Best Tasting Menus in Dublin

allta

Ranked #2 in The Sunday Times Ireland's 100 Best Restaurants for 2025 and holding a Michelin Plate, allta occupies a spacious dockside building at Grand Canal Dock after years circulating Dublin's festival and pop-up circuit. The kitchen draws on Irish coastal sourcing, native blue lobster, day-boat sole, served across a dual-format space that pairs an industrial cocktail bar with a counter-facing open kitchen dining room.

Amai by Viktor

Amai by Viktor gives Dublin a focused Brazilian-Irish tasting-menu address rather than another familiar European dining room. The draw is the friction between Irish produce and South American flavour logic, framed by a first-floor room that begins with a doorbell and moves into a compact, foliage-lined dining space shaped by Chef Viktor Silva’s Brazilian roots.

Ananda

Deep wine list

A Michelin Plate-recognised Indian restaurant in Dundrum's Cinema Building, Ananda offers accomplished regional cooking and attentive service at the €€ price point. The 'Railway Journey' tasting menu is the format that best demonstrates the kitchen's range, drawing on distinct regional traditions rather than a generic subcontinental sweep. A stylish cocktail bar and decorative fretwork set the room apart from the surrounding retail context.

Chapter One by Mickael Viljanen

2 Michelin stars · Deep wine list

Chapter One by Mickael Viljanen holds two Michelin stars and a La Liste score of 89 points, placing it at the summit of Dublin's fine dining tier. Located on Parnell Square North, the restaurant builds its menu around prime Irish and European ingredients treated through classical French technique. Booking well in advance is standard practice for tables here.

D'Olier Street

1 Michelin star

Among Dublin's Michelin-starred restaurants, D'Olier Street operates at the intersection of architectural heritage and technically driven modern cuisine. A surprise menu format, counter seating overlooking the kitchen, and a wine program recognized five times by Star Wine List, including the number-one ranking in 2023 and 2024, place it firmly in the city's upper tier of contemporary dining.

Delahunt

A Victorian grocer's shop on Camden Street Lower that earned a Michelin Plate in 2025, Delahunt pairs genuine historical character with cooking built around Irish produce. The room holds its age well, from the glass-enclosed clerk's snug that now serves as a private dining room to the upstairs Sitting Room for post-dinner drinks. At the €€€ price point, it occupies a considered middle tier in Dublin's modern dining scene.

First Chapter

Deep wine list

First Chapter occupies a Fade Street address in Dublin's creative core, operating within the city's growing tier of neighbourhood-anchored dining rooms where the repeat visitor shapes the room as much as the menu does. The space draws a loyal cohort who return for consistency rather than occasion, placing it alongside Dublin's broader shift toward accessible, conversation-led dining over formal ceremony.

Forest Avenue

1 Michelin star

Husband-and-wife team John and Sandy Wyer run a tasting menu operation recognised by Michelin in both 2024 and 2025, with a focused wine list and a kitchen that pushes contemporary Irish cooking into genuinely experimental territory.

Glovers Alley

1 Michelin star · Deep wine list

On the second floor of The Fitzwilliam Hotel, overlooking St Stephen's Green, Glovers Alley holds a Michelin star for cooking that pairs classical discipline with deliberate creative tension. Chef Andy McFadden's menu works through bold flavour combinations and precise technique, set against a room of 1930s-inflected softness. It occupies the upper tier of Dublin's fine-dining bracket at €€€€ pricing.

Host

Host on Ranelagh's main strip occupies a specific tier in Dublin's dining scene: informal in setting, serious in sourcing. The Nordic-influenced kitchen under chef Jonas Christensen has earned consecutive Michelin Plate recognition and a climbing Opinionated About Dining Casual Europe ranking, making it one of the more credentialled neighbourhood restaurants in the city at the mid-price point.

Jean-Georges at The Leinster

Jean-Georges Vongerichten's Dublin outpost occupies the top floor of The Leinster hotel on Mount Street Lower, pairing his globally recognised signatures, egg toast with caviar, crab spring rolls, with high-quality Irish produce. A Michelin Plate holder in both 2024 and 2025, the restaurant sits in Dublin's premium contemporary tier, with two terrace bars offering city skyline views before dinner.

Kicky's

On South Great George's Street, Kicky's pitches Mediterranean produce and charcoal cookery against a pop art interior with hip-hop on the sound system. A Michelin Plate in both 2024 and 2025, plus a Newcomer of the Year award, marks it as one of Dublin's more consequential openings in recent memory. The format is casual and high-energy, the sourcing local and considered.

mae

A first-floor tasting menu room above the French Paradox wine shop in Ballsbridge, mae holds a Michelin Plate (2025) and an OAD ranking for its pairings-led modern cooking. Chef-Owner Gráinne O'Keeffe works with Irish seasonal ingredients, Wicklow venison, Hegarty's cheddar, local game, in a small, convivial space where the wine list downstairs doubles as the cellar upstairs.

Matsukawa

An eight-seat kaiseki counter in Smithfield, Matsukawa holds a Michelin Plate and has ranked among the leading ten restaurants in Japan on Opinionated About Dining for three consecutive years. Chef Tadayoshi Matsukawa builds the omakase around Irish seafood, with nigiri forming the structural core of the meal. Seats are scarce, service runs efficiently, and sake completes the format.

Mr Fox

Set in the basement of a Georgian red-brick on Parnell Square, Mr Fox draws a loyal Dublin following with a well-priced set menu that puts Irish produce front and centre, sharpened by global technique. The Michelin Plate recognition for 2025 confirms what regulars already know: this is one of the northside's more considered modern dining rooms, and the tiled floor and warm service make it easy to stay longer than planned.

No.9 By J2Sushi

No.9 By J2Sushi brings Japanese culinary discipline to Dublin 4, operating from a compact address on Baggot Street Upper where precision technique meets the produce possibilities of the Irish larder. The restaurant sits within a Dublin dining scene increasingly comfortable with non-European reference points, placing it alongside the city's more technically focused rooms rather than its casual sushi-bar tier.

Patrick Guilbaud

2 Michelin stars · Deep wine list

Dublin's longest-standing two-Michelin-star restaurant has occupied its Georgian townhouse on Merrion Street since 1981, anchoring Ireland's fine dining conversation across four decades. The cooking is French at its core, shaped by premium Irish produce and a restrained modernity that the La Liste rankings, 93 points in 2026, consistently validate. Opinionated About Dining placed it 21st among Classical European restaurants in 2025.

Pearl Brasserie

Deep wine list

Pearl Brasserie occupies a Georgian address on Merrion Street Upper, placing it steps from the National Gallery and the political heart of Dublin 2. The kitchen works in a register familiar to anyone who follows contemporary Irish dining: locally sourced produce handled with the precision of continental technique. For visitors calibrating Dublin's serious restaurant tier, Pearl sits in a bracket worth understanding.

Pickle

On Camden Street Lower, Pickle holds a Michelin Plate for 2025, making it one critically recognised Indian restaurant in Dublin. The kitchen applies Northern Indian technique to Irish produce, spanning a midweek lunch menu, à la carte, and tasting menu at dinner. Signature dishes include the ghost keema pao with black cardamom and pork champ vindaloo.

Richmond

A Michelin Bib Gourmand holder for consecutive years, Richmond occupies a former shop on Richmond Street South in Portobello, one of Dublin's most food-serious neighbourhoods. Chef Patrick Willis runs a short, seasonally driven menu where traditionally grounded cooking meets careful restraint, and at €€ pricing, it represents the sharper end of value among Dublin's recognised modern kitchens.

SOLE Seafood & Grill

On Drury Street in Dublin's south city centre, SOLE Seafood & Grill applies contemporary technique to Irish coastal produce, a format that positions it squarely within the city's growing appetite for seafood-focused dining done with real precision. The room and the menu reflect a school of thought that treats the Atlantic as a larder first and a marketing hook second.

The Greenhouse

The Greenhouse occupies a considered address on Dawson Street in Dublin 2, placing it inside the city's most competitive tier of modern fine dining. The kitchen operates within a tradition that treats the multi-course tasting format as a progression rather than a parade, drawing comparisons with the wider cohort of Irish restaurants that have reframed what ambitious cooking looks like on this island. A reservation here operates in the same bracket as Dublin's most-discussed tasting menus.

Variety Jones

1 Michelin star

Variety Jones occupies a narrow room on Thomas Street in the Liberties, serving a six-course chef's choice menu cooked largely over open fire. The kitchen holds a Michelin star (2024) and a Star Wine List White Star, backed by a monthly-changing organic wine list. Booking windows are short and tables scarce, so planning ahead is non-negotiable.

Wilde

Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence · Deep wine list

Its wine program includes the notable 'Irish Wine Geese' section, documenting how Irish emigrants shaped famous wine regions abroad. For wine-focused diners in central Dublin, it represents a rare depth of list-building in a hotel setting.