Plenty of crowd pleasers – just lose the boards

Barry, Keating and their team haven’t stayed in business this long without doing lots of things right

Gotham South in Stillorgan is hugely popular with local families Pic: Maura Hickey

Gotham South

4 Kilmacud Road Lower,

Stillorgan, Co Dublin

01-2122505, gothamsouth.ie

Chef: Ash Thulseepersad

One of the first restaurants I frequented regularly when I first moved to Dublin was the Gotham Café on South Anne Street. I say regularly, but what that really equated to back then was once every couple of months, which was as much as my salary would allow for.

I loved it: the framed copies of Rolling Stone magazine ...