Lucinda O��Sullivan’s restaurant review: Bray’s chic and ambitious Nine has a menu that impresses but doesn’t always deliver

With positive chatter coming through the foodie grapevine, our reviewer was eager to check out Nine on Bray’s Albert Walk

Monkfish, mussel and vegetable broth, creamed potato, vadouvan foam. Photo: Lucinda O'Sullivan

Lucinda O'Sullivan

A few metres from Bray’s Dart station is Albert Walk, a dinky Victorian laneway, which, with its 19th-century houses, has always been home to little artisan shops, cafes and businesses.

I can still remember getting off the train as a child, with my parents, and running through it hoping to get quickly to the other end of Bray’s wonderful Victorian promenade where the ice-creams, amusement arcades and slot machines were. Bray really has two “faces”: on the one hand it’s a very busy business town and on the other it’s a wonderful seaside spot with lots of bars and restaurants.