Restaurant Review

Gillian Nelis: Intimate ‘swing joint’ Italian is small of plate, but big on taste

Service was exemplary in this new cocktail bar and small plates restaurant, where it’s all about the aperitifs, spritzes and the negronis

Aperitivo, new cocktail bar and restaurant on Nassau Street in Dublin: you’ll be sitting very close to your neighbour, but it’s all part of the charm. Picture: Fergal Phillips

On the website for Aperitivo, the owners of this new cocktail bar and small plates restaurant on Nassau Street in Dublin state that its “intimate ambiance will make you feel as though you have been transported to an Italian swing joint in the 1950s”.

This sounds good to me. I’m sure Italian swing joints in the 1950s had their own issues, but frankly, any escape from the current tsunami of economic bad news sounds pretty ...