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Sat 11 Nov 2009A little bit of madness is a good thing
IT’S VERY EASY to forget that there was a time – not all that long ago – when restaurants were something of a rare species in Ireland.
If you can remember back to when interest rates were truly excruciating, in the 1980s, you may also recall that Dublin had two premier-league restaurants, Restaurant Patrick Guilbaud and White’s on the Green, and a handful of good, sound deuxième cru joints. Outside Dublin, you could have numbered the proper restaurants, such as the Arbutus Lodge in Cork, on the fingers of both hands and still had a few digits left over.
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