A perfect recovery
No matter how fancy or passionate the place, staff will always make mistakes, chefs will always cock up; there will always be off-days. However, the best restaurants have it in their DNA to recover from inevitable bloopers in a way that not only revives your expectations, but exceeds them.
On our visit, Gordon Ramsay at Powerscourt seemed determined to prove this point. Arriving down the sweeping marble staircase at the heart of the Ritz Carlton, we found nobody at the desk to greet us. The first member of staff to see us glided on by with barely a hello.
