It can be hard for groups to pick a restaurant to go to.
You've got someone in the group who is usually a picky eater, then you have someone who might be vegetarian, lactose intolerant or coeliac.
But this refreshing Italian restaurant in Lucan is like stepping into Italy with their "authentic vibes", and they cater for everyone.
The tall blue building at the top of the main street in Lucan village, Numero 6 has various pizzas and pastas dishes with unique and delicious flavours.
The restaurant owned by Nitheesh Gopalarishnana, serves genuine food based on updated classic recipes, not alchemy, and the importance of using only the finest local ingredients.
The modern European restaurant also offers a range of perennial favourites including bruschetta, stuffed mushrooms, deep-fried brie, buffalo chicken wings and their own Numero 6 salad: tomato, cucumber, onion, olives, peppers and dressing.
Walking into the relaxed ambience of the restaurant, the lights are dim, the smell of food lingers from the kitchen and you’re well looked afrer from the minute you walk in the door.
Supervisor Chloe Donadoni gushed about how they’re back in business after the pandemic, with locals ordering food from the Just Eat app and families organising functions in their upstairs area, the staff at Numero 6 are delighted to see their customers with big smiles and full bellies once again.
Chole told Dublin Live: “We’re an Italian restaurant and we do some Greek food as well. We opened in November 2019, I only started working here in May 2021 and I’m the supervisor now.
“I love all the customers, we get returning customers all the time, all the locals come in and we know them by name. It’s lovely, it’s a real community based business.
“They love the pizza, they’re always saying it’s better than Dominoes and that it’s the best pizza ever. The pasta dishes are authentic Italian and I recommend the carbonara, it’s my favourite.
“We have tortellini and risotto for vegetarians and those dishes are fab. I love the diavola pizza, there’s chorizo, pepperoni, jalapenos and chilli flakes on it.
“Working just before Christmas was so strange, we’d only be open from 5:00pm to 8:00pm because of restrictions. We weren’t getting as many customers, it was quiet and it was hard on everyone.”
Chloe has love for the staff as well as the customers, she even said: “everyone working here gets along so well, we’re one big family”, and she's delighted to be back working normally with them.
"We’ve quite an Italian vibe here, we’ve all the prints on the wall, we always play Italian music and we have the Italian wine.
"In the last two weeks we were so busy, we have a function room upstairs and we recently had a baby shower in it and we’ve a full restaurant a lot of the time too so business is going back to normal."
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