{"id":362374,"date":"2026-03-24T10:26:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T10:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/362374\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T10:26:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T10:26:13","slug":"lucinda-osullivans-restaurant-review-as-rubbish-sacks-were-hauled-past-it-felt-like-we-were-bit-players-in-a-farcical-demo-of-how-not-to-run-a-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/362374\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucinda O\u2019Sullivan\u2019s restaurant review: \u2018As rubbish sacks were hauled past, it felt like we were bit players in a farcical demo of how not to run a restaurant\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\">With a team of experienced chefs running the show at a new restaurant on Dublin\u2019s Upper Leeson Street, what could possibly go wrong?\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Clockwise from front: Kung op, phad Thai noodles, crab fried rice. Photo: Lucinda O'Sullivan.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/a6eebbba-c7d4-4cd0-901a-af1448e5e66d.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)\">Clockwise from front: Kung op, phad Thai noodles, crab fried rice. 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)\">Imagine being the only customers in a new restaurant while a chef \u2014 in a not-exactly-sparkling apron \u2014 walks back and forth through the room hauling rubbish sacks. Then imagine him enlisting a waitperson to carry old cardboard boxes to a van parked outside the window.<\/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)\">He never even bid us the time of day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With a team of experienced chefs running the show at a new restaurant on Dublin\u2019s Upper Leeson Street,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,9879],"class_list":["post-362374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-lucinda-osullivan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362374","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=362374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}