Gaffney's Pub in Dublin

21/06/2025: Me and my partner are visiting Ireland and stayed at the Maldron Hotel, we decided to try out Pandini's for lunch on our last day and I wish we came sooner! Great service, friendly staff and good wait time for the food even though it was busy on a Saturday lunch time. If you're around the area I would highly recommend the food. I had the carbonara and my partner had the lasagne and the portion sizes were great too. Way better than what you get in your restaurants in the UK.

16/06/2025: We visited this restaurant for father's day and I will be honest it's thin on the plus points. We arrived a few minutes before our appointment and the outside can be a bit deceiving as you can't see inside it doesn't look busy. But when we went inside there was a decent crowd there for the time of day so it created a good ambience. We walked up to the reception point but for some reason we were left standing there for several minutes even though there was 4staff members standing on the other side. No one even acknowledged our presence it was a very odd exchange. Eventually we were shown to our table but the table service was very slow throughout. No one even asked us what drinks we wanted I had to ask for the round. Some glasses we had to change as there was lipstick marks still on the glasses. We thought the food was just OK. We ordered different starters and mains. The pesto pasta was very overpowering in taste and really wet compared to the spaghetti bolognese that was dry. The chip portion we ordered was far too greasy.