Sir, – Tom McGrath points out (Letters, December 28th) that all restaurants are apparently award winning and that all vegetables are locally sourced.
But he should console himself with the thought that these things, too, will pass. In the not-too-distant past it was a struggle to find in an Irish restaurant pork which was not pulled. But nowadays we seem to have reverted to the more traditional unpulled variety.
Hand-dived scallops, anyone? – Yours, etc,
PAT O’BRIEN,
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Sir, – Tom McGrath asks if there is any restaurant in which the vegetables are not locally sourced. What I would like to know is what home produces the homemade soup which features on many menus? – Yours, etc,
BOB HYLAND,
Dún Laoghaire,
Co Dublin.