"Luso does not make finding it easy. The restaurant sits on Church Street
in Cavan town, behind the Black Horse Inn, with no shopfront on the
street itself and no sign doing much to pull people in from the road.
For a lot of restaurants that would be a genuine problem. For Luso, on
the evidence of its 4.9 rating from 136 Google reviews, it has not been.

What is behind that entrance is sourdough Neapolitan pizza, made from a
dough fermented for roughly three days before it reaches the stone
oven, and dry aged smash burgers sourced from Herd Butchery in
Butlersbridge. Pizza toppings include Corleggy parmesan from Belturbet
and rocket from along the Annalee. A rotating craft beer selection and a
short cocktail list cover the drinks side.

The restaurant is open Thursday to Sunday evenings, and finding it for
the first time generally means walking along Church Street in Abbeyland
and specifically looking for the Black Horse Inn rather than for Luso's
own signage, since the entrance sits around the back of the pub. It is a
common enough point of confusion that most reviews mention it at some
point, usually as an aside rather than a complaint.

Once you have found it once, the second visit is straightforward. The
first is the one that takes an extra few minutes, and on the evidence of
the rating, those extra few minutes have not put people off returning.

For anyone in Cavan town weighing up whether a restaurant with no street
presence and an entrance behind a pub is worth the bother of finding, the
rating and the food behind it make a fairly clear case that it is. Some
things in a small town are worth a slightly awkward first visit, and on
the strength of what is on the plate, this is one of them.

Staff seem used to the confusion by now, based on how often reviews
mention being redirected or helped to find the door on a first visit,
which suggests the restaurant is aware of the problem even if it has not
put up additional signage to solve it directly. A quick search for the restaurant's name alongside Church Street before setting out saves most of the confusion in advance."