{"id":278296,"date":"2026-02-03T09:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T09:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/278296\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T09:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T09:50:09","slug":"lucinda-osullivan-reviews-bang-restaurant-on-merrion-row-in-dublin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/278296\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucinda O&#8217;Sullivan reviews Bang restaurant on Merrion Row in Dublin"},"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\">\nHaving just completed a major refurb and a change of culinary direction, this already delightful hotspot on Dublin\u2019s Merrion Row is better than ever\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Squid stuffed with pigtail arroz cebolla on sobrasada sauce. Photo: Lucinda O\u2019Sullivan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/MGbang.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)\">Squid stuffed with pigtail arroz cebolla on sobrasada sauce. Photo: Lucinda O\u2019Sullivan<\/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)\">Striking me as being bang on trend, as it were, with its chic new iteration focusing on the contemporary cuisines of the Iberian Peninsula, Bang on Merrion Row is more assured, confident and vibrant than ever. There were no castanets, flamenco dancers, or images of sexy matadors, but rather a subtle, soft focused, sophisticated decor, which make\u2019s slipping quietly down to its subterranean main room, with its romantic cosy corners, feel like you\u2019ve discovered a secret hideaway on some back street in San Sebasti\u00e1n.<\/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)\">A stone\u2019s throw from the Shelbourne Hotel, Bang is in fact one of Dublin\u2019s best-known restaurants and has amassed a colourful history since its opening originally in 1999 by identical twins Christian and Simon Stokes, and named after their Danish mother Pia Bang, who had a very popular boutique on Grafton Street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Having just completed a major refurb and a change of culinary direction, this already delightful hotspot on Dublin\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,6361,9879],"class_list":["post-278296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-life-magazine","tag-lucinda-osullivan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278296","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=278296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}