{"id":421248,"date":"2026-04-28T07:03:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T07:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/421248\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T07:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T07:03:10","slug":"lucinda-osullivans-restaurant-review-im-sure-the-terrace-will-be-packed-all-summer-but-what-a-difference-smiling-service-would-have-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/421248\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucinda O\u2019Sullivan\u2019s restaurant review: \u2018I\u2019m sure the terrace will be packed all summer \u2013 but what a difference smiling service would have made\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 food and decor at the new BoCo Bar + Oven on Vernon Ave in D3 may be set to impress, but the service left a lot to be desired, writes our critic\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pizza no.1 of crushed tomato sauce, fior de latte, basil oil. Photo: Lucinda O'Sullivan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/8c8bb09c-7967-47b1-9338-c698a896a7a0.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)\">Pizza no.1 of crushed tomato sauce, fior de latte, basil oil. 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)\">It doesn\u2019t matter if it\u2019s a cheap casual caff or an up-its-own-ass Michelin-starred restaurant, the meeter greeter is as important as the chef, for first impressions are lasting impressions. It\u2019s vital too that in the excitement of opening, a restaurant doesn\u2019t come across as so cool and trendy that they\u2019re doing you a favour by letting you spend your money.<\/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)\">If this is the front of house attitude, the good work of the kitchen can be written off in a flash. Gordon Ramsay always advocates for staff to smile, even if things go wrong, smile. People will go back for the smile but not for the scowl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The food and decor at the new BoCo Bar + Oven on Vernon Ave in D3 may be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,6361,9879],"class_list":["post-421248","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\/421248","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=421248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}