AA Gill reviews

Sunday, December 19, 2010 - I loved the rabbit terrine with chanterelles, date puree and caper and raisin dressing - elegant and carefully constructed. But best was Wicklow venison, with pumpkin, black pudding and the wacky, comedy addition of pecan nuts...L'Ecrivain is a very decent, hospitable, friendly, stay-a-while hybrid restaurant. Local and native, indigenous, but marbled with French technique and flair. It tasted of hope and recovery, and stoicism, and humour, and poetry, and all those Irish things that are more important than money.