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Wherever you are, you’ll find someplace great to enjoy a tasty meal or a quick snack at these carefully selected restaurants and cafes across the island of Ireland
A few years ago, I bumped into Mickael Viljanen outside The Greenhouse, the restaurant on Dawson Street in Dublin where he was working at the time. He had dark circles under his eyes, and as we chatted, he alternated drags of a cigarette with gulps from a can of energy drink.