A dear friend I used to work with years ago had the innate art of trotting out well-seasoned nuggets with aplomb. “Don’t buy a dog and bark yourself,” the harsh but fair translation from the school of Karen Brady on The Apprentice being: experts know better than you do, sunshine. Listen up.
So when Mark Moriarty, the chef who was crowned Best Young Chef in the World in 2015, rattled off the places he most likes to eat on his Instagram account, I took note, and promptly booked Oliveto in Dún Laoghaire, which had been on my must-visit list for quite some time.
