The best restaurantsof italian

06/11/2025: Great food. Friendly helpful staff. Nice ambience.

03/11/2025: Batonis restaurant is our favourite place. We go there regularly. The foos is excellent and freshly made. Place is clean and service very professional. We have been to the best rated restaurant in Kinsale and yet our Batonis is much better:). We dine out only at Batonis.

11/11/2025: Food was excellent, service was great. Pizza was delicious.

05/11/2025: This was the only restaurant we could get into late at night without a reservation in Dingle the night we were there. I ordered an antipasta dish as an appetizer which was very minimal and not worth the money (I could do better with grocery store items with a better display). For my main course, I ordered the meat & cheese tortellini, which was edible but nothing fancy or worth the 17.50 euro spent. There's much better restaurants to explore in the area.

25/11/2025: Food was good & tasty. Starters of mushrooms was 4 halves of medium/small mushroom - Could be slightly bigger please. Surf & turf was solid, steak slightly medium as opposed to requested m/rare. Tiramisu tasty. Would recommend as local. Not expensive but not cheap either.

31/10/2025: Peaceful atmosphere, lovely welcome. Let's talk about the rib eye, perfectly cooked, full of flavour, succulent, accompaniment of veg and mash were perfectly cooked al-dente (veg) and creamy(mash) pepper corn sauce was up to the same standard, I eat out probably twice a month and this is the best restaurant meal I have eaten this year. Bravo

02/11/2025: Great pizzas. I had the Caprino with Spinach, Carmelized onions and Goat Cheese. Yum!

10/06/2025: Great spot for good pasta and pizza and also very reasonably priced. Great value as the pizzas are large and the pasta is a large portion. Large pour in the glass of wine which was nice to see. Very friendly staff. Will go again.

08/12/2025: The first place (in a loonnngggg time, if ever before) that the person who met us at the door (& even helped clear off the table we got to sit at) - took our order brought us our food, brought us our bill AND took payment for a great Dinner..., 'twould be great if more places would be THIS attentive to their customers..., it just felt more homely/personal. Also, a big Thank You to everyones "Uncle" Monto, the proprietor.

20/10/2025: We felt very comfortable there, and the food was very good and plentiful. We highly recommend it.

28/11/2025: Super service delicious 😋 flavours, should not but will be back!

09/11/2025: My son favourite ice cream is bumble gum

31/10/2025: I came in to have just a hot chocolate with a friend and leave with a mega smile on my face! An excellent service, the team composed of three Brazilians of an excellent service... the girl at the reception very friendly and polite... I highly recommend the place!

26/10/2025: Food arrived warm not hot. Food was packed good but the meals were an MASSIVE let down!! Everything was either burnt or undercooked and soggy with no real taste of anything. Nothing was edible. Will not be eating here again.

02/12/2025: Getting there via the dart train service is very easy. It is a very short walk from the Sandycove station to the restaurant. The building is old world charming, the staff members were very friendly and helpful. The menu had a great selection to choose from, the wine selection was also surprisingly nice. We enjoyed our meals and most of us selected the salmon - it was very nice. I did ask for mash instead of potato chips but when I saw the potato chips on someone else's plate I regretted the request! Their potato chips were very nicely cooked - crispy on the edges and soft inside. Just perfect. There is parking across the street but due to the one-way access road changes in Dun Laoghaire you can only access that if you are driving south from Dun Laoghaire - not driving up from for example Sandycove. I also have to mention that if you get the table next to the window you have a great ocean view and if the weather behaves, you can also get a clear view of Howth.

12/11/2025: It is always a pleasure to dine here. Polite and welcoming staff, fresh food, great for special occasions. Will be coming back soon

27/11/2025: Delicious food and fast service. We chose the three-course menu with a starter, main course, and dessert. Excellent value for money, and complimentary water was included.

22/11/2025: Great place for a bite to eat when in town. Good food at a reasonable price and very reliable quality. Have been there many times and never been disappointed.

06/12/2025: I loved the pizza and would have said it was hands down my favourite place in cork. But it has gone so disappointed and bad, the pizza was awful, it was literally like getting a goodfellas from Tesco, shame really and would never go back

22/11/2025: Cold pizza just arrived from delivery

30/08/2025: Food is amazing have tryed nearly everything always here with the kids and husband.. Staff are so nice and friendly.

20/07/2025: The first red flag for us was there was only person on service and waited a long time to make our order . That said he was a good guy just over run. As to the food the meat balls for starter were over cooked yet sauce was nice . The mains were dreadful and like something you would give to your dog with the leftovers from yesterdays dinner . Roast potatoes reheated and you would need a chainsaw to cut through them . Chicken over cooked and roast parnips and carrots were limp and soggy and on a bed of tasteless mash. Gravy tasted like bad wine. Left without having the deserts as we didnt have high hopes after was we were already served.

09/12/2025: Highly recommend! Excellent pizza and pasta, truly Italian!

09/12/2025: Delicious Italian food and really friendly staff. Both pasta and pizza were great, especially the tomato sauce. We'll come back.

30/11/2025: Maybe one of the worst italian food experiences I ever had. I went for classical Sicilian dish - Pasta Alla Norma. And it was more than disappointing. Use of garlic and strong garlic taste is key in this dish, I am afraid I did not taste any of it at this place. Also I as I noticed egg plants were not deep fried before adding the to the sauce, and there were no any fried onces on the top either. My friend’s lasanga was as miserable as my pasta dish. Staff were indifferent and bit rude, I assume that is how they wanted to create Italian kinda vibes there. Maybe good idea would be starting with the food’s taste though.

22/11/2025: Great food and experience overall! Just the smoothie, is actually more of a sundae/iced smoothie.

29/11/2025: We live locally in the area and we tried this restaurant for the first time yesterday. All three of us ordered vegan dishes. These were the best pasta dishes we have ever eaten. I ordered the beetroot pesto which was delicious. Even the vegan cheeses they used were very good. It was so nice to see so many vegan options available. We will definitely go there again.

29/11/2025: Only ate at the restaurant, it's soooo good. Highly recommend. I think this is my fourth time here, gonna keep coming back.

09/11/2025: Had a great experienced with that team highly appreciate their efforts must try

05/11/2025: Visited this local restaurant for a special occasion but it was a disappointing experience for our party. One of our servers, to perhaps prove her apathy, was chewing gum. The restaurant was not overly busy so there was no pressure on the staff but at one point she slammed a bottle of water on the table so hard that one of us jumped. It did not register with her at all. In relation to the food there were a few issues but the main one was with the fish (hake), listed as lightly breaded. Instead, it was mostly batter with very little fish and it cost almost €30! If we had wanted Donegal Catch we could have gone to Tesco. Overall our group felt like The Temple Grill really just couldn't care less.