restaurants dublin

This coffee shop, sanck bar with a piglet motif throughout, serves home-made cakes and pastries. Specialities are carrot cake and brown bread....

Welcome to the Susie and frankie show. A delightful story of fortysomething amorous abandon (full story posted outside restaurant) and a real desire for decent bagels led to its opening. It is the recreation of the New York deli in Dublin's poshest centre with full American breakfast pancakes with maple syrup, eggs benedict and bagels. The menu is an amusement in itself, written as it is in word play - try 'the spice who loved me' or 'whistle a happy tuna' and decide for yourself if you are pa...

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....

The opening of their Balti House downstairs in the Shalimar offers another echo of the Pakistani Punjab cusine in which the restaurant specialises.

Balti, hailing from Balistan in northern Pakistan, allows the restaurant to offer the simple Balti dishes - chicken, seafood, keema, vegetable kofta, cooked, served and eaten from a karahi - alongside the more formal food of the restaurant - tandoori specialities, a variety of Punjabi dishes, a range of biryanis....

Smithfield Village is home to Ireland’s most unexpected cultural crossroads, Kelly and Ping, where authentic Asian cuisine is served in a contemporary Irish setting. Open kitchen, flaming woks and even fish tanks contribute to the colourful and unique atmosphere in Kelly and Ping.

The restaurant has its own house cocktails which include creations such as "Ping a Colada" and "Buddhas Belly" together with an extensive range of Irish and Asian beers and wines....