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Two Pups
4.6(1,865 reviews)
A small room on Francis Street in the Liberties. Coffee and breakfast early, wine and a few plates as the day turns.
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Breakfast
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Bread 41
4.5(3,662 reviews)Every day 07:00 – 15:00
An organic bakery on Pearse Street with its own mill, open since 2018, making long-fermented sourdough from nothing but flour, water and salt.
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SLICE
4.6(1,140 reviews)
Homey nook offering thoughtfully sourced cafe fare, craft beer & select wine, plus slices of cake.
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Brother Hubbard (North)
4.3(4,150 reviews)
Cool and cosy independent cafe turning out high-end home baking, plus seasonal lunches and coffee.
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MEET ME IN THE MORNING
4.8(345 reviews)
A small two-floor café just off Camden Street. Breakfast and lunch are written separately, and at the weekend the two become one.
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The Woollen Mills
4.2(2,520 reviews)
Relaxed restaurant, bar and deli with its own bakery in historic, riverside mill with roof terrace.
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Featherblade Steak Restaurant
4.6(2,506 reviews)
A one-dish room on Dawson Street. The single permanent item is the featherblade, cut from the shoulder of Irish grass-fed cattle.
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The Wine Cellar at Fallon & Byrne
4.5(641 reviews)
In the basement of the food hall on Exchequer Street. The walls are lined with bottles, and the plates are chosen to follow the wine.
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Kingfisher
4.2(1,051 reviews)
It opened in 1976 as a fish and chip shop and is still run by the same family. Irish breakfast served all day, and fresh Irish fish alongside it.
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Bewley's Grafton Street
4.3(6,089 reviews)
Grand cafe with filled with mahogany and stained glass, offering cakes, sandwiches, pasta and more.
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Fish Shop
4.6(1,792 reviews)
A small room on Benburb Street in Smithfield since 2015. The day's catch is fried in beer batter, and the wine list is taken seriously.
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Bunsen
4.5(1,377 reviews)AmericanFast Food
The menu on Wexford Street is short: burgers and hand-cut chips. The beef is Aberdeen Angus from FX Buckley, minced fresh every morning.
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Lotts & Co.
4.6(986 reviews)Every day 08:00 – 21:00
A Ringsend shop that puts a butcher, a deli and a bakery under one roof. The coffee counter is at the front and the kitchen works behind it.
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Loose Canon Cheese and Wine
4.4(570 reviews)
A cheese and wine shop on Drury Street. What is cut at the counter comes back later as a toastie, with natural wine beside it.
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Umi Falafel
4.5(1,049 reviews)LebaneseFast Food
A Lebanese counter on Dame Street. The falafel is fried after you order and the wrap is rolled while you wait.
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Liath Restaurant
4.8(218 reviews)
Inside Blackrock Market, a room with only a few tables. Damien Grey serves one tasting menu an evening.
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Bastible
4.6(685 reviews)
Led by chef Killian Walsh, this Michelin-starred restaurant serves seasonal tasting menus based on Irish ingredients from an open kitchen.
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Uno Mas
4.8(819 reviews)
Spanish plates on Aungier Street. A short menu written to be shared, and a wine list drawn from the Iberian peninsula.
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Pichet
4.4(1,611 reviews)FrenchIrish
A bistro on the street beside Trinity College. Irish produce cooked with French technique, in a long room of blue chairs.
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Mister S
4.8(644 reviews)IrishBarbecue
On Camden Street, a restaurant where everything meets fire. Meat, vegetables and even dessert over charcoal, the grill in the middle of the room.
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The Fumbally
4.6(2,060 reviews)
Community cafe serving an eclectic menu of health conscious dishes and locally roasted coffee.
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Lucky Tortoise Temple Bar - Restaurant in Dublin
4.5(449 reviews)
Dim sum in Temple Bar, ordered not plate by plate but as a fixed price run of dishes that keeps arriving at the table.
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Kimchi Hophouse
4.4(2,726 reviews)
Unfussy dining room for Korean and Japanese dishes with a large East Asian mural on the terrace.
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Scéal Bakery
4.7(322 reviews)Every day 08:00 – 16:00
A bakery by the harbour at Greystones. Sourdough and pastries come out in the morning, and when they are gone the day is done.
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Variety Jones
4.7(611 reviews)
A long, narrow room on Thomas Street. An open fire sits at the heart of the kitchen, and the menu arrives as one run of courses.
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Glovers Alley
4.7(348 reviews)FrenchIrish
A dining room on the first floor of the Fitzwilliam Hotel, its windows over St Stephen's Green, working to menus written by the chef Adam Nevin.
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Restaurant Patrick Guilbaud
4.5(1,437 reviews)FrenchEuropean
In a Georgian house on Merrion Street, open since 1981. French cooking with Irish produce, and Irish painting on the walls.
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National Gallery of Ireland
4.7(18,557 reviews)
On Merrion Square, free to enter. European painting, and a whole wing given over to Jack B. Yeats and the Irish painters.
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EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum
4.6(11,743 reviews)
The museum of Irish emigration, in the stone vaults of a customs warehouse built in 1820. Twenty galleries follow the Irish who left, and what they did next.
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IMMA. Irish Museum of Modern Art
4.3(5,278 reviews)
The Royal Hospital Kilmainham was built in 1684 for retired soldiers, modelled on Les Invalides in Paris. Since 1991 it has been Ireland's museum of modern art.
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Kilmainham Gaol
4.7(3,193 reviews)Every day 10:30 – 17:15
Opened in 1796 as Dublin's county gaol and closed in 1924. The leaders of the 1916 Rising were held here, and fourteen of them were shot in the stone yard.
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14 Henrietta Street
4.9(2,052 reviews)
Set in a Georgian townhouse built in the 1740s, this Dublin museum traces its transformation from elegant home to crowded tenement.
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Phoenix Park
4.7(42,160 reviews)Every day 00:00 – 00:00
One of the largest city parks in Europe. Herds of wild fallow deer graze the open grass, and the zoo and the president's house sit inside it.
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St Stephen's Green
4.7(33,716 reviews)
A Victorian garden in the middle of the city. The Guinness family opened it to Dublin in 1880, and the lake, waterfall and bandstand remain.
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National Botanic Gardens
4.8(18,791 reviews)
A botanic garden at Glasnevin, free to enter. Richard Turner's curved glasshouses of iron and glass stand in the middle of the arboretum.
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Iveagh Gardens
4.7(4,784 reviews)
Hidden behind Harcourt Street. Ninian Niven laid it out in 1865: a yew maze, a rosarium, rustic grottoes, and a small cascade running through it.
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Irish National War Memorial Gardens
4.8(2,638 reviews)Every day 00:00 – 00:00
Elegant, Lutyens-designed gardens dedicated to the 49,400 Irish soldiers who died during WWI.
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The Long Hall
4.6(4,419 reviews)
A Victorian pub on George's Street. The carved mahogany partition, the chandeliers and the mirrors have been in place since the 1800s.
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The Blind Pig Speakeasy
4.5(1,269 reviews)ItalianBar
A basement on Suffolk Street that gives nothing away from the street. Cocktails and Italian plates, in a dim and narrow room.
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1/5
Vintage Cocktail Club
4.3(1,322 reviews)AmericanBar
An unmarked door on Crown Alley in Temple Bar. You press the buzzer, and a room out of the 1920s opens upstairs.
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John Kavanagh - The Gravediggers
4.6(965 reviews)IrishPub
Opened in 1833 against the wall of Glasnevin Cemetery, and named for the gravediggers who came in after their shift. No music inside, and no television.
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The Palace Bar
4.6(4,553 reviews)
Victorian bar with stained glass skylight and timeless ambiance for hosting Irish music sessions.
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Button Factory
4.3(2,567 reviews)
Intimate, buzzing live music and clubbing venue staging innovative bands and DJ sets.
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Copper Face Jacks
3.6(3,033 reviews)
Legendary club with state-of-the-art lighting and a decidedly upbeat (even cheesy) playlist.
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Wigwam
4.2(2,352 reviews)
Hip live music venue for DJs, house and techno acts, with a cool cafe/bar turning out cocktails.
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