{"id":269911,"date":"2026-01-29T09:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T09:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/269911\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T09:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T09:56:11","slug":"bang-restaurant-review-the-reincarnated-bang-is-all-about-fun-and-flavour-and-the-pork-fat-caramel-is-a-must-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/269911\/","title":{"rendered":"Bang restaurant review:\u00a0\u2018The\u00a0reincarnated Bang is all about fun and flavour\u00a0\u2013 and the pork fat caramel is a must-order\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\">\nKicky\u2019s duo Eric Matthews and Richie Barrett are blasting this old Dublin favourite to a new level, with a tasty menu perfect for groups\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bang restauarant. Photo: Frank McGrath \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/b26d086c-0467-4b73-811d-9d7852d39a08.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)\">Bang restauarant. Photo: Frank McGrath <\/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)\">It has been about 100 years since I last ate at Bang, despite the fact I walk past several times a week. My sense  \u2013 possibly misguided \u2013 has been that Bang is a corporate favourite, which may have been good for turnover but off-putting to me.<\/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)\">And it\u2019s been a long time since I heard anyone talking about the food.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kicky\u2019s duo Eric Matthews and Richie Barrett are blasting this old Dublin favourite to a new level, with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,3412,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-269911","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-katy-mcguinness","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}