’ve whiled away many an afternoon there since the 1990s and even visited it regularly when it was a Café-Bar-Deli pizza joint.