Lucy’s Cafe Address : 6 Clanbrassil Street Upper, Dublin 8 Telephone : N/A Cuisine : Ukrainian Website : https://www.instagram.com/lucy.dublin.ie/ Opens in new window Cost : €€
In Nonnas, Vince Vaughn plays Joe Scaravella, a man who finds his way back to life by cooking with Italian grandmothers – a story drawn from the real Enoteca Maria in Staten Island. It could sound sentimental, until you scroll through Lucy Cafe’s Instagram and see three Ukrainian grandmothers folding dumplings and shaping pancakes at a high counter on Upper Clanbrassil Street. They make more than 1,500 varenyky each week – every motion a small act of remembrance, their hands moving with the same rhythm they learned half a century ago.
The recipes come from another grandmother – Lucy, or Lyudmyla – whose name the cafe
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