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I'm back to Ireland for the weekend. Mind you, it wasn't a fun journey - again. My flight was delayed - I found out on the plane - so I thought I'd grab something to eat in the airport . My misfortune was to figure that my best bet in the departure lounge was Terracotta , an Italian .  Oh wow, was that a mistake. First off, as I was being seated, the person attending to me warned me that they closed in half an hour (9.30, like everything else here). It took some argument before she conceded that that meant I had to have ordered by 9.30, not finished eating! All right - so I ordered a glass of wine, a chicken Milanese, which comes with pasta. Ugh. The wine was insipid, the chicken was tough, the tomato sauce covering the pasta was watery - and I see previous reviews confirm that. Not to mention that, for all that I was assured that yes, I could keep eating - I have never been made to feel so uncomfortable. They told me to pay at the till when I was done.. then decided I wasn...