Cantina Valentina Address : The Hoxton, Dublin, 1-5 Exchequer Street, Dublin D02 E044 Telephone : 01 2635020 Cuisine : Peruvian Website : https://thehoxton.com/dublin/cantina-valentina/ Opens in new window Cost : €€€
I am instinctively suspicious of hotel restaurants. Too often they are upholstered into submission. Thankfully, Cantina Valentina, the Peruvian-inspired restaurant inside the new Hoxton on Exchequer Street in Dublin 2, sidesteps that fate.
The room is organised around a semicircular bar, faced in rough, widely spaced brickwork and topped in yellow marble, with lamps sitting directly on the counter. The same curve completes the circle on the far side as a raw bar.
We settle into a banquette at a generously sized table, sipping a very fine pisco sour classic (€12) and spicy Margarita (€14).
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