La ruelle in Dublin

We went for our 1 year marriage anniversary and welcomed with a delicious sparkling wine and wishes by the manager. The place is very cozy and well organized, and a wonderful service was provided by the team. The food was very good and for a good price. Excellent place to go, we will return in the future. We had an excellent experience!

A hidden gem! Delicious, well presented food with great service. Highly recommended!!

Went there again, really enjoyed it. Their wine excellent, served in proper wine glasses. Friendly staff. Good experience. Very good wine selection. Food excellent, french onion soup, lovely steak, good friendly attentive service, very enjoyable, 10\10!

On the positive side staff are lovely here. The location is also promising, tucked away off Dawson Street. The food is ok - so stop reading here if that’s all you want. It’s disappointing however (ok at best), particularly if you were going here hoping for a French restaurant. There’s a variety of starters, also labelled ‘tapas’, and the menu starts unpromisingly with garlic bread and lists patatas bravas too. Scallops were ok. Pâté tasted pretty industrial. Various other dishes are on offer, many French, but it feels like it may have gone so far in catering for Irish tastes that any sense of this being a truly French restaurant is lost. Tartiflette was ok. Side salad was really not nice. Apart from a creme brûlée they’d pretty much given up on French food by the time the menu got to dessert. The decor is not great, not the loud music. This could be a great place, so time for a revamp starting with the menu, which has too much on it.

I've been wanting to go to this restaurant for years and it never felt the right time. Finally it did and I'm incredibly pleased that moment has arrived! The restaurant remains a bit hidden, in a small alley (Ruelle) that starts from one of the busiest streets in Dublin when it comes to nightlife. The menu has some Spanish influences, starting from the fact that most dishes can be ordered as starters/taps. Differently from what I had planned when leaving home, we ended up doing a dinner of tapas. Absolutely loved the tartiflette, incredibly tasty. The last time I had it was 10 years ago in Savoy. This one was at least as good as I remembered! The gambas were probably the highlight of the dinner for us. Scallops were also very good and the ratatouille surprisingly tasty. The figs wrapped in ham were interesting but the fact that they were cold didn't match too well the rest of what we ordered, at least for my taste. The bread & butter pudding was very good while I found the profiterols quite tasteless. I loved that they had a good choice of sweet wines!! Staff incredibly kind & helpful helped making the dinner a special one 👌