17-05-2025
The Seafood Café, Temple Bar review — a Chappell Roan-laced fish spot
11 Sprangers Yard, Fownes Street Upper, Temple Bar, Dublin 2★ 8.5/10
We had never eaten a single oyster until we met Niall Sabongi. Home for Christmas while living in London ten years ago, we had heard about this tiny hatch on Crown Alley serving flamed oysters and chowder in old tin cans. It didn't sound like the Dublin we knew at all.
Squeezing into the Sylvanian Families-sized, crab shack-styled nano-restaurant, and setting ourselves upon a few rickety bar-stools in earshot of the galley kitchen, this felt like Amsterdam, Berlin or Copenhagen, not ground zero of Dublin's tourist trap, Temple Bar.
It was the ebullient Sabongi himself — whom we described before as the enfant terribleof Irish seafood, and where is the lie? — who
