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    Havana

    3.6 (51 reviews)
    ModerateSpanish, Tapas Bars
    Open 11:30 am - 11:00 pm

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    What's the vibe?
    Classy
    Casual
    Moderate noise
    Good for groups

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    Vegetarian Spanish omelette with bread, hummus, cheese & salad (€6.50)
    Andy O.

    A nice place to wander into if you're looking for cheap, cheerful & decent food. The staff are super sound, they give off that "we'll look after you" vibe that so many restaurants lack. The menu is an assortment of spanish inspired food that doesn't require much thought when you're ordering. I've eaten the paella (€5 on Monday!) and also the spanish omelette with cheese & bread and it's all nice, if a little bit safe and unexciting. It's got a slightly rustic feel to the place, like you're stepping into your nana's cottage in the countryside. I've heard this place can be good for drinks, but I've only ventured here at lunch times so can't comment on this yet. Overall, it's kinda impossible to hate or love this place. It plays it safe and does exactly what it wants v. well. A nice fallback option if the more experimental cafes & restaurants get on your nerves.

    chorizo and potatoes
    Reid Y.

    This was one of the first places I ate at when I came to Dublin. It's a small place and I think they play music in the evenings/weekends. The atmosphere is nice and there's a good amount of food traffic/people reading books to make it nice. As for the food - it's pretty good and relatively inexpensive (which should be taken with a grain of salt - this is still Dublin we're talking about). I had the chorizo and potatoes, which turned out to be pretty darn good. The sangria definitely helped me overcome my jetlag as well :)

    Natalie M.

    Havana is gorgeous. I used to go to the one on Grantham Street all the time - it's brilliant. The food is delicious. From cheese and meat plates to paella, chorizo stew and gorgeous soups. They warm you to the core. And they're good value. I love the Spanish meatballs with patatas bravas - a large one is just €10.95 and boy is it large. Their desserts are lovely too and it's the type of place you'll want to sit on. They do salsa in the evening if you're feeling more energetic!

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    Alexandra M.

    When I go out for dinner, I like to go to places where I don't know how to make the food. I mean, do I really want to pay 12 Euro for a lasagna when I could buy the ingredients myself and make it for a fraction of the cost? And lasagna isn't very exotic, is it? Well, that's why I like Havana. The food is different from what is served in other restaurants and I don't feel like I'm being being cheated out of my money. Despite being named after a city in Cuba, the cuisine is mostly Spanish. The menu entices you with such dishes as paella, Spanish meatballs, calamaris and Chorizo Frito. I ordered the Havana meat platter to share with my friend and a bottle of wine. The place was packed so we ate at the bar where I got a good view of all the action in the kitchen. Another good thing about this restaurant is that they offer Spanish classes to customers. Me gusto mucho Havana!

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    Aoife R.

    Havana is always busy in the evenings, particularly on weekend nights, as its keen prices and mojito pitchers prove an irresistible draw for the hungry gourmet and the broke student alike. Inside, service is rough and ready - the waiter may balance something on your head as he navigates a tricky corner - but friendly enough. The food is the usual tapas dishes, including fab Spanish meatballs and lentil and chorizo stew.

    Paella galore!!

    Ohhhh those Havanaaaaaa niiiiiights! I've been to this restaurant twice now - once for cocktails and another for a dinner event. This place is just so fun! The atmosphere is so casual and they have a few drink specials - 15 euro pitchers of mojitos, buy one get one cocktails, etc! I tried the wings and they were coated in the best tasting sauce - part buffalo and part Caribbean! So nice! I also tried the meatballs which were really tender. The chicken paella was the best of all the paella I had which were: chicken, seafood and veg. For desert, we had the churros. They tasted like the food that had been cooked in the fryer last - disappointing! They came with a nice chocolate dipping sauce. This might be ideal for a first date - not too romantic and loud enough to fill awkward silences. Oh and nice on the wallet!

    Havana lunch- omelet, Serrano ham, salad, hummous

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    Taste at Rustic - Taste at Rustic located upstairs

    Taste at Rustic

    4.4(28 reviews)
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    There are reasons I know I'm getting old, aside from the fact that the birthdays just keep crashing…read morein likes waves. One is my failing sight after years of relying on my eyes and my eyes alone to read. Another perhaps less common garden variety is the internal meltdown I face when confronted with a lot of menu choice in restaurants. If you identify with the latter, you may wish to save yourself a lot of hassle and simply choose the set menu here. If not, be warned, the a la carte alternative is complex, and for your own sake don't arrive tired or emotional. This is a prime mental condition eating experience. Famed Dublin restauranteur Dylan McGrath is an ideas man. His restaurants are as much about concept as they are about food, and though I'm sure there's a big heart in there, the head rules. If you want proof, study the menu. Across the top are taste categories (bitter, salty, sweet, etc.). Down the left are dish categories. So you scale down, then across, to see what combination of taste and texture your dish offers. And there are lots of choices. And a huge variety of prices. But what's less clear is quantity. And I was hungry and wanted to know I'd get an oul dinner into me before that difficult hungry phase that reduces my brain to mush and makes me want to howl like a baby. The very friendly waitress reassured us that though the menu seems complex first time round, after you've done it once, it's a breeze. (That's how I cottoned on to the fact that the wait staff here have post docs in maths.) Full marks for trying though. No less than two members of staff talked us through things, and they really did their best - did I sense concern that people are having difficulty getting it? Whichever - in the end, it was all too much for me - cue set menu. So, to my relief, for forty euros, you can certainly expect to leave full, with sushi starters - ok, it's not called sushi, it's the long one with the piece of fish on top of the rice (though more wasabi, please) -,delicious miso with clams and those delicate long-stemmed mushrooms that definitely have a name, beef skewers with rice (too much rice already) and potato main, and desert. The food presentation is beautiful, served on marble slabs and in delicate ceramics, with a Japanese-influenced simplicity. I thought the restaurant was Japanese from the menu but see from the website there are Spanish and South American influences too - not very obvious to me but then again I flunked the menu test. The sushi that isn't sushi was yummy, especially the turbot which was a smoky hit of flavour, and the sea bass, with a smooth texture that melts on the tongue. The beef is served on a mini-BBQ which, like the mushrooms, has a proper name. (The only problem with this method of on-table serving is being smoked out of it by the table next door who's got too much fuel on the fire.) If you want your steak more than medium rare, just cook on. My steak was a slightly mixed experience being a bit fatty, though my partner didn't have the same issue. Desert was ginger panna cotta, with melon granita, which was light yet intense in flavour and delicious. We had tried to book Rustic Stone, the restaurant downstairs, but it was full and they suggested we try Taste. We didn't know it was Japanese-influenced and I think they took this on board upon seeing our menu-bafflement and offered a glass of wine on the house. Fair enough. If I returned I'd be armed with a more rested brain (like I'd give it a full day off beforehand, take it to the pictures, buy it flowers, tell it it was looking great) and I would square right up to that a la carte menu, look it in the eye and plainly demand to know its tofu options, the brute, and I wouldn't take no for an answer. The Japanese are masters of simplicity, so ultimately I agree if for different reasons that Taste is not a Japanese restaurant. But the food largely made up for it, the service was good, it's a relaxing place to eat, and if the head wins over the heart, there's no denying it's a decent head. If you don't believe me, just look in the window where its image hangs pride of place, presumably so you know who best to talk to if you need anything explained.

    In expectation of my arrival in Dublin for a 17 day visit, my sister sent me Taste as a potential…read moredinner option while I was staying with her. Coincidentally, I had a hankering for sushi on the first night and so after snagging a reservation, off we went to Taste. The restaurant was located on the third floor of Rustic Stone. We were seated at the sushi bar for dinner. The bar itself was different from those that I've experienced in the US where the cooking area is lower so you have a view of what the chef is making; however, the bar seating at Taste was also way roomier than most in the US. My sister and I opted for the €60 omakase - I requested the umami miso and the duck broth, while my sister had the regular miso and the salmon broth - and added on some toro nigiri. We also ordered cocktails - the Eastern Promise and the Gin Garden - which were excellent. The meal was excellent! The nigiri combinations were sometimes surprising but they worked well. The quality of the fish was also very good. I loved the broth and cooking the duck breast myself - it was so rich and the flavours were deep and well-developed. For the "light dessert" they brought out three options: a cheesecake, a coconut ice cream, and a ginger flan. The cheesecake actually had this odd cheese (not cream cheese or ricotta) taste but my sister and I were obsessed. Minus one star for the service because although everyone was super super nice, it was slooooooow. Our meal took about 3 hours. Not that we minded but just be wary that you might be here awhile! However, the meal meal was excellent and my sister and I agreed that between us there was nothing on the menu that we wouldn't order.

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