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A pick of our faves...

	Restaurant	Why Visit?	Cost	Contact
	Amnesty Freedom Café	The air of righteousness can be stifling. But if you can handle the self-loathing that comes with visiting this cut-price café, it's well worth the anguish. Until recently, Amnesty offered... MORE	?	48 Fleet Street Dublin 2 Tel: +353 1 677 6361 Link
	Aqua	Diners are advised to avoid restaurants with glorious waterfront views. Or, as Andy Rooney put it in a slightly different context: "Never trust the food in a restaurant on top of the tallest... MORE	????	1 West Pier Howth County Dublin Tel: +353 1 832 0690 Link
	Avoca	Men find this top-floor dining room slightly intimidating. The sight of all those mums and daughters gossiping makes some chaps run for the safety of the jacks. Silly boys. Avoca is a wonderful... MORE	??	11-13 Suffolk Street Dublin 2 Tel: +353 1 672 6019 Link
	Aya	This fashion-hag favourite beside the Brown Thomas car park is still doing the business. We often wonder how much life there is in the conveyor belt gimmick. There are more spring rolls than raw fish... MORE	???	Clarendon Street Dublin 2 Tel: +353 1 6771544 Link
	Bang Café	This model-friendly boîte has been remodeled for the new season. There are new bathrooms, a new bar and additional seating, including a booth for eight people. It's still depressing. Not... MORE	????	11 Merrion Row Dublin 2 Tel: +353 1 6760898 Link
	Bar Italia	Mick Wallace's Italian Quarter is one of the more inspired retail developments in recent years. The menu at this quayside bistro is unfussy - antipasto misto, buffalo mozzarella salad with basil... MORE	???	26 Bloom's Lane Lower Ormond Quay Dublin 1 Tel: +353 1 8741000 Link
	Bijou	Newly renovated after much drama, this grown-up suburban is popular among locals who take hospitality seriously, and it is worth making a trek to investigate what all the fuss is about. First... MORE	????	47 Highfield Road Rathgar Dublin 6 Tel: +353 1 4961518
	Brasserie Sixty6	There was much hoopla when this brasserie arrived on Georges Street a couple of years ago. It opened fully-formed, which is unusual for Dublin - evidence of an imagination, and no little... MORE	????	66 South Great Georges Street Dublin 2 Tel: +353 1 400 5878 Link
	Browne's	While happenings here are overshadowed by those down the road in the Shelbourne, this small hotel and restaurant has been quietly undergoing a revolution of its own. The Stein group bought the... MORE	?????	22 St Stephens Green Dublin 2 Tel: +353 1 6383939 Link
	Café Fresh	The Powerscourt Centre is mighty odd - bonsai trees and wooden shoes fight for attention with antiques, Irish fashion and mediocre restaurants. Yet there is nothing ill-chosen or purely... MORE	?	Powerscourt Townhouse Centre South William Street Dublin 2 Tel: +353 6719669 Link
	CaféBarDeli at Bewleys	The bad news is that Bewley's feels largely unchanged. That is also the good news. Jay Bourke and Eoin Foyle made culinary history in 2005, when they colonised the lofty, clattery café.... MORE	??	78/79 Grafton Street Dublin 2 Tel: +353 1 672 7720 Link
	Caifé Una	Dining options as Gaeilge have long been scarce in this Anglophone city. Along comes this tranquil cellar spot to save the mother tongue. Flower boxes, block wood furniture and a stone... MORE	??	46 Kildare Street Dublin 2 Tel: + 353 1 670 6087 Link
	Canal Bank Café	At lunchtime, CBC is full of local office workers. In the evenings the same comfort food classics entice locals like Louis Walsh and Andrea Corr. (Try to ignore her. Have a good snigger at him.)... MORE	??	146 Upper Leeson Street Dublin 2 Tel: +353 1 664 2135 Link
	Cavistons	It's too small to seat a rugby team. One wall is space-opera murals straight from a prog-rock album cover. The other wall is a curtain. Is this really the best seafood restaurant in Dublin?... MORE	????	59 Glasthule Road Glasthule County Dublin Tel: +353 1 2809120 Link
	Chapter One	The location is grim. The staircase down to the basement looks unpromising. The locked front door does not bode well. And the vaults that house the dining room remind one of a warm mausoleum.... MORE	?????	18/19 Parnell Square Dublin 1 Tel: +353 1 8732266 Link
	China House	Drunk, we headed for Parnell Street: Ground Zero for cheap ethnic cuisine. On Moore Street, however, we were lured into China House, seduced by its bare walls, concrete floor and fluorescent strip... MORE	?	139 Parnell Street Dublin 1 Tel: +353 1451 3349
	China-Sichuan	An ugly row of shops in Stillorgan is the unlikely setting for Dublin's most acclaimed Chinese restaurant. For two decades the Hui family have set remarkably high standards in a remarkably drab... MORE	???	4 Lower Kilmacud Road Stillorgan County Dublin Tel: +35312884817
	Cilantro	In Castleknock, the mediocre Indian Village has been replaced by this curious new contender. Our preliminary dips were extraordinarily tasty, particularly one made with tamarind and chillies, giving... MORE	????	Old Navan Road Castleknock Dublin 15 Tel: +353 8243443
	Cooper's	One of those places that diners are inclined to forget: it's been here a while, it is neither very cheap nor outstandingly good, parking is a nuisance, and this patch of Leeson Street doesn't really... MORE	???	62 Lower Leeson Street Dublin 2 Tel: +35316768615 Link
	Cornucopia	The crustiest restaurant in the city? In the early evening this place is crawling with vegans and vegetarians of the skinniest/most annoying kind. Yet it boasts the most intriguing selection of... MORE	?	19 Wicklow Street Dublin 2 Tel: +353 1 677 7583 Link
	Dali's	Locals are fiercely loyal to what they say is the only decent restaurant in Blackrock, so why do I find it slightly grim? Maybe it’s because I only ever lunch here. Darkness and soft light... MORE	????	63-65 Main Street Blackrock County Dublin Tel: +35312780660
	Darwin's	This small steakhouse on Aungier Street is highly regarded by a great many critics. Food and Wind calls it a "buzzy, fun and modern place." The last of those plaudits is at least accurate.... MORE	???	16 Aungier Street Dublin 2 Tel: +35314757511
	Dax	Olivier Meisonnave is a handsome French guy - women adore him - and his basement restaurant and wine bar is widely respected. But it isn't all sweetness and light. When we asked Olivier... MORE	????	23 Upper Pembroke Street Dublin 2 Tel: +35316761494 Link
	Deep	There is something comfortable about these suburban dining rooms. Not, of course, that Howth is a suburb - rather it seems that its peninsular inhabitants view themselves as a class of their... MORE	????	12 West Pier Howth County Dublin Tel: +35318063921 Link
	Diep Le Shaker	So you want to relive those lazy days on Koh Samui? Come to this uptown ethnic stunner for the red prawn curry served in a baby coconut, or for the 'dynamite drunken beef.' Hot! They are justifiably... MORE	????	55 Pembroke Lane Dublin 2 Tel: +35316611829 Link
	Dunne & Crescenzi	Lei manca la sua casa? Unpretentious and continental, the décor in this enoteca - one of several owned by an Irish/Italian couple - owes much to the sobriety of the... MORE	???	11 Seafort Avenue Sandymount Dublin 4 Tel: +35316673252 Link
	Eden	When it opened ten years ago, critics compared it - unfairly - to a swimming pool. They hailed the modern Irish cooking of Eleanor Walsh, who has since gone on to devise the menus in... MORE	????	Meeting House Square Dublin 2 Tel: +35316705372 Link
	Elephant and Castle	In 1989 the United States government denied entry to a very fine Irish chef. And because they wouldn’t let this very fine Irish chef enter their country to work at Elephant & Castle in... MORE	???	18 Temple Bar Dublin 2 Tel: +35316793121 Link
	Ely	Erik and Michelle Robson unveiled their product - upscale foodie wine bar - on Ely Place before venturing into impressive new premises in chq and Hanover Quay. The original of the species... MORE	????	22 Ely Place Dublin 2 Tel: +35316768986 Link
	Er Buchetto	There is something charming about this glorified coffee-shop. We like having brunch here at the weekend, when students queue up for seats at the pin-prick tables. Many of the customers (and most of... MORE	??	71 Ranelagh Village Dublin 6 Tel: +3534967584
	Fallon & Byrne	An epicurian's dream: deli counters with fine meats and cheeses, an eye-popping selection of foreign foods, a magnificent wine cellar in the basement with daily wine tastings, ready-made meals for... MORE	????	11-17 Exchequer Street Dublin 2 Tel: +35314721000 Link
	Frank's	The dining room of this small, awkwardly-shaped bar and restaurant is like Crawdaddy with cutlery. Not for the claustrophobic. The owners once managed Elephant and Castle, and it shows. You can have... MORE	????	The Malting Tower Grand Canal Quay Dublin 2 Tel: +35316625870
	French Paradox	The French eat four times more butter than Americans, 60% more cheese and nearly three times as much pork; yet they still manage to stay thin and live longer. This phenomenon is attributed -... MORE	???	53 Shelbourne Road Dublin 4 Tel: +35316604068 Link
	Gruel	I took my mother to Gruel. She wasn't impressed. This is no reflection on Gruel. It simply means that mother a) didn't get it and b) thought that she could do just as good. Could she? The... MORE	?	68a Dame Street Dublin 2 Tel: +3536707119
	Halo	The Morrison has always been slightly overshadowed by its neighbour to the south, the Clarence. Both are self-consciously billed as style icons, although neither quite bears comparison with, say, the... MORE	????	Lower Ormond Quay Dublin 1 Tel: +35318872400 Link
	Han Yang	A friend who went to the World Cup in South Korea told me that the Koreans are rather like the Irish - they can't play football, they like good fun and they drink too much. This may explain why... MORE	??	103 Parnell Street Dublin 1 Tel: +35318746144 Link
	Hanley at the Bar	As a caterer, Claire Hanley provides food that isn't mass-produced for weddings, parties and Bar Mitzvahs. Feeding "attractive lawyers" is what her restaurant, Hanley at the Bar, is all... MORE	???	The Distillery Building May Lane Dublin 1 Tel: +35318780104
	Harry's	Check out those washing machine drum light-fittings. This unusual diner has been home to international speed-dating events, and proprietor Derek Bennett obviously has his finger on the pulse -... MORE	??	21 Upper George's Street Dun Laoghaire County Dublin Tel: +35312808337
	Harvey Nichols	Eating in Harvey Nichols is way beyond cliché. The women who come here in their Saturday-night finest are just back, you understand, from Paris or Milan, and they don't really care if you... MORE	????	Dundrum Town Centre Sandyford Road Dublin 16 Tel: +35312910488
	Hemmingways	Hemmingways in Clontarf is not only a fish shop - make this mistake and you're missing out on a treat. Available to eat in or take away, the tapas here is as good as in any Barcelona bar. Fresh... MORE	???	2b Vernon Avenue Clontarf Dublin 3 Tel: +35318333338 Link
	Honest to Goodness	This tiny lunch and breakfast spot in the George's Street Arcade is worth celebrating for various reasons. The bread and cakes are made in store every day - foccacia and muffins line up in the... MORE	??	Market Arcade Georges Street Dublin 2 Tel: +35316337727 Link
	Il Posto	This mid-priced Italian is metaphorically (and literally?) the midpoint between the Unicorn and the Steps of Rome. We have often enjoyed long boozy dinners with colleagues in its clattering dining... MORE	????	10 St. Stephen's Green Dublin 2 Tel: +35316794769 Link
	Indie Spice	"I love big, busy restaurants," writes a reader of The Dubliner, "and they don't come much busier than this." Owner Tariq Salahuddin, who is originally from Bangladesh, has places... MORE	??	Burgundy House New Street Swords Tel: +35318077999 Link
	Itsa4	John McKenna on Itsa4: "how to make almost all the people happy almost all of the time." Mr Bridgestone is on the money. This remarkable newcomer is  one of our favourite restaurants... MORE	????	6a Sandymount Green Dublin 4 Tel: +35312194676
	Jaipur	When the culinary history of Dublin is written - at the moment that book would be rather too short - there will surely be room for Asheesh Dewan, an urbane young Indian who spots talented... MORE	???	41 South Great George's Street Dublin 2 Tel: +3531677 0999
	Johnnie Fox's	It is, I guess, a legend. At 209 years old, Johnnie Fox's may well be Ireland's highest/oldest/cheesiest pub. We like to send unwanted American cousins up for the night, in the hope that they won't... MORE	???	Glencullen Tel: +3531295 5647 Link
	Kingfisher	The Kingfisher takes home-grown vegetables and the freshest fish giving you fish and chips to beat Burdock's any day. Their full Irish breakfast is huge - the perfect hangover cure - and... MORE	??	166 Parnell Street Dublin 1 Tel: +3531872 8732 Link
	La Mere Zou	Stick to seafood at this second-tier city centre stalwart. Try, for instance, the black sole, or just go for a big bowl of mussels. We are rarely blown away by the food, the service often seems... MORE	????	22 St. Stephen's Green Dublin 2 Tel: +35316616669 Link
	Langkawi	Not much change to report, although we enjoyed Alex Hosey's answers to some standard research questions. The genial chef-proprietor claims that his 'gorgeous, sumptuous' cooking is why he has... MORE	????	46 Upper Baggot Street Dublin 2 Tel: +35316682760 Link
	L'Ecrivain	Derry Clarke is a fan of Graham Knuttel, and it is easy to see why. There's a disregard for convention at the heart of his work, together with discipline and no little talent. Knuttel's tapestries... MORE	?????	109a Lower Bagoot Street Dublin 2 Tel: +35316611919 Link
	L'Gueuleton	Never mind the pratfall name. L'Gueuleton is the best new opening of the decade. The tables are small and a bit rickety, but that is part of the charm. Try the black pudding and apple tart tartin or... MORE	???	1 Fade Street Dublin 2 Tel: +35316753708
	Michael's Food & Wine	A bit like sitting in someone's front room. Someone Italian. Or Irish. Or, to be accurate, someone Irish who spends a lot of time in Italy. In his wine shop cum deli, Michael Lowe has a few tables... MORE	???	57 Deerpark Road Mount Merrion County Dublin Tel: +35312780377
	Mint	Mint reminds me of the old days at Bangkok Café, that little haven of great Thai food and loveable squalor beside the squats and knocking shops of Parnell Street. It's more than just the size... MORE	?????	47 Ranelagh Village Dublin 6 Tel: +35314978655 Link
	Monty's Of Kathmaundu	The only Nepalese restaurant in the country is in an enviable position. As only a handful of Irish food critics have been to Nepal, and because it has no rivals, Monty's is, by default, the best of... MORE	???	28 Eustace Street Temple Bar Dublin 2 Tel: +35316704911 Link
	Nando's PERi PERi	Having thrilled taste buds across the globe for more than 20 years, the distinctive taste of Nando's PERi-PERi Afro-Portuguese flame-grilled chicken has opened its first restaurant in the Republic of... MORE	??	Dundrum Town Centre Dundrum Dublin 14 Tel: +353 1298 5889 Link
	Nosh	This is our kind of place on a Sunday. It's cosy and welcoming, the food is excellent and - unlike many places in Dalkey - the price is just about right. Order the buttermilk pancakes with grilled... MORE	??	111 Coliemore Road Dalkey County Dublin Tel: +35312840666 Link
	Nude	Bono's big brother is doing his bit. The pitch is simple enough: fast food for people who know what Gaia means. Cute customers - tall, thin versions of Madonna on her yoga buzz - sit at the... MORE	?	21 Suffolk Street Dublin 2 Tel: +3536725577 Link
	O'Connell's	John McKenna describes this hotel dining room as "the most insistently inventive restaurant format in town, thanks to Tom O’Connell's restless creativity." A little kind? Eating in a... MORE	???	Bewley's Hotel Merrion Road Dublin 4 Tel: +35316473304 Link
	Odessa	Odessa isn't just a restaurant: it's a lifestyle choice. Entertainment magnate Jay Bourke's acolytes shuffle around South William Street wearing sunglasses in the rain, playing with Blackberries and... MORE	???	13-14 Dame Court Dublin 2 Tel: +35316707634 Link
	Patrick Gilbaud	If you love good food, you really must eat - once, at least - in this Michelin two-star institution. It's the only place in town where diners sometimes don full evening attire (even Bono... MORE	?????	The Merrion Hotel 21 Merrion Street Upeer Dublin 2 Tel: +35316764192 Link
	Pearl	There is much to admire in this elegant basement restaurant, which young, energetic immigrants had the audacity to open right next door to Patrick Guilbaud. Now in its sixth year, Pearl is in its... MORE	????	20 Merrion Street Upper Dublin 2 Tel: +35316613572 Link
	Peploes	In the absence of the Horseshoe Bar - an absence that is about to be rectified - Barry Canny's stylish basement premises has become a venue of choice for long, merlot-soaked afternoons at the... MORE	?????	6 St. Stephen's Green Dublin 2 Tel: +35316763144 Link
	Port House	Just as a beer-swilling lout lurches into middle age, turning his attention to a more mature appreciation of wine, the people behind the Porterhouse Brewing Company have opened this tapas and wine... MORE	???	64 South William Street Dublin 2
	Purty Kitchen	This glorified bar is stuck somewhere in the no-man's-land between Dun Laoghaire and Monkstown; the décor is also in limbo, halfway between cheese and tasteful comfort; yet it remains a... MORE	?	3-5 Old Dun Laoghaire Road Monkstown County Dublin Tel: +35312843576 Link
	Queen Of Tarts	This sweet café opposite City Hall is just the place for tea, with the cutest cakes and homemade biscuits. Everything is freshly made each morning and arranged on the counter in Wanderly Wagon... MORE	?	4 Cork Hil Dame Street Dublin 2 Tel: +35316707499
	Radha Govinda's	Hare Krishnas, bidi-smokers, Village readers and pretty, scarved Muslim students eat in this deli-style restaurant. Tables are sparse and the décor is basic, with pictures of venerable... MORE	??	83 Middle Abbey Street Dublin 1 Link
	Rasam	Pat Kenny, Norma Smurfit - she loves the nalli gosht - and Jim Flavin are regulars. Indeed everyone loves this smart Indian above the Eagle House pub in Glasthule. That is partly due to the... MORE	???	18/19 Glasthule Road Dun Laoghaire County Dublin Tel: +353 1230 0600 Link
	Rhodes D7	The critics are divided about this glorified franchise for a celebrity chef who is often accused of spreading himself too thinly. Ross Golden Bannon raves about "the champ with giant chunks of... MORE	????	The Capel Building Mary's Abbey Dublin 7 Tel: +353 1804 4444 Link
	Roly's Bistro	Can it really be 15 years since John O'Sullivan, Roly Saul and Colin O'Daly opened this celebrated emblem of Tiger Ireland? Saul is long gone – his restaurant in Dun Laoghaire almost made the... MORE	????	7 Ballsbridge Terrace Dublin 4 Tel: +353 1668 2611 Link
	Saba	Paul Cadden ran Diep Le Shaker before opening this place in a room once occupied by the venerable Rajdoot Tandoori. The dining room, which has been opened up, now feels chic yet also more... MORE	????	26 Clarendon Street Dublin 2 Tel: +353 1679 2000
	Shanahan's On The Green	We have heard chefs complaining about this steakhouse. It is over-rated, they say, or too expensive. We disagree. Before we mount a defence, full disclosure: Shanahan's is an advertiser in The... MORE	?????	119 ST. Stephen's Green Dublin 2 Tel: +353 1407 0939 Link
	Siam Thai	Now call me a slave to convention, but spicy food and cold beer still does it for me every time. So the first thing I do is order a big bottle of the icy brew. Then I scan the menu, only reading... MORE	???	15 Andrew Street Dublin 2 Tel: +353 1677 3363
	Silk Road Café	Georgina Campbell, the esteemed hotel and restaurant critic, says Abraham Phelan "gives the lie to rip-off Ireland - he's been creating delicious Middle Eastern food at the Chester Beatty... MORE	??	Chester Beatty Library Dublin Castle Dublin 2 Tel: +353 1407 0770 Link
	Simon's Place	Diners: students, graphic designers, off-duty waiters and musicians hoping to catch their names on the gig posters that litter the walls. Smell: freshly-baked cinnamon buns, now mingling with... MORE	??	22 South Great George's Street Dublin 2 Tel: +353 1679 7821
	Soup Dragon	Warning signs that a restaurant is out to extract maximum profits from minimal grub: a cramped 'prime retail' setting, offensive muzak and the work of art-school undergrads on the walls. We... MORE	?	168 Capel Street Dublin 1 Tel: +3531 872 3277
	Stoop Your Head	Hold the front page. Stoop Your Head has new toilets. Apart from that, little change in Skerries, the smallest of Dublin's seaside villages. Glorified bar food is the reason why hundreds of Dubliners... MORE	??	21 Harbour Road Skerries County Dublin Tel: +353 1849 2085
	The 101 Talbot	The critics always rave about this modest bistro on a grungy stretch of Talbot Street. 101 is certainly, as some claim, a key address for Dubs who didn't have to leave town in the 1980s. However,... MORE	??	101 Talbot Street Dublin 1 Tel: +353 1 874 5011 Link
	The Chili Club	We have a bit of a soft spot for the Chili Club. The first Thai restaurant in the city is still up a dodgy lane, still tiny, still relatively cheap and still going strong. Indeed, not much change... MORE	????	1 Anne's Lane South Anne Street Dublin 2 Tel: +35316773721
	The Dylan	Bob Dylan? Or Dylan Bradshaw? The former, one assumes. Entering this chi-chi hotel, restaurant and bar - Dublin's answer to the Standard - is like opening a double page spread in... MORE	????	Eastmoreland Place Dublin 4 Tel: +35316603000 Link
	The Exchange	The Westin hotel celebrates its fifth birthday this year with a special tasting menu for €55, or €75 with matching wines. I was invited to a press dinner to celebrate this fact. I loved the... MORE	????	Westin Hotel College Green Dublin 2 Tel: +35316451000 Link
	The Four Seasons	Are the staff brainwashed? Don't look now but they seem to be hovering too... No actually, it's okay, we're at the Four Seasons and this is how they do things here. The world's most celebrated hotel... MORE	?????	Simmonscourt Road Ballsbridge Dublin 4 Tel: +35316654642 Link
	The Lobster Pot	Tommy Crean and his team of old-school waiters have been doing the silver service bit for more years than they care to remember (27) at this first-floor fish restaurant in Ballsbridge. The dining... MORE	?????	9 Ballsbridge Terrace Dublin 4 Tel: +353146680025 Link
	The Lord Edward	Nothing new to report here. Our oldest seafood restaurant still seems almost primeval, and that is part of its charm. To dine here, you have to schlep up two flights of stairs in a building that... MORE	????	23 Christchurch Place Dublin 8 Tel: +35314542420 Link
	The Mermaid Café	Ten years old - and still an exciting place to eat. We are not crazy about the location, a loud and dirty section of Dame Street, and the dining room can feel like a goldfish bowl, but the... MORE	????	69-70 Dame Street Dublin 2 Tel: +35316708236 Link
	The Merrion	When the seriously rich come to town, this handsome hotel is where they stay. If they like it, they buy an apartment on the top floor. Afternoon tea in the ground floor lounge is an elegant way to... MORE	?????	21 Upper Merrion Street Dublin 2 Tel: +35316030600 Link
	The Queens	The interior of this upscale pub is cosy, if a little, well, gloomy. Venture outside if possible. There, witness pub-grub as social commentary. Watch new-Dalkey builders, braying inanities to... MORE	??	12, Castle Street Dalkey Tel: +353 1 2854569 Link
	The Tea Room	There is a handsome Moroccan working here at the moment. He is an exceptional flirt, and we know women who return for the wink of his eye. Is the food so unexceptional? Are we so quickly reduced to... MORE	?????	The Clarence Hotel 6-8 Wellington Quay Dublin 2 Tel: +3531 407 0813 Link
	The Winding Stair	This bookshop café was once a lunchtime landmark with spark - they were serving goats' cheese while the rest of town was still on EasiSingles. Elaine Murphy has just revived a classic,... MORE	????	40 Lower Ormonde Quay Dublin 1 Tel: +353 18727320 Link
	Thornton's	In a good mood, Ireland's greatest chef admits that you would have to be crazy to set up a temple to Michelin cooking in a country where rich punters are happy to queue up for re-heated pasta. The... MORE	?????	The Fitzwilliam Hotel 128 St. Stephen's Green Dublin 2 Tel: +353 1478 7008 Link
	Tonic Bar	Meet the collars-up crowd (and tangerine totty) at this self-styled gastro bar. Tiger cubs love the uncomplicated menu, where nothing is written in French and the flavours bring the customers back to... MORE	??	5 Temple Road Blackrock Co. Dublin Tel: +353 1 288 7671 Link
	Town Bar And Grill	Ronan Ryan, a 36 year old bachelor from Tipperary, is Dublin's most urbane host. He treats customers to first-rate gossip about the rich and famous. Now two years old, his basement restaurant on... MORE	????	21 Kildare Street Dublin 2 Tel: +353 1662 4800 Link
	Trocadero Restaurant	Like a trip to your madam of a granny's, the Troc is comfortable in an old-fashioned, slightly tarty way. Manager Robert Doggett instantly makes everyone feel at home, whether you're starring on the... MORE	????	3 St Andrew St Dublin 2 Tel: +353 1 677 5545
	Uki Yo Restaurant	Ukiyo has a calm, Zen-like feel, with white paper screens and antique Japanese scrolls. A combination of Japanese and Korean food is served – try the tuna carpaccio with rocket salad and wasabi... MORE	???	7-9 Exchequer Street Dublin 2 Tel: +353 1 633 4071 Link
	Unicorn	If you do not believe that restaurants have usurped the role once played by the theatre, you obviously haven't been to the Unicorn. Empty, Dublin's most stylish dining room seems rather a sad place.... MORE	????	21B Merrion Court Merrion Row Dublin 2 Tel: +35316624757 Link
	Venu	Charles son-of-Patrick Guilbaud opened this bistro-in-a-basement amidst much buzz in 2006. We can't warm to the vast subterranean dining room. And the lighting is just not right. Shame, as so much... MORE	????	Anne's Lane Dublin 2 Tel: +35316706755 Link
	Vermilion	It can now be acknowledged that this popular Indian above a pub in Terenure was a trailblazer. It provoked a rash of clean, modern, slightly samey Indian-fusion restaurants, each serving an... MORE	????	94-96 Terenure Road Dublin 6W Tel: +35314991400 Link
	Wagamama	You can't book a table, but you never have to wait long for a seat in this 'non-destinational eating station' (What are they on about?). The Wagamama motto is 'positive eating and positive living.'... MORE	???	Unit 4b South King Street Dublin 2 Tel: +35314782152 Link