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Juniors restaurant, on Bath Ave, Dublin 4. ‘Owners Paul and Barry McNerney have a good eye for detail.’ Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill

The last time I was in New York (quite a while ago, sadly), I found myself wandering around the East Village one morning, looking for breakfast. I should, of course, have researched where to eat, but serendipity did its thing and led me to B+H Dairy Kosher Restaurant, a Jewish Mexican vegetarian (!) diner. Not what you’d expect, but actually, yeah, New York and all that.

I could not have been happier, washed over with that wave of euphoria you get when you realise you’ve got lucky and stumbled upon something really special.

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