Dining Out

The 12 meals of Christmas: Classic dishes and great service keep The Old Spot humming

In this series, we are sharing some of our most loved and best-read restaurant reviews of 2023. This Dublin 4 gastro-pub offers comfort food that’s full of flavour

The Old Spot, Dublin 4: expect confidently cooked, comforting food served by a friendly team. Picture: Fergal Phillips

There are not, it has to be said, many gastro-pubs that will sell you a bottle of 1981 Château Mouton Rothschild for €1,500, or a 1988 Château Lynch Bages Grand Cru Classé for €950.

Then again, I suspect there aren’t that many gastro-pubs that are as well located when it comes to having easy access to the affluent punters who might stretch to those prices as The Old Spot.

It’s on Bath Avenue in Dublin ...