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Sally McKenna
took tourism Czar Martin Duffy to Gallagher's Boxty House Restaurant
near Dublin's quays.
Gallagher's Boxy House is vibrant with life. Up until now
the city river's left bank has offered food from France, Portugal,
Italy and China. Gallagher's Boxty House has given an ethnic
Irish restaurant popping the myth that here's no such thing
as Irish Cuisine. Better still, this isn't fossilize Traditional
Irish Cooking of the Oh! It's pancake time again, let
me see if we can dig up the same old hardy annual. Just like
the music playing in the restaurant. Hot House Flowers, Mary
Black, Van Morrison, Horslips, this is Irish foods as a living
culture, improving and enhancing recipes with ingredient that
were not available in the Emergency Years when many of these
dishes were at their most popular. But if the food isn't fossilized,
it certainly isn't modernized with gimmicks like novelle
cuisine either.
"I was recently in a top class Irish hotel/restaurant",
confided Martin Dully "and I ordered Irish Stew"-
and what's more persuaded the two others in my party
to do the same. "When it came there was a base of
sauce on the plate, and on top of that were three tiny lamb
chops arranged in a |
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