restaurants dublin

One of the more confident, assured, funky places to open in the city in recent years. Bucci's roll-call of pasta and pizzas is well executed, another fashionable variation on that gra-bag modern style of food that has little time for authenticity, but is rather good at delivering food with savour....

The Eastern has mushroomed into an empire of restaurants now, with a branch in Cork city as well as the trio of Dublin restaurants. The vision of the owners is one of comfortable surroundings, and comfortable, comfortingly rich food which can please almost everyone, so an evening here mixes the modus of the western restaurant with the food of the east in an easy-going embrace....

They cook good, punchy, soulful food in Canaletto's, and it has considerable greater imagination than many other Dublin eateries. Lunchtime sees speedy counter service - good sandwiches and bakes, lively salads - which transforms into calmer evening service - pasta with chillies or maybe pesto, lasagne, spicy chicken dishes....

A coffee shop with restaurant upstairs which takes its name from the clock centrepiece within this shopping complex. The clock chimes every 15 minutes which to some may be attractive, to others annoying. The food is what you would expect in an eating place of this type. The speciality is banoffi and if you have never tried this delicious banana and toffee pudding, you're in for a treat....