Total recall: warm Noble will bring you right back

Who could blame my new friend at the next table for going back 15 times?

Noble in Holywood, Co Down: serving simple but wonderful dishes with a complete lack of pretensionPressEye

Noble

27a Church Road,

Holywood, Co Down

0044-248-90425655 noblehollywood.com

Chef: Pearson Morris

As weekend commutes from college go, Dublin to Drogheda hardly sounds onerous. But when I was doing it on a regular basis, it involved a bus journey through Drumcondra, Santry, Swords, Balbriggan, Gormanstown and God knows where else, which could easily take two hours on a bad day.

Memories of those interminable trips still linger, with the result that it never ...