{"id":330220,"date":"2026-03-05T12:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T12:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/330220\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T12:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T12:06:11","slug":"le-gazin-restaurant-review-neither-of-us-had-eaten-somalian-food-before-but-the-experience-was-not-intimidating-and-it-would-be-hard-to-spend-more-than-e50-on-dinner-for-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/330220\/","title":{"rendered":"Le Gazin restaurant review: \u2018Neither of us had eaten Somalian food before, but the experience was not intimidating \u2013\u00a0and it would be hard to spend more than \u20ac50 on dinner for two\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\">\nThe warm welcome, tasty dishes and generous portions at this Somali spot impress our food critic\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Le Gazin restaurant. Photo: Steve Humphreys\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/57baec7d-33d6-4a8c-9dea-d876eb5d52b8.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)\">Le Gazin restaurant. Photo: Steve Humphreys<\/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 little after 6.30pm on a recent Tuesday evening and we\u2019re lucky to land one of the last tables at Le Gazin, a Somali restaurant on Dublin\u2019s Dorset Street.<\/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)\">Le Gazin has been recommended to me by hospitality industry veteran Joe Macken, a man whose tips are always to be taken seriously, particularly when they pertain to his neighbourhood of the north inner city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The warm welcome, tasty dishes and generous portions at this Somali spot impress our food critic Le Gazin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,3412],"class_list":["post-330220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-katy-mcguinness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330220","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=330220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}