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Bar Italia

¢-$, Italian, Dublin West

User Rating: **** 4.4

Fodor's Review:

We hope you're not shy about being seen eating, because the front of tiny Bar Italia is a sheer wall of glass that looks out onto the Liffey and the Civic Offices at Wood Quay. If the weather is good, snag one of the tables on the patio and grin at the office workers trudging back to work after lunch. The menu is short and simple, but everything on it is guaranteed to be fresh and cooked like your mother back in Naples would have done. The minestrone soup is, without question, the best in Ireland, and the melt-on-your-tongue gnocchi is served in a few different sauces. People travel miles to have their coffee here and the house wines never let you down. They now have a second, slightly more formal restaurant in the new "Italian Quarter," almost directly across the river on Ormond Quay.

User Reviews & Ratings:

a real italian

Posted by quettz from dublin on 1/26/07

a real italian restuarant,clean, good linen, good service and,of course, great food. big helpings, very good house wine and excellent coffee.risotto was beautiful,cold meat platters seem to be very popular and mushroom taglitelli looked really good.

FOOD: 5.0

ATMOSPHERE: 4.0

SERVICE: 4.0

VALUE: 2.0

RATING: 4.0

If you like wine on a sunny day this is the place for you!

Posted by Maria from Ireland on 4/4/06

I live in Dublin also and this is the place for something a bit more relaxing than the usual dublin pub scene.

FOOD: 3.0

ATMOSPHERE: 5.0

SERVICE: 5.0

VALUE: 5.0

RATING: 4.2

Excellent food at excellent Prices Its a must try in Dublin

Posted by SiobhanP from Dublin on 11/2/05

I live here in Dublin and this has been a secret for a while. This restaurant faces the Quays just over the Millenium Bridge from Temple Bar in a laneway. Across is an Enttecca with wines from Piedmonte and a Pannini place behind it and a small pizza shop at the end. The restaurant is the best Italian and at the best prices in Dublin. Wine mark up is also very reasonable and I have been here for Business and with friends and have never let me down. The enotecca across from it does Amazing Antipasti plate or cheese plates. Wonderful area in the summer.

FOOD: 5.0

ATMOSPHERE: 5.0

SERVICE: 5.0

VALUE: 5.0

RATING: 5.0