The Menu: If a restaurant like Tung Sing means that much, support it as often as possible

It would seem from the outpouring of online grief that part of Tung Sing’s problem was that rather ancient memories of meals long since eaten weren’t sufficient to butter any more recent bread

Tung Sing is departing their Patrick St mothership after 60 years

Buttered up

The Menu has a pile of cookbooks to hand waiting for more in-depth appraisal and first out of the box is Butter Boy (Nine Bean Rows), by Paul Flynn, long one of The Menu’s most favourite people in Irish food not least when it comes to mopping up his ever delicious plates.