Came for brunch on a Saturday morning. While my beetroot salad was fairly boring, my friend's was the sausages with egg and home fries. Delicious and on a sunny day there's nothing better than sitting outside and people-watching on fade street. read more

Candlelit ambiance goes well with the cuisine. Duck eggs with salad was an excellent starter. The smoked mackerel pate was generously sized but more of a mousse and rather tasteless. The entrees showed well: a goat cheese tart with excellent pastry and filling and a roast baby chicken with potatoes and onions. Good wine choices. Our best meal in Dublin. read more

I haven't been here for a while and the food has always been good but... The menu doesn't change that often and if u eat here on a couple of occasions you will have tried everything on the menu. The main factor that has put me off returning here wasn't the fact that they didn't take bookings (as some people like this) it was the fact that I went back after about 2 months away and I brought a group of friends. For some reason ALL the prices were 40% more expensive and when I questioned it they murmured something about the extension to the dining area they had acquired which funnily enough the kitchen can't handle when they do their 2 sittings so they leave the tables empty and patrons queueing at the door! read more

real nice restaurant. Went along before a christy moore concert at vicar st. Had to hurry because we were running late but the waiter was cool and made sure we were taken care of. Food was delicous. Snails for starter. Rib Eye for main course. The girlfriends food was delicous too (cant remember what she had, some kinda fish). It wasnt too expensive either. 2 glasses of wine, 2 starters, 2 main courses for under €80 I think it was. If I had to pick a fault I'd say the only thing I didn't like was that chips featured once or twice on the main menu which I think lets the place down. I had to ask for potatoes and whenever I ask for anything not onthe menu my gf gets embarassed. Maybe its me but I dont like seein chips on a nice menu when I'm forkin out decent money. It's a proper restaurant though - no doubt about it! Go read more

Had a fantastic lunch here. Good value, great atmosphere, wonderful food.

When I first came here, I really liked this place. I had every intention of making this a staple in my "go to" restaurants list, at least for appetizers. While all of the food was good, the appetizers were great. Well, I happened in here on the last night of restaurant week and I just could not pass up a bargain. I ordered dinner off there preset menu - I think it was 25 for 3 courses. It was a mistake. The pasta with crab was okay as was my wife's french onion soup and the venison stew was also okay (my wife was less impressed with her poussin)as was the creme brulee, but nothing stood out - except for the wine - a glass of rioja and a glass of albarino(both good choices). I still like the restaurant - the cavernous space and somewhat attentive (and somewhat not) service - very french adds to the enjoyment. Despite a massive road work project in front of it, the place was fairly full. I still want to go back and have my appetizer dinner at the bar, but I will probably be a little less excited when I get there. read more

I was very impressed. steak was excellent the service was great, and everyone else I was with really liked their meals as well. No reason not to love this place. read more

I've been to L'Gueuleton several times and even though I like the food, there's always something that bugs me. It can be the fact that the service is really disorganised, verging on unprofessional (example: you book as a group for 12 people, you confirm twice and when you show up, they tell you they got mixed up and thought it was 2 people). It can be the fact that certain things are not what they tell you they are: the current "banana tarte tatin" is NOT a tarte tatin but more a banana upside down cake. And the last time I asked for a decaf, it was NOT a decaf, if I am to believe my usual reaction to caffeine (increased heart rate and nauseous feeling after about 10 minutes). So.... Okay brasserie type food but the service is a complete letdown. Kudos to the pastry chef however. read more

Went here last night for 7th anniversary - really really good french food. Scallops incredible, beef cheek melt in mouth, open kitchen, cool ambiance read more

Had a wonderful night in their bar on Friday, great drinks, bar staff were great. Accommodating to a big group. Recommend their old Berta gin and tonics read more

Came to Dublin on business & took clients out for a quick lunch. We only had time for a main course, and had croque Madame, croque Monsieur, moules & frites & baked cod with sautéed potatoes & greens, between four people. The service was very pleasant & the food albeit not overwhelming was well prepared & tasty. I would recommend it if you are after something quick which isn't costly. read more

Had a casual wander about town on a balmy Thursday evening, hell bent on trying something new. First, there was a Moroccan restaurant that boasted 'patella' in their starters, a wondrous and quintessentially North African combination of sweet and savoury, then an endless stream of tapas joints, as though the notion had just been invented. I found myself drawn to a tried and tested favourite, L'Gueuleton, on Fade St for, what the hell, steak n chips. Mind you, this is a rib eye, packed with flavour. As a starter, I had the grilled asparagus and soft boiled egg, and although this was served with absolutely too much watercress and not enough asparagus, the egg did, very comfortably fit the description. The steak, cooked rare, to perfection, as the French can do, was substantial and juicy. My afters, an Armagnac and double espresso, were excellent, if grossly overpriced (a bottle of very good Armagnac from the Bas region) can be bought for €35 in Dublin, with between 12 and 15 shots). With a half carafe of a Languedoc merlot/Cabernet blend and a fair wind, the total came to €68. A whole lot, you might imagine, for one person but given the unobtrusive attention of my excellent waitress, well worth for a hungry waiter after a week of serving others. read more

Brasserie66 was closed so we ended up here. Service was good, food was ok. Duck confit tasty, steak and pomme frite..steak as chewy as it gets, beef cheeks, not as melt in your mouth as some so just so so. Happening place, crowded but wouldn't recommend. read more

Holy hell, Rob just made me the best Manhattan I've ever had! As a long time bartender, mad props to him for this! Well done!

Grabbed lunch here today, had the 'French Dip' which was a beef sandwich. Very tasty and huge portion great value at €13. Rest of the group enjoyed theirs too. In a great spot in the middle of town. read more

Delicious! Nice french style cuisine.. Got the snails myself ! Only four stars because I asked for the steak to be blue (I mentioned to the waiter I like raw meat) but got it all bit overcooked for my taste. But really like the place will go again :-) read more

L'Gueuleton opened with a bang some years ago offering excellent food at more affordable prices. There is a serious lack of middle ground restaurants in Dublin - where good food is affordable in bistro surroundings - and this place fitted the bill on day one. But it has drifted slowly towards the more exclusive category on pricing, just a tad now. It has retained rather than softened a lofty and haughty service attitude that is unnecessarily annoying. And it has continued a no-booking policy which does nothing but inconvenience people for the sake of the restaurant ensuring it can fill up and have fast turn-over. The customer's always wrong apparently. The food is superb. No doubt. The popularity of the place is obvious and is a tribute to the food. But the customer service and attitude end of this business is the killer. I thoroughly recommend this restaurant, but only if you are mild mannered and don't take things too personally. I suffer from neither of those traits. read more

Love love love this place, best rib eye in Dublin, homemade cut chips, bernaise. Great friendly service at all times! Love it.

When this place first opened, sometime in 2005 I think, it was an amazing little spot; high quality food at reasonable prices, possibly unique for Celtic Tiger Dublin. I remember having the best ever Toulouse sausage and mash here, and another time having blood pudding and stewed apple, mmmm. I popped in here for lunch today and the menu is still pretty decent, most dishes come in under ten euro. I had a hankering for soupe a l'oignon, or French onion soup as it is called everywhere outside of France. I've always been slightly mystified why it's specifically called 'French' onion soup, I suppose it's the addition of the bread and melted gruyere cheese that make it French. Anyhoo, I should lay my French onion soup cards out here. I have a bit of an addiction to the kind of cheap and cheerful onion soup served by the crappier restaurants in Paris, particularly those down behind the Boulevard Saint Michel, yes that's right, in there in rue de la Harpe. I'm not ashamed. The soup is delicious; a dark-ish but still clear broth, brimming with soft lengths of onion strings, topped with cheap white baguette and gruyere cheese. YOM. The secret ingredient is onionyness. (Say 'onionyness' five times fast, go on). So basically, I know what I like, but I may not be the best judge of ...er... 'gourmet' French onion soup, such as one might expect from a restaurant like L'Gueuleton (at €8.50, I would certainly expect it to be bloody 'gourmet'). Well, it was kind of salty. Not excessively 'pah, pah, get me a glass of water!' salty, but salty enough to cover any actual flavour. The texture was right, slimy in an oniony way (I know that sliminess is generally not a good thing in food but here's the exception) and brothy. The bread and melted cheese was nice but, and here's where this review gets rather petty: the bread had become completely soaked in soup and disintegrated, and there was too much damn cheese. I ended up shovelling large swathes of cheese into my mouth with some soggy breadbits attached. The soup had been served with one slice of white bread and one slice of thick, sweet brown bread on the side and neither were matched well with the soup. The white bread just disintegrated while I was using it to mop up the soup, and the brown bread was too sweet and did not at all suit the salty, aiming-for-oniony flavour of the soup. I got the impression the breads were there for the look of the thing, oh we're a nice restaurant, we serve nice bread. Sigh. French onion soup is a peasant food. It doesn't need flounces, unless you're a food fancier, as opposed to a food eater. This soup needed more onion flavour, less salt, less wussy bread and the addition of some thick unfancy baguette both topped with cheese in the soup itself and served on the side to mop up excess soup. This may not be acceptable food etiquette for a fancy restaurant, but if that's the case, don't serve food that requires one to enjoy it in an unfancy way. A proper French restaurant wouldn't worry about such things. Food is to be enjoyed after all. Oh well. It was decent, I suppose. I still prefer the cheap and cheerful soup served in the crappier parts of the Quartier Latin. Vive Paris touristique! read more

A great little find on Fade Street - french style bistro with rustic french food. Really good value with huge portions of yummy food! The wine list is great too. The only drawback is that its sometimes hard to get a table! read more

First night in Dublin and the dinner was great! Chicken liver and foie gras parfait w/ toasted sourdough was good, char grilled ribeye w Paris butter was great, roast chicken was so crispy and beef cheeks were tender! read more

Had set menu here on Friday 24th Aug 2012. Two waitresses who served us were very unfriendly and impatient. Both behaved as though we were an inconvenience. We weren't asked how our meal was or if we had enjoyed it. Starter of foie gras with brioche was v tasty. Mains of sirloin was good but fries were either slightly crisp or chewy. They had no mayonnaise when I asked for some and weren't too worried about it either. Dessert of praline meringue was very disappointing - it was served as a mousse in a glass. Wouldn't recommend this restaurant. read more

We received impeccable service here, which we really appreciated. The duck egg mayonnaise was delicious although the mayo was a bit heavy-handed. The french onion soup was good; traditional but I thought it could have used a stronger beef stock flavor. Mussels were amazing in flavor but a bit gritty - our server was kind enough to remove them from our bill, however, which was a nice gesture. The John Dory was awesome - perfectly cooked fish that has become my new favorite. The crayfish that were included in the dish were delectable little morsels that my wife kept stealing from my plate. The ribeye, which my wife ordered was cooked perfectly and screamed flavor, although it could have been better trimmed as it was a gristle-ridden steak. Creme caramel and chocolate marquise desserts were good although not all that remarkable. It got a bit warm inside, so our server was kind enough to move us to their semi-private back patio where we shared our dessert and the rest of our wine. Very cozy spot that I'd frequent regularly if I lived in Dublin. If you don't look closely you'll walk right by it, though, so keep your eyes open. read more