Restaurant review: This creative new early bird menu is about more than cheap eats – it’s a statement

Whatever happened to the early bird? A few years back, they were all the rage; now there are rare, So an Instagram post from one of the chefs who works at Barry Sun’s Volpe Nera alerting me to the restaurant’s new €38 Neighbourhood Menu (available Wednesdays and Thursdays from 5pm-6.45pm) had me rounding up a couple of friends who live nearby and booking in. It’s not just the price that piqued my interest, though.

“This isn’t just about cheap eats,” wrote the chef. “This is about something far more. Barry Sun is doing something genuinely radical.



He’s throwing down the gauntlet to us as a team. He’s telling us to find our own bloody voices..