Restaurant review: Playing Host to a multitude of fine flavours

Any restaurant that can revive the tired reputation of the pumpkin at Halloween gets this critic’s vote

Host in Ranelagh, Dublin 6, knows how to treat a pumpkin. Picture: Fergal Phillips

Host

13 Ranelagh, Dublin 6

01-5612617, hostrestaurant.ie

Chef: Niall McDermott

Pumpkins. You can’t avoid the things at this time of the year. As I sit writing this, I can see three on the windowsill of my kitchen (none bought by me, I hasten to add). My inbox is groaning with emails about pumpkin pies, pumpkin coffees, pumpkin bagels and pumpkin smoothies.

In a coffee shop a couple of days ago, the couple in front of ...