Very popular with brunching shoppers (there are always a few European dishes on the conveyor belt), as well as with Dublin's sushi lovers, Aya is a slick, minimalist Japanese...

The owners of this fashionable café have a good pedigree: restaurants and fashion have featured strongly in their lives. They drive fast cars, have pretty blondes by their...

A sassy metropolitan bistro with a particularly good line in seafood, Bleu serves high-quality casual food with a twist. Its fans rave about the fare but moan about how crowded...

With its dramatic vaulted ceiling, its discreet, secluded vibe and its excellent wines, the Cellar certainly lives up to its name. It's an immaculate operation serving casual...

This cosy old-timer is always busy. Try to book the snug table on the left as you walk in (No.21) - it's one of the nicest spots in town. Staff are lovely enough to make you...

Basement restaurants have to work a lot harder than their ground-floor colleagues - they need to lure their punters with a guarantee of good food, rather than just the (all too...

Full of politicos and men in suits, this is one of the best places for a boozy lunch (and somewhere you could easily end up buying dinner at too - time seems to fly here…). The...

Cosy and smart, with brick walls, oversized armchairs and little nooks and crannies to sink into, Ely boasts a vast wine list that is possibly the best in the country....

Likely as not, your mouth will already be watering when you reach the restaurant of this foodie institution (you enter the building via the superb deli on the ground floor)....

With its smart aquamarine frontage and chic interior of gold patterned wallpaper, swag curtains, red-brick walls and (of course) rows of wine bottles, Hugo's is a welcome...

An intimate, cosy and warm basement restaurant, Il Posto serves decent Italian grub. Lunch can be a bit disappointing (atmosphere-wise), except on a busy Friday, but dinner...

With branches on all three sides of the city, Jaipur is in danger of becoming a chain rather than a top-class Indian, for which it has always been liked. Service is extremely...

Superb, unpretentious brasserie cooking has earned this charming little restaurant a good reputation over the years, and they've had the sense to not go tinkering with a...

With its rather lovely blue-painted storefront facade and sweet little Sycamore Street running down one side of it, the Mermaid is a pretty prospect from the outside. And the...