{"id":154572,"date":"2025-10-31T03:54:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T03:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/154572\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T03:54:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T03:54:13","slug":"cala-restaurant-review-it-seems-a-little-confused-and-unsure-of-its-identity-but-prices-are-fair-and-its-heart-is-in-the-right-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/154572\/","title":{"rendered":"Cala Restaurant review: It seems a little confused and unsure of its identity \u2013\u00a0but prices are fair and its heart is in the right place"},"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\">Our critic enjoys the warm hospitality and some good food, but the wine list needs a revamp\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A selection of dishes from Cala\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/iwCala.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)\">A selection of dishes from Cala<\/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)\">D\u00fan Laoghaire is a town of two halves.  The folk who flock here at weekends to walk the piers, eat from market stalls and drink coffee on the terrace of Happy Out, located in the old baths, are envious of those who live here.<\/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)\">Yet the main drag, which runs all the way from the People\u2019s Park at one end, past the behemoth of a (largely empty) shopping centre hulking over the nominal town centre, to the Carnegie Library and the junction with York Road, which marks the town border, is a depressing stretch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Our critic enjoys the warm hospitality and some good food, but the wine list needs a revamp A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,19,17,12487],"class_list":{"0":"post-154572","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-katy-mcguinness"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115466762300220369","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154572","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=154572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}