Restaurant Review - Daata South Great George's St
Wednesday 28 January 2026
My better half was quite used to me waking up on a Sunday morning and saying, “I think we’ll go to Cork today, or London.” Indeed, on one occasion it was France, as the BBC weather forecast informed me that it was “calm down around the Lizard”, and so would be a perfectly calm sailing from Rosslare to Cherbourg. Ringing Irish Ferries to make a booking, the somewhat startled chap had said “Do you realise, missus, it’s now 11am and the boat sails at 4pm?” “No, problem.” says I, blithely. “If we miss it, we’ll go to Kerry.” It was one of the best things we ever did, rolling off the boat at Cherbourg with no reservations anywhere – it’s the way I like to travel, constantly curious as to what’s around the corner. Anything more than two nights in one place, no matter how gorgeous, is my idea of a nightmare.
Anyway, on another Sunday morning in 2018, our ‘surprise’ trip was only down the road to Greystones, where I’d spotted a new Pakistani restaurant doing brunch, which was something of a novelty for an Asian restaurant at the time. Owned by Waseem Saeed, we thoroughly enjoyed it, and more particularly the fact that the head chef was his wife, Rahat, joining the limited ranks of female chefs in Ireland, not to mention head chefs.
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First Published In The Sunday Independent