{"id":397613,"date":"2026-04-14T08:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T08:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/397613\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T08:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T08:29:09","slug":"lucinda-osullivans-restaurant-review-of-tabla-and-coppinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/397613\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucinda O\u2019Sullivan\u2019s restaurant review of T\u00e1bla and Coppinger"},"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\">\nChecking out two great spots, our critic paid a visit to the brand new T\u00e1bla in Mount Merrion along with Coppinger in Dublin 2\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Leek quiche with salad at T\u00e1bla. Photo: Lucinda O'Sullivan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/a903b85a-3d12-41b4-adff-b5f58708fee0.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)\">Leek quiche with salad at T\u00e1bla. 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)\">When it comes to lunchtime in France, if you haven\u2019t bagged yourself a table by the time the clock strikes noon, you\u2019re on a sticky wicket. Rocking up, delighted with yourself, at 1.30pm to some little bistro you\u2019ve spied, will see you left out in the cold while the smug locals occupying the tables will look at you  pityingly as service is wrapped up. Too many times, it\u2019s happened 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)\">However, as we were on home ground, we took our chances and headed for an impromptu visit to a new French bistro in Mount Merrion, in what started out as Little Mike\u2019s a few years ago, became the rather good Esther\u2019s in between, and is now T\u00e1bla.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Checking out two great spots, our critic paid a visit to the brand new T\u00e1bla in Mount Merrion&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,6361,9879],"class_list":["post-397613","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\/397613","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=397613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}