The best restaurants

02/09/2025: Best oat flat white in Ireland. And the food was lovely too.

22/08/2025: What a wonderful café and meetingplace in a former chocolate and jam factory. Delicious breakfast and meals and nice coffee or tea.

19/07/2025: Four of us went there for dinner. It was a Thursday evening. It was a truly delightful experience. The waitress was welcoming, clarified any doubts we had in relation to the menu, explained dishes, talked about the ingredients,... And all that with kindness, patience and a smile. We all agreed that the food not only looked amazing (beautifully presented), it was delicious!!! Lately, I have experienced that, although some restaurants may have nice food, you barely get to enjoy it or enjoy the company of the person you're with. Once you sit down, the clock starts ticking and when time is over you're presented with the bill. Wine is overpriced and often served incorrectly (too warm or filling the glasses too fast in order to get you to buy another bottle). Thankfully, none of that happened here!!! I enjoyed being out with my friends, trying delicious dishes new to us. Having a relaxed dinner and catching up without being interrupted or rushed out. I will certainly go back and I'd recommend it for the quality of the food and the service!

14/07/2025: Really good Chinese food. Get the fish soup or the beef ho fun.

27/08/2025: Enjoyed a lovely dinner. Staff was friendly and dealt with a food allergy no issue at all. Good food! Pretty quiet and was not crowded when we were there.

04/08/2025: That was our second time visiting with kids and again we weren’t disappointed. Perfect food service and atmosphere well recommended

14/09/2025: Excellent fish and chips. Great atmosphere, loads of locals here and football on the tele.

11/09/2025: Could not get anyone to come for our order. Also the locals at the one table with people were cussing so much we left.

30/10/2025: Great atmosphere, there's a pool table some nights and music on others. Friendly staff

23/09/2025: Not a spot for a young or older single lady to go into for a drink. Beware..

11/09/2025: The location was perfect, and the breakfast was excellent and served at your table. The rooms were a bit dated and lacked air conditioning. Unfortunately, the price wasn't in line with the room rate.

10/09/2025: Small, friendly, perfectly centrally located place from which to explore.

26/09/2025: Very expensive, slow, casual and indifferent service.

22/09/2025: Fantastic Bread and cheese options... pricey but gorgeous, lovely spacious store, plenty going on and lots of variety to enjoy for all ages.

25/09/2025: Lovely Patisserie with an arrangement of tasty goods! I enjoyed a blueberry scone. Very delicious!

06/09/2025: I never review anything normally. I have to speak out about the atrocity of a "breakfast roll" and coffe I paid over 15 euro for. I left with the takeaway bag and when I was back on the road I opened it. Firstly, it was not even a roll. It was a horror show sandwich. Two slices of soft, floppy, thin, unbuttered sourdough flanked an absolute mess of barely cooked meat. The bottom layer was a thick battery of cut in half wet soggy flavourless sausages who's only well cooked part were the peeling casings, which slithered off, leaving behind joyness luke warm meat fingers. There were half inch thick puddings the size of the palm of your hand, only cooked on one side. Also deeply without taste. The gooey meat texture sticking to your mouth, offering only sadness. The unsalted egg was sad but it was cooked ok. I was hoping the rashers, of which there were too many, would offer a salty seasoned bite to the rest of the blank meat pudge, but they too were just warm wet plain and fatty. The combination of it all smelled faintly like a wet draining board. It was repulsive. I am not a picky eater. I love a cheap breakfast roll from a petrol station, a gourmet one from a specialist deli, and everything in between. This food was dirt. Also the coffee was completely stale and under extracted, tasted like the water ran straight past the puck. Probably for good reason. Service was confusing. I placed my order for a breakfast roll and was ignored completely from that point on by the person I ordered it from, who didn't ask about butter / sauces and who said yes, they do rolls (a lie). Someone else came and took my coffee order and payment. He was alright. Everyone was standing around confused as to where the q was, who was next, where to get service etc.

07/09/2025: Nice place Nice Food Service and Atmosphere

31/07/2025: It is a lovely place to have a meal 😋

12/11/2025: I have dined here on several occasions recently. The service is very good. Staff are friendly and helpful. It is a large bar and restaurant with an open area out back. I also think there is some accommodation here too. The premises is very clean and the layout is ideal. Location wise it is perfectly situated near McDonagh junction railway station and shopping centre and also not too far from the city centre, 5 min walk. The food is very tasty, servings are good and big. Like everywhere else, prices have gone up however the quality of food makes up for that. I will definitely return again for the fish and chips, it was very good.

25/10/2025: Staff are so unwelcoming and ignorant. Service is slow and staff just have no manners and are so rude. Will not be back

28/09/2025: Our party of 9 had a table booked for main course only tonight. Service was quick, friendly and efficient. The menu had a great range and everyone found something interesting to order. Upstairs a live jazz band was playing which added to the atmosphere, but didn’t overwhelm the conversation at our table. When the food arrived it got a unanimous thumbs up. Throughout the meal our server Bianca regularly checked up on us to make sure all was well and that the drinks were kept topped up as required. A few of us had desserts or tea/coffee afterwards to round off our meals. I highly recommend this gem of a restaurant which has been a part of Dun Laoghaire for as long as I can remember.

25/09/2025: Delicious food with nice jazz music

05/10/2025: Poor experience. Butter chicken had two tiny lumps of chicken in it. Ordered fries but never got them. Waited to order dessert but gave up and paid the overpriced bill instead. Wouldn't go again.

17/08/2025: The fish and chips is 19€ on the menu, but suddenly turned 22€ on the bill. When I pointed it to the waiter, he said "we haven't updated the menu, or maybe it's another kind of fish (?!)" Or maybe we were just treated like fools. And just illegal practice...

25/06/2025: Never in my 52 years on this planet have I ever experienced a genuine traditional Irish pub with fabulous musician for a trad session on Tuesday night. From the owner to the whiskey drinking bar man and musicians. Love you all. Had the time of my life. Thanks Sarah for the lift home... Gerard & Jenny.

24/03/2025: Great pub. Dog friendly. Good point. Great staff

19/09/2025: Didn't stay overnight, hence my blank comment on rooms. Convenient and friendly and excellent quality food. Only complaint was no salmon in the net🐳

06/09/2025: Visited today for dinner had the Cod&Chips. Absolutely delecious. Nice large portion off fish,fresh tarture sauce, mushy peas, and amazing crunchy salad. The only minus was the chips. They were french fries and skimpy and made the dish look small. I would rather eat home cut chips (that bit larger and more appeasing on the plate). But no complaints on taste. I had the cheesecake desert, 10 out off 10 delightful. Overall the food was 5 star and the staff friendly, well presented, and professional. Lovely relaxed atmosphere bright airy and clean. Overall 10 out off 10 for me. I will be back.