Restaurant review: It is pleasing to see Richmond doing just fine
The Richmond's menu is affordable and even more so if you are in time for the early bird. Picture: Moya Nolan
Dublin is doing well these days, there is plenty of money around and plenty of people outside and inside the most popular city centre pubs on any given evening. But there are also gaping holes in the city, whole swathes of the landscape which are pockmarked, eerie, and unfinished or rendered utterly bland staycation hostels and ugly hotels.
Richmond Street is a case in point. It used to have a vibrant community of shops and businesses including five north African shops selling exotic vegetables and home made baklava. The developers shut them down including the legendary Bernard Shaw Pub, which thankfully didn’t die but moved to Drumcondra on the northside. I’m not looking forward to the hotels.
