Restaurant Review - Dope Tapas
Wednesday 02 April 2025
In 1789, when the French peasants took to the streets of Paris, revolting over the price of bread, Queen Marie Antoinette from her palace at Versailles, demonstrating an utterly elitist ignorance of their cost-of-living crisis, famously said: “Let them eat cake.” That quip didn’t end too well for her...
The stodgy staples of life are a necessity in every society, to pad out the more expensive proteins and vegetables — the Italians with their pasta, the Asians with rice and the Middle Easterns with their couscous. For us, it’s the spud — boiled, mashed, chipped, colcannon, roasted — any which way — most of us were brought up on them.
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First Published In The Sunday Independent