An ambitious menu slows down service at this Middle Eastern spot, but the food is reasonably priced and worth a try

Beitna restaurant on Dublin's Dame Street

Beitna restaurant on Dublin’s Dame Street

As most of us are currently enmeshed in the annual January challenge of making ends meet while still trying to have a life, I thought I should tell you about a new and reasonably priced dry restaurant on Dublin’s Dame Street which I visited earlier this month before a screening of Marty Supreme at the Irish Film Institute.

(More on this later, as the fact that we were on our way to a movie is relevant. In terms of the film itself, my tuppence worth is that, while Timothée Chalamet is a joy, the script is a mess and the whole thing would have benefitted from being half an hour shorter.)