Restaurant Review: Gallagher’s Boxty House

When I first moved to Dublin in the late 1980s there was no cooler part of the city than Temple Bar. It all happened by accident of course, CIE was buying up the place with a plan to flatten it all to build a bus station (with a tunnel under the Liffey to connect to Busáras).

While CIE waited for planning permission, it rented out the old shirt factories and warehouses at low rents and soon the place was full of vintage clothes shops, record stores, rehearsal spaces, art galleries and ethnic and vegetarian restaurants.