Dowlings Wine Bar

11 Upper Baggot Street, Dublin 2

Participants: U, R, K


Rating

• Food: 3.5/6
• Drink: 4.7/6
• Toilet: 5/6
• Ambience: 3.3/6

Food

"Mixed platter with prosciutto, cheese, salad, crackers, bread. Quite nice, but you don't go to a wine bar for its food, anyway."

Drink

"We had a bottle of Chinon Charles Joguet. It tasted a bit unusual at the beginning, but got better with every sip. Not the usual stuff."
"Wine tasted of red grapes - I'm pretty sure that's what is was. Maybe a hint of apple. Definitely oak casks. Smokey?!"
"I would like to have better bread, not the ordinary sode one from the supermarket."

Ambience

"Great music, at appropriate volume. Changing temperate with door opened and closed, fireplace up and down. Woman with loud and frequent laugh really spoiled the whole experience."
"But a bit stinky, the fireplace doesn't work properly, but hey! A fireplace!"
"Another guy got himself drunk with Orange lemonade..."

Toilet

"Soap, dryer, paper - all there, even lotion. Fresh flowers."

Burger King

Many locations in Dublin - the one tested: Baggot Street

Participants: Keith, João


Food

"Food was served in a timely manner with a satisfactory service"
"Burger and fries were hot, but did not look like thos shown on the 'menu' - disappointment!"

Drink

"Delightful orange sparkling sensation. I'm positive that only the finest organic oranges were used."

Ambience

"Contemporary, minimalistic design. Grateful and eclectic group of cliental from all creeds of life. Rushed affair."

Pravda

Pravda
Lower Liffey Street


Rating

• Drink: 3/6
• Toilet: 4/6
• Ambience: 5/6

Drinks

Hot Whiskey: "Nothing 2 write home about. No Irish Coffee available, because "coffee is not served" after eight!?!"
Fruit Cocktail: "like liquid marshmallows - yuck!"

Ambience

"Good music!"
"I really like the Pravda - just stay away from their cocktails and stick to their extensive range of vodkas. Good place for people watching - oh my gosh, so many women in wild-animal-patterned miniskirts!"
"The various mirrors on the walls were definitely _not_ designed for wall-mounting, but were found? after the cold war? in former soviet-annexed country bedrooms? Well, sort of..."
"Unorthodox and pathetic as the Berlin Wall..."
"Girls in grotesque costumes, and you can still hear what people say at 11pm. How great is that?"

101 Talbot

101 Talbot
Upstairs
100-102 Talbot Street
Dublin 1

Participants: F, R, U, J


Rating

• Food: 4.4/6
• Drink: 3.8/6
• Toilet: 4.8/6
• Ambience: 3.7/6

Food

"I had the homemade Pork and Apple sausage (apple was a bit lost), skillfully combined with red onions. (...) Really good food, amazing value (2 courses, 21,50€)."
"Unusually sophisticated vegetarian food, most restaurants lack the necessary inspiration, when it comes to vegetarian food; here they really put some effort into it."
"Chef doesn't seem to use salt."
Risotto pumpkin and goat cheese: "Again, tasty, but no salt. NOT HOT ENOUGH. Interesting flavour combination (pumpkin, spring onion, subtle goat cheese)."
Pear poached in red wine, with home made cookies: "incredibly delicious, wonderful!"

Drink

"Beer too warm, coffee non-descript."

Toilet

"Three stalls, soap dispenser working - and even flushing was possible!"

Ambience

"Very friendly + lively place, nice service. A bit noisy and crowded, but for our group of 4 it's great."
"Nice warm light, but really noisy."
"The greasy, dirty fan at the ceiling was a bit disgusting."

The Cedar Tree Lebanese Restaurant

11a St Andrew St
Dublin 2




Participants: A, M, U, R


Rating

• Food: 4/6
• Drink: 5/6
• Toilet: 4/6
• Ambience: 5/6

Food

Hummus & meat + Lebanese bread: "We really enjoyed this kind of hummus!"
Spicy feta pieces (Shanklish): "Very interesting, not very spicy, and I missed a kind of sauce like tomato sauce."
"Overall all dishes could have done with more spices."
"The charbroiled chicken was kind of _black_ at some places. The meat was very soft and tasty, though."

Drink

Almaza Lager Beer: "nice and refreshing - but not a difference from any other lager."
"Had a cup of tea and Lebanese coffee that came in a little metal pot with a long handle and was more interestingly spiced that much of the food. Delicious!"

Toilet

"What is it with Dublin restaurants and non-flush toilets?!"

Ambience

"Especially nice chairs and tables - I need to get one of these!"

Fallon & Byrne, Ice Cream

Fallon & Byrne
Exchequer Building 11-17
Exchequer Street
Dublin 2

The upscale super market Fallon & Byrne (website pretty outdated) is also serving ice cream for take-away. Upstairs restaurant and downstairs wine cellar available.


Rating

• Overall: 4.3/6

Raspberry Sorbet + Vanilla: "Vanilla was quite sweet, could have had more vanilla stuff in it. Raspberry really fruity and refreshing."
Stracciatella: "This time, unfortunately, the Str. had a lot of frozen water crystals in it."
"Good for Dublin standards, but I prefer San Crispino." in Rome... ;-)

Humphrey's Pub

Ranelagh Road


Rating

• Overall: 3.8/6

"Chairs not as comfy as they look, a bit disgusting"
"Nice old school pub with locals watching football."
"Chairs looked like generations of fried-eating patrons had cleaned their greasy fingers by wiping them over the chairs' surface - yuck!"
"They close the curtains at 11pm, and deprived us of entertainment - but followed legal requirements, I suppose."