{"id":261474,"date":"2026-01-01T10:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T10:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/261474\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T10:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T10:33:09","slug":"daruma-restaurant-review-when-a-tiny-plate-with-four-minute-slices-of-wagyu-beef-on-it-arrives-we-all-laugh-at-the-ridiculous-lilliputian-helping-but-its-incredibly-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/261474\/","title":{"rendered":"Daruma restaurant review:\u00a0\u2018When a tiny plate with four minute slices of wagyu beef on it arrives, we all laugh at the ridiculous Lilliputian helping, but it\u2019s\u00a0incredibly good\u2019"},"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\">\nOur food critic is already planning a return to this Japanese delight in Temple Bar\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Daruma restaurant. Photo: Gerry Mooney\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2c944bc1-6720-4268-85a5-522bb1145232.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)\">Daruma restaurant. Photo: Gerry Mooney<\/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)\">In the hope you\u2019re not planning to do anything so rash as to forswear alcohol or delicious food for the month of January, a month that\u2019s enough of a slog as it is without the need to pile on added deprivation, but may be craving meals not centred around the trifecta of cream, cheese and hefty quantities of roast meat, I offer for your delectation my latest discovery: Daruma.<\/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)\">I am, I acknowledge, late to this party, so apologies if you already know and love Daruma, as I do now. It may not be a new restaurant but it is new to me, and that\u2019s what counts here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Our food critic is already planning a return to this Japanese delight in Temple Bar Daruma restaurant. Photo:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,19,17,12487],"class_list":{"0":"post-261474","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\/115819394104191316","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261474","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=261474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}