{"id":338418,"date":"2026-03-10T08:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T08:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/338418\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T08:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T08:08:09","slug":"lucinda-osullivan-reviews-forest-avenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/338418\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucinda O&#8217;Sullivan reviews Forest Avenue"},"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\">\nFinally getting the international kudos that it always deserved, John and Sandy Wyer\u2019s newly-starred restaurant is a truly ethereal experience, writes our critic\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Forest Avenue interior. PHoto: Lucinda O'Sullivan.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/0d845b96-e1b5-465d-bc6c-592d3329d272.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)\">Forest Avenue interior. PHoto: Lucinda O&#8217;Sullivan.<\/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)\">\u201cIs this the best food you\u2019ve ever had?\u201d my friend, the fashionista, said quizzically almost to herself, whilst ecstatically savouring a croissant pudding with pumpkin caramel and manzanilla, at the tail end of what had been a stunning tasting menu. There\u2019s no doubt it was one of the most memorable experiences I\u2019ve had, and I\u2019ve had quite a few in my 30 years as a restaurant critic.<\/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)\">We\u2019d worked our way through a series of faultless exquisite dishes, each one a work of art, each one displaying depths of flavour and skill, and each one perfectly chosen to lead seamlessly into the next. Not only that, with tasting menus topping \u20ac200-plus in many high-end restaurants these days, this ethereal experience came in at a mere \u20ac89.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Finally getting the international kudos that it always deserved, John and Sandy Wyer\u2019s newly-starred restaurant is a truly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,6361,9879],"class_list":["post-338418","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\/338418","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=338418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}