Lucinda O’Sullivan’s restaurant review: ‘As rubbish sacks were hauled past, it felt like we were bit players in a farcical demo of how not to run a restaurant’

With a team of experienced chefs running the show at a new restaurant on Dublin’s Upper Leeson Street, what could possibly go wrong?

Clockwise from front: Kung op, phad Thai noodles, crab fried rice. Photo: Lucinda O’Sullivan.

Imagine being the only customers in a new restaurant while a chef — in a not-exactly-sparkling apron — walks back and forth through the room hauling rubbish sacks. Then imagine him enlisting a waitperson to carry old cardboard boxes to a van parked outside the window.

He never even bid us the time of day.