Restaurant Review: Unlocking rich flavours requires a light touch

Chris Maguire’s precise, beautifully presented and incredibly flavourful dishes will lure customers, new and old, to the banks of the canal

Locks: aiming to be a neighbourhood restaurant rather than a Michelin star-chaser Pic: Fergal Phillips

Locks

1 Windsor Terrace, Portobello, Dublin 8

01-4163655, locksrestaurant.ie

Chef: Chris Maguire

You’ll have to forgive me if I seem a little excitable, but I think I’m still suffering from a bit of post-traumatic snow disorder. Between trudging to work in a blizzard, worrying about other people trudging to work through a blizzard and enduring a hair-raising drive back home, it was quite the week.

I had it easy compared to lots of ...