{"id":40547,"date":"2025-09-03T09:37:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T09:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/40547\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T09:37:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T09:37:10","slug":"dalkey-restaurant-the-queens-has-been-reimagined-with-no-airs-and-graces-just-great-food-writes-restaurant-critic-lucinda-osullivan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/40547\/","title":{"rendered":"Dalkey restaurant The Queens has been reimagined with no airs and graces just great food writes restaurant critic Lucinda O&#8217;Sullivan"},"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\">\nFrom the classy old-style menu to the celeb spotting, our critic says you would do well to find a better place for Sunday lunch\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Crispy panko calamari, with lemon and garlic aioli. Photo: Lucinda O'Sullivan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ed88f462-266f-400a-ba5a-fab5f4848e5d.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)\">Crispy panko calamari, with lemon and garlic aioli. 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)\">The Queens in Dalkey, a large hostelry set in a commanding Georgian building, has reigned supreme over the town since 1745. It has always been a colourful spot, from the outside in, starting with the well-tanned and glamorous regulars who adorn the streetside terraces, surveying all who pass in or out.<\/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)\">After all, Dalkey is a village that carries a certain cachet, being the celebrated home of many famous, arty and literary people down the years, including Maeve Binchy and Hugh Leonard. You might well bump into Bono in Jaipur restaurant having his favourite Keema Naan, and it\u2019s not unheard of to spot the odd 007 frequenting the town, whether it\u2019s Pierce Brosnan strolling the streets or Timothy Dalton sitting quietly on a bar stool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From the classy old-style menu to the celeb spotting, our critic says you would do well to find&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,19,17,4746,30901],"class_list":{"0":"post-40547","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-life-magazine","13":"tag-lucinda-osullivan"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40547","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=40547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}