It’s only relatively recently that the affluent SoCoDu village of Blackrock has managed to attract and sustain good restaurants. Surprisingly, for most of my time living in the ‘borough of Dun Laoghaire Rathdown’, it’s been something of a culinary desert. I was thinking about this recently following the death of the wonderful chef and artist Colin O’Daly, who was highly respected and loved in the hospitality industry.