Chez Max

Chez Max
1 Palace Street, next to Dublin Castle





Participants: J, U, F, R


Rating

• Food: 4.9/6
• Drink: 4.5/6
• Toilet: 4/6
  
• Ambience: 5/6

Food

Tartar of salmon: "Gorgeous!" "OK, but would have expected taw salmon, and to be served with toast. Nice dressing on salad."
Quiche with leek and salad: "Good, but nothing absolutely special."
Crème brûlée: "Really good, but I had better ones, because I'm hopelessly spoiled."
French onion soup: "Broth came separately, making sure the croutons were crisp."
Porc Agilet, with garlic mashed potatoes: "For my taste - the porc was too fatty."
Ray with tomato and capers: "Fish tasty and interesting, but not enough vegetables. Very much butter on the fish -> very rich."

"Excellent value for the money." (19€ for 2 courses)
"Nice company as well!" ;-)

Drink

"Red wine - blabla St Eulalie, sounds funny, but tasted good."

Ambience

"Cozy, small restaurant with old European feel and Spanish music."

Toilet

"Yes, flushing is possible. All necessary equipment available."
"Downstairs, if you go straight, you enter the kitchen..."

Dunne and Crescenzi

Dunne and Crescenzi
Sandymount
Also another one: close to Grafton Street, parallel to Dawson Street





Participants: U, R, F, L

Rating

• Food: 4.9/6
• Drink: 5.3/6
• Ambience: 5/6

Food

Bresaola with parmesan, rocket, olive oil and lemon: "perfect dish."
Wild boar with tomato sauce and polenta: "The boar was spicy and full of flavor, the meat soft."
Salmon: "very juicy, just done"
Ravioli "Good food based on excellent ingredients."
Panna cotta: "maybe a little bit artificial?"
Mozzarella with vegetables: "Great moz., not like the rubber m. at some places."
Chicken, mortadella, cheese: "very fine meat, but the flavor of the M. and cheese 'overshadowed' everything."
Tart, pear & almonds: "very tasty, perfect!"

Drink

Ripasso: "yummy"

Toilet

"nothing special, but flushing worked just fine (what a surprise... !)"

Ambience

"No Eros Ramazotti! Good."
"I like the place a lot - wine bottles all over the wall, crowded but not busy - professional team."

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!"