Great food – shame about the name

A solid neighbourhood place offering honest, flavourful food cooked well and served up with a warm welcome

The Mystic Celt in Wicklow town: a solid neighbourhood place offering honest, flavourful food cooked wellMaura Hickey

The Mystic Celt

Church Street, Wicklow town, Co Wicklow

0404-69840; themysticcelt.ie

Chef: Paul Smith

Aren’t kids’ parties great? Not your own kids’, obviously, but other people’s kids, specifically the ones which involve you depositing your charges at a play centre, then leaving to enjoy two hours of free, sleep-inducing childcare.

So it was that we found ourselves at a loose end in Wicklow town, in search of Sunday lunch. I’d been keen to ...