The food was as good, the psychic was better
Written: Oct 13 '00
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Pros: Good food, free entertainment!
Cons: The only real cajun dishes were gumbo and jambalaya -- but hey, they were still done well.
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| etain's Full Review: Dublin |
Review Topic: Restaurants
In January of 1998 I visited Ireland, and heard of a restaurant called "Old New Orleans" in Dublin. I had just been to New Orleans a few months before and was curious as to the Irish interpretation of Cajun cuisine.
I kept the menu solely for its definitions of "jambalaya" and "gumbo"; the jambalaya actually was on par with a bowl of same that I had had at Tipitina's.
As for the "psychic" part, though...I had stopped in to see a psychic in New Orleans for a lark, and ended up with a guy who was tremendously amusing but no more intuitive than I am when I'm half asleep. I wasn't expecting anything of the sort at Old New Orleans in Dublin either. But the owner of the restaurant, a friendly and distinguished-looking gent named Liam who stopped by my table to chat with me a couple times, suddenly asked when I was done with dinner whether I knew that there was a palm reader on the premises. I had heard something like that, and said yes, I was curious; "where is he?" I asked, looking around. "Oh, that's me, let me just finish something in the back room and I'll be back," he said.
He returned ten minutes later, sat across the table from me, took my two hands in his and studied first the backs of my hands a moment. "Okay, you're probably going to live a long while," he began.
"Uh-huh," I responded -- not an affirmation, more like an "I'm listening".
He stopped and looked at me. "Actually, would you mind not giving me any hints or clues like that?" he asked. "It works better that way." I held my tongue from then on out, and he spent the next fifteen minutes telling me things about myself that I was the only person to know -- and a thing or two that *I* didn't even know about myself. Then he sat back, blinked a bit, and confessed that initially he was a little hesitant to give me a reading because he'd had a sense that *I* was psychic!
We had a wonderful conversation after that; he stayed at my table and we chatted a little bit about the reading he'd just had, what lead him to reading palms, what lead him to open a Cajun restaurant in Dublin, the virtues of New Orleans in general, literature, filmmaking -- it was a delight.
Even if this entire reading and conversation was nothing more than Blarney, he was a tremendously warm and friendly gentleman. And the reading was completely free -- he makes his living off the restaurant, and apparently just offers palm readings to a few customers a night just for the heck of it.
Recommended:
Yes
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