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A great steak, the north quays, the mid-1960s: name that cafe

Memory of a meal with a pal, and a little Fiat right outside

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Tue Apr 14 2026 - 06:00 • 1 MIN READ

Sir, – I have a great memory of a terrific cafe on the north quays down past the Four Courts. It must have been around 1966 and myself and my pal Joan had our dinner there – a great steak – with a newly acquired little second-hand Fiat parked outside – as you did in those days. The Fiat contained all our earthly goods as we were moving from one ramshackle flat to a slightly more salubrious one.

I would love someone to supply the name of the cafe. Anyone? – Yours, etc,

Eithne O’Callaghan,

Ballsbridge,

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