Shepherd’s delight amid the flocking crowds

The signs were good from the get-go, with the incredibly gracious restaurant manager waving off my apologies

Sussex Restaurant on Sussex Terrace, Upper Leeson Street, Dublin 2: comforting food and great service PIc: Fergal Phillips

The Sussex

8/9 Sussex Terrace, Upper Leeson Street, Dublin 4

01-5388100, thesussex.ie

Chef: Dave Coffey

It is a truth universally acknowledged that if you are late for a restaurant booking – or late for anything, really – that the world will go out of its way to make that bad situation worse.

So it was that I found myself on the world’s slowest-moving bus while my dinner guest twiddled his thumbs at the ...