»In which we complement the curry chips

Now when I am stumbling over to Beshoffs on O'Connell Street, I know how to plan my footsteps before and after: the Proper Pint web site shows maps of Dublin, with nifty annotations about each pub. And I suppose that if I am out late, then I can lift my feet over to the Beshoffs take-away on Westmoreland Street.

The famous Beshoffs fish and chip restaurant was founded by Ivan Iylanovich Beshoff a seaman in the navy of the Russian Tsar Nicholas II.

He fled Russia after he took part in an ill-fated mutiny on the battleship Potemkin at Odessa in 1905 and arrived in Ireland in 1912 with the intention of travelling on to Canada. He missed his boat connection and decided to stay.

Three hurrahs for curry chips! and for pints! and for cask ales!