Irish restaurants in Dublin
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Winding Stair
This Dublin institution has simple décor and warm atmosphere along with an excellent wine list and wonderful Irish menu – creamy fish pie, bacon and organic cabbage, steamed mussels or Irish farmyard cheeses – all prepared with much TLC.
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Tea Rooms
Designed to resemble a church, the Clarence’s Tea Rooms are spacious with a soaring ceiling and double-height windows, flooding the room with natural light. Appropriately, Mathieu Melin’s innovative menu commands respect, with an ambitious marriage of classic French cuisine and typically Irish produce. How about traditional Cork city crubeens (pig’s trotters), soft quail eggs and potato salad topped with mustard dressing followed by chartreuse of red leg partridge, smoked sausage, savoy cabbage and carrot, and juniper flavoured jus? The three-course Market Menu, available before 8pm Monday to Thursday, is excellent value at €39.
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Halo
Housed in this superslick hotel, the visually stunning Halo has soaring ceilings, a wall of mirrors and striking artwork, but don’t let this distract you from the Ireland–meets–continental Europe fusion fare that includes the likes of fillet of sea bream and Carlow lamb rump. Its critics complain that the menu competes with the staff to see who can be more stuffy, but in truth it’s the moneyed clientele that win hands down.
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Ely
Scrummy burgers, bangers and mash or wild smoked salmon salad are some of what you’ll find in this basement restaurant. Dishes are prepared with organic and free-range produce from the owner’s family farm in County Clare, so you can be assured of the quality. There’s a large wine list to choose from, with more than 70 by the glass. There is also a new branch of Ely in the old tobacco warehouse in Customs House Quay.
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Jacob’s Ladder
Looking over the playing fields of Trinity College – which counts as a view in Dublin – this fashionably formal restaurant is spread over two floors and is renowned for its exquisite and innovative Irish cuisine, which flirts with modern European influences. The food is a winner, with entrées like grilled goat’s cheese and mains such as mackerel and potato terrine guaranteed to impress.
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Trocadero
There used to be a time when the Troc was the only place in town for a splash-out celebratory meal, hopefully alongside the glitterati of Dublin’s screens and stages. No more, but old school thespians, hacks, musos and TV execs are still partial to this warm and friendly art-deco restaurant that won’t challenge your taste buds but rarely fails to deliver old favourites.
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Itsa4
While Itsa4’s funky flamboyant interior has been used for many fashion shoots, organic chef and writer Domini Kemp is far from frivolous. Her latest venture continues her ambitions to deliver well-sourced, quality food in delicious, down-to-earth ways. Lamb shank with lyonnaise potatoes or chicory, blue cheese and glazed pear salad are incredible. Serious food for fun people.
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Bleu
With black leather seats and massive windows overlooking swanky Dawson St, you can see and be seen at Eamon O’Reilly’s upmarket outpost of modern Irish cuisine. Confit of pork belly, wild mushroom and tarragon risotto and – that trademark of trendy menus – a ground rib eye burger keep upmarket-preclubber’s hunger pangs at bay for a few hours.
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Green Nineteen
Proof that good food doesn't have to be expensive resides in this sleek restaurant that specialises in locally sourced, organic grub. Braised lamb chump, corned beef, pot-roast chicken and the ubiquitous burger are but the meaty part of the menu which also includes salads and vegie options. We love it, but so does everybody else: book ahead.
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Shebeen Chic
Cracked chandeliers, paintings hung at odd angles and ne'er a matching table-and-chair set create the suitably ramshackle tone for a restaurant whose name comes from the Irish word for 'illegal drinking establishment'. The menu reads like it was written by Tom Waits: 'spudballs with broccoli, mushrooms and auld cheddar', or 'leek, spud and maybe mud' are representatives of a cuisine best described as 'Irish with attitude'. In the basement is a bar with a speakeasy vibe.
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Bentley’s Oyster Bar & Grill
Chef Richard Corrigan’s greatly successful interpretation of the London original has a menu with a modern Irish theme, but dont’t forget the oyster bar, where you can have a selection of shucked delights from Galway or Carlingford presented in a variety of ways.
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Roly's Bistro
Roly's is an institution with Dublin's business fraternity (the Daily Mail is based beside it). It's always packed and serves up reliably good nosh. The menu is confidently traditional but most people come for the hobnobbing.
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House
Wonderful spot on the main street leading away from the harbour where you can feast on dishes like crunchy Bellingham blue cheese polenta or wild Wicklow venison stew as well as a fine selection of fish.
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