Cornucopia: A haven of good, healthy food in central Dublin

Healthy food spots might be ten a penny in the capital now, but Cornucopia is the grandaddy of them all

Cornucopia: honest, tasty food which might just do you some good Pic: Maura Hickey

Cornucopia

19/20 Wicklow Street, Dublin 2

01-6777583, cornucopia.ie

Chef: Tony Keogh

The food journalist and author Michael Pollan recommends that for the good of our health, we shouldn’t eat anything our great-grandmothers wouldn’t recognise as food. This is all very well if your great-grandmother grew up somewhere like Italy or Spain, but it would make for a pretty dull diet in Ireland.

There’d be no pasta, for one thing. Never mind my great-grandmother ...