A very good Thai restaurant in the heart of Drumcondra. It can get very crowded, so it's best to go very early for lunch or get takeaway. In my opinion, the SpiceBag is the best in Dublin. The traditional Thai dishes are incredibly delicious and lovingly prepared. The service is always friendly and attentive. Prices are absolutely reasonable for Dublin.
Julius
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17 October 2026
10.0
Have been to this restaurant back to back with the fiance. Day one I had the Red Curry with Added Noodles, and she had Drunken Noodles. Day two I had Tom Yum soup with Added Noodles, she had Yellow Curry Noodles, and we shared a platter of the Thai chili wings appetizer.
All of our food tasted great, even if they were not especially spicy, even level 3 was not very spicy to me - they did provide an assortment of fresh chilis, chili powder, and dried peppers to up the spice of your dishes and I appreciated that (I would've loved chili oil being offered, but I digress). The curries were flavorful, the wings were not overly sweet like some Thai chili wings often are, and the tom yum soup was a stand out dish.
However, I have some gripes. Both days the servers offered pork as a choice of protein, and both days it turned out that there was no pork available. We went for the early dinner service, at or soon after 5. Less a service issue and more a management issue and a communication issue between front of house and kitchen staff. Order more pork, or tell staff not to offer it.
My other gripe is that the menu seems to be outdated. The price for the noodle add on for the Tom Yum was 1.95 euros, but was in actuality 3.5 euros. Also, the price for the noodle add on for the Red Curry was listed as 1.5 euros, and was again in actuality 3.5 euros. To add insult to injury, the added noodles are cheap chow mein-like egg fried noodles, which in my opinion shouldn't even be in Thai food to begin with.
That ties into my last gripe. The place has a weird hang up about what dishes you can or cannot add rice noodles to. When I ordered red curry and Added Noodles, I had assumed this would be rice noodles, only to get the egg fried noodles. Lesson learned, the next day I ordered my Tom Yum Soup with the Added Noodles and specifically requested rice noodles. There was some back and forth, and eventually the waitress (a very nice lady named Nathalia, who gets 5 out of 5 for service from me) told me that the kitchen staff couldn't give me rice noodles with my Tom Yum soup, it had to be the egg fried noodles.
For added context, the San Sab Noodle Soup, which I was told is a different dish from Tom Yum Soup, is the exact same price as the Tom Yum soup with Added Noodles, and the San Sab noodle soup has, wouldn't you know it, rice noodles. One dish can only be served with egg fried noodles, the other can only be served with rice noodles. That made zero sense to me. Upon reflection, the Tom Yum Soup only has the option to add the egg fried noodles, and not even rice, like I would also expect elsewhere at any other Thai restaurant. And if I had asked, would I have had to pay 3.5 euros for Jasmine white rice?
Overall, the food is good, and I can see why it's successful and trendy, but it has some weird quirks which kind of throw me off. Give me chili oil, rice noodles, and rice over the spice bags any day.
Khafani
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11 September 2026
6.0
Great food, so so tasty and we sampled plenty of it; Satay Skewers, Duck Rolls, Duck Pancakes, Pad Med Mamuang & a Massaman curry. Everything was delicious and was washed down with draft Peroni and a nice Cab vino. Staff were super friendly and engaging. We were first into the restaurant, but it didn't take long to get busy, and I am not surprised considering the quality of the food. Highly recommended!
Derek Dunne
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07 August 2026
10.0