Lucinda O'Sullivan's best and worst restaurants of 2025: 'Food wise, it was a poor effort from beginning to end - but I did like the wallpaper'

"UDDER NONSENSE Kicking off the year on a low."

""There's cost cutting, then there's simply bad value," I wrote of The Cow in D4."

"Previously Kevin Arundel's Chop House, and lauded back in the day by Anthony Bourdain, a surf 'n turf with four prawns, a budgie-sized chicken breast, and a shellfish-less seafood board of lesser padding all added up to a disgruntled food critic plus a quick exit."

The Cow in Dublin 4, formerly Kevin Arundel's Chop House, offered a disappointing dining experience marked by reduced portion sizes and missing seafood. A surf 'n turf featured only four prawns and a very small chicken breast, while a seafood board arrived without shellfish and with minimal filling. The combination of skimpy servings and apparent cost cutting produced poor value for money. The dining experience prompted immediate dissatisfaction and an early departure. The restaurant's web address is listed as thecow.ie.

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