{"id":137544,"date":"2025-10-22T04:37:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T04:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/137544\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T04:37:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T04:37:17","slug":"lucinda-osullivans-restaurant-review-this-retro-spot-has-been-booked-out-for-weeks-but-i-finally-nabbed-a-seat-and-found-a-joyous-vibe-plus-bags-of-flavour-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/137544\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucinda O\u2019Sullivan\u2019s restaurant review: This retro spot has been booked out for weeks, but I finally nabbed a seat and found a joyous vibe plus bags of flavour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nWith all of its tables booked out for the foreseeable future, our critic managed to grab a seat as a walk-in at this uber-popular spot-by-the-sea in Clontarf\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dry aged beef burger, house pickles, American cheese, house burger sauce, homemade sesame potato bun. Photo: Lucinda O'Sullivan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/0c5e4935-f888-469f-b0ba-05eff39fabbd.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Dry aged beef burger, house pickles, American cheese, house burger sauce, homemade sesame potato bun. Photo: Lucinda O&#8217;Sullivan<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">You don\u2019t need to be a teenager to enjoy Chubbys in Clontarf for there\u2019s something in the joyous colourful atmosphere and vibe, not to mention the grub, that makes everyone feel happy. The decor screams of retro American diners, pink Cadillacs, Vespa scooters and Bill Haley \u201cRockin\u2019 around the clock\u201d. Whatever the buzz is about this newish eatery, it\u2019s infectious, making it one of the toughest spots around in which to bag a table.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Barry Stephens first came to notice with his 147 Deli on Parnell Street 10 years ago, when he was just 28. It quickly became the pinnacle of the city\u2019s sambo world, with salivating customers scurrying from their city offices and heading daily to D1 for his big fresh luscious meaty numbers. During the pandemic lockdowns, Stephens had the punters queuing again, this time at his Just Chubbys taco truck on the Clontarf Road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With all of its tables booked out for the foreseeable future, our critic managed to grab a seat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,18,19,17,4746,30901],"class_list":{"0":"post-137544","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-life-magazine","13":"tag-lucinda-osullivan"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}