The Michelin Guide to Dublin

The most assured restaurant in Ireland. Viljanen took over from Ross Lewis in 2022 and pushed a room that was already excellent into something the rest of Europe now travels for. The basement dining room under the Dublin Writers Museum has the quiet confidence of a place that no longer needs to prove anything. Service is warm in the Irish way, precise in the French way, and never performative.

The oldest two-star in Ireland and, at lunch, the best-value fine dining meal in the country. Guilbaud occupies the ground floor of The Merrion, and the walls carry a private art collection that would embarrass most Dublin galleries. The room is formal, the service is old-guard French, and the technique behind the plates has not slipped in forty years.

Twenty seats, one nightly service, and the most singular cooking in Ireland. Damien Grey works out of a converted stall in Blackrock Market, ten minutes by DART from the city centre. There is no à la carte, no wine list on paper, no compromise. This is the meal you fly for.

The star that changed the Dublin conversation. Keelan Higgs cooks over open flame in a narrow Liberties dining room that fits about thirty. This is the least formal Michelin room in Dublin and, on a good night, the most joyful. If Chapter One is the meal to book for a milestone, Variety Jones is the one to book for a Friday.

The Michelin star that fits a Tuesday night. Bastible sits on the South Circular Road in Portobello, a residential street where you would not expect starred cooking, which is the point. Cúán Greene, formerly of Noma, does quiet, deeply sourced Irish food in a room of about twenty-five covers. The five-course tasting is the price of a mid-tier Dublin dinner elsewhere.

The starred restaurant on the Green. McFadden trained at Pied à Terre in London and cooks with real French discipline in a first-floor room overlooking St Stephen's Green. It is the most underrated one-star in Dublin: easier to book than the others on this list, and, for a lunch after a morning at the National Gallery, the correct choice.

A restored Victorian grocery on Camden Street with a Michelin Bib Gourmand and the best Sunday lunch in Dublin. The room is small and warm, the wine list is thoughtful, and the cooking sits exactly where a Dublin neighbourhood restaurant should. If you have a spare Sunday afternoon in the city, spend it here.

The best-value Michelin-recognised meal in Dublin. Uno Mas sits on Aungier Street, a narrow room of Spanish small plates cooked with real precision. The Bib Gourmand recognises the price-to-quality ratio; the room recognises that a plate of jamón, a Basque tortilla and a bottle of Ribera del Duero is exactly what a Tuesday night in Dublin should be.

The restaurant Dubliners eat at when they don't feel like performing. Etto has never gone for a star and never will, which is exactly what has kept it the honest lunch of the city for a decade. A narrow room on Merrion Row with a marble bar, Italian small plates, and a list of natural wines by the glass that reads better than most sommelier programmes in Dublin.