Our critic can’t wait to return to this small and sophisticated new star of the Irish food scene
Comet restaurant
The most interesting Dublin restaurant opening so far this year is Kevin O’Donnell and Laura Chabal’s Comet, which has taken over the space previously occupied by Ruelle wine bar. It’s a small, sophisticated room panelled in oak and with such good acoustics that the proximity of the tables to one another does not matter. It reminds me of de Blacam and Meagher’s gorgeous Loos bar in Trinity, modelled on the American bar in Vienna.
I’ve eaten at Comet twice now, and will be going back – for Sunday lunch, for dinner, for whenever they’ll have me – because this is the most original food I’ve come across in the city in a while.