Plate-licking good at Leeson Street’s stylish new arrival

Le Perroquet,

133 Upper Leeson Street, Dublin 4

01-6771223, leperroquet.ie

Chef: Chris Fullam

Of all the manky, ill-advised concoctions I drank in my younger years, Pernod and black had to be the worst. For those of you unfamiliar with this particular libation, it was a yucky mix of pastis and blackcurrant cordial which was typically drunk when you were going ‘out out’.

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