Gourmet getaway: The best places to eat and drink on a weekend break in Limerick

When Ireland's most famous food writer recommends a restaurant in a Chinese shop in Limerick, you would be foolish to ignore it. In 2022 the Guardian newspaper opined that Blindboy was producing "some of the best food writing being published anywhere right now", so Carnival it is, a Chinese food store at the top of William Street. It is perhaps an abstruse starting point, but I always enjoy walking around a city, getting a sense of the different neighbourhoods. The shop is busy, with deliveries being unloaded and lugged down to the back. To the left hand side is Soba,…