The Legal Eagle restaurant review: ‘The roasts are substantial, the plates piled high with vegetables beyond reproach, and service is brilliant’

Our critic can’t wait to return to this recently reopened gastropub beside the Four Courts

The Legal Eagle. Picture: Dave Sweeney

Katy McGuinness

The Sunday roast. Whether you love it or loathe it probably depends upon which end of the cooking or receiving continuum you tend to be.

I’ve lost count of the number of Sunday roasts I’ve cooked over the past couple of decades, peeling and par-boiling mountains of potatoes and serving up huge ribs of beef on the bone, multiple legs of lamb and as many as four chickens at a time for multi-generational gangs of in-laws and cousins.