Tucked down a lane off super-central Dawson Street, on the site of a former wine bar, new arrival Comet is a European-style bistro that's got foodies in the Irish capital all aflutter. The pedigree of the team who run it is impressive: chef Kevin O'Donnell cut his teeth at Dublin favorite Bastible before working in starry kitchens in Denmark and returning home to roll out popular supper clubs.
It's an exciting time to be a food-loving visitor to Dublin. In a perfect storm of culinary magic, talented young chefs who have honed their talents in hotspots such as Denmark, New York and London are now firing up the kitchens in the city's most exciting restaurants. A new European-style bistro that could have been plucked from Copenhagen or Paris proves how much the bar has been raised in recent years;