Roberta's: A menu that brings me right back

There were issues with some dishes, but the room, the staff and the menu’s flexibility will all bring me back before too long

Roberta’s in Dublin’s Temple Bar is the latest venture from the owners of the Dean Hotel Pic: Maura Hickey

Roberta’s

1 Essex Street East, Temple Bar, Dublin 2

01-6169612, robertas.ie

Chef: Troy Watson

I’d like to start this column with a long overdue apology. In 1987, unable to face yet another diatribe from my home economics teacher – I was her worst student by some distance – I switched my “baked to within an inch of its life” Swiss roll with the light-as-air one made by a classmate.

She’d made two, and ...