Dining Out

The 12 meals of Christmas: Expect classic flavours and great service at this new Greystones eatery

In this series, we are sharing some of our most loved and best-read restaurant reviews of 2023. Greystone’s latest The Harbour Kitchen is likely to find favour with the residents of this expanding Wicklow town

Sheerin Wilde of the Harbour Kitchen Restaurant in Greystones. Picture: Fergal Phillips

You wait ages for a new restaurant to open in your home town, then along they come like buses.

Strictly speaking, Greystones in Co Wicklow isn’t my home town – I’m a blow-in – but having lived there since before a certain pair of twins started making hummus and swimming in the sea at ungodly hours, I reckon I’m as well qualified as anyone to assess the food scene there.

That scene hasn’t always been ...