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A regular column
in which Simon Gavin boldly goes to places where people gather
in search of that exclusive thing called entertainment.
The Clock in Gallagher's Boxty House was striking nine as
we were shown to our table. This new traditional Irish restaurant
was an ideal place to start out on a tour of some neighbouring
traditional music venues.
Boxty turns out to be a sort of stuffed pancake. I'd never
heard of it before but that probably says more about my ignorance
of traditional Irish cooking than about the authenticity of
boxty. It arrived in Temple Bar about two months ago and from
a place Nathy Gallagher calls "Laythrum. Only now
we're in Dublin we have to say Leitrim, nice and proper don't
understand us."
Nathy recommended the house red. "Lovely wine.
You could drink it all night." Mindful of the projected
brodhran-crawl, we asked him to bring the cork so that
we could take home the bottle if we didn't finish it. Then
I set about a bowl of Irish stew and my companion had a lamb
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