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    Pacino's

    3.5 (77 reviews)
    ModerateItalian, Dance Clubs
    Closed 11:00 am - 11:00 pm

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    What's the vibe?
    Casual
    Moderate noise
    Good for kids
    Outdoor seating

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    Amanda K R.

    OMG! I know that pasta and pizza aren't what come to mind when in Dublin, Ireland. After logging some miles, and the dogs were barking... made our way into this fine establishment. Best part, my travel mate has some dietary issues and not only was Pacino's accommodating, but as is ALL OF IRELAND that we encountered. Gluten free pizza and pasta- excellent wine selection, clean & priced accordingly. Excellent service to boot.

    outdoor seating with heaters in umbrella
    Betsy B.

    We came across this restaurant while walking around and decided to stop. We were told that the inside was not available but we could eat outside so we gave it a try. Although it was a bit chilly they had heaters on the umbrellas which worked quite well. The food is Italian and there were a lot of choices. We started with the pizza garlic bread which was good. I had the pumpkin ravioli which was very good and a nice portion-not too large and just right. Service was a bit spotty. The server was nice and all but things took awhile. We had a hard time getting the check after our meal although the hostess was trying to hurry people to leave. Finally we grabbed her to get the check and were able to leave.

    Close Bagatelle wine e36 and Gorgonzola Spinach Gnocchi e15...AMAZING!
    Jeannie M.

    Pacino's was absolutely wonderful! From the apertif to assistance with choosing the best wine to the fabulous gnocchi, this place was a delight. After shopping St. Stephen's Green, we wanted to find a nice meal and had enjoyed eating in pubs the whole week. But we wanted something different. Yelp's rating for this facility did not lead us wrong. When we stopped and asked they were only taking those with reservations, but they did what they could and made a small table for us by the bar. Additionally, they were more than compliant and happy to provide us the two free drinks via the Yelp coupon I received when checking in. Thank you to Pacino's for being such a delightful find in central Dublin.

    Florent G.

    Nice Italian restaurant. Service is perfect food a'd portions are great. You can come without any doubt

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    Tammy G.

    On our trip to Dublin, this was my favorite lunch. What drew us in was the Bloody Marys that were posted on the brunch menu. Being a little burnt out on pints, this was a nice change. I ordered an avocado starter that had capers and olives over baby lettuce. Sounds simple but if was delicious, followed by an equally terrific salad with goat cheese, nuts and quinoa. The music playing was coming from a DJ in the corner. The women I was traveling with seemed to enjoy their meals just as much as me. If you want to take a break from pub style fish and chips with a pint, try this place.

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    Corina R.

    The restaurant is lovely inside. Our waiter was very attentive and prompt. We got buy one cocktail get one free when we checked in on Yelp. The food was fairly good. I ordered the chicken soup it was a little too salty for my taste. Their bread was very good served with olive oil and balsamic vinegar. My husband ordered the pasta arribiatta And it was not spicy enough for him. I would like to go back and try something else on their menu. They have several good options Wow, tried them a second time. Antipasto excellent, pizza perfect thin crust, lasagna very good.

    Kelly G.

    Very quaint and romantic, away from most of the crowds but still in the middle of Dublin! This place is perfect for a date or a nice meal with your family if you aren't into crowds or want a nice italian meal. Everything else around was either too high end or fancy for our taste, but we wanted something nice, so I am happy we found it!

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    Emily C.

    A true surprise. Having passed by Pacino's many many times over the years, I had genuinely never considered what culinary delights may await me inside. I guess being on the tourist trail has worked for them in some ways and worked against them in other ways. Being on the Sutton / Grafton St / next door to good aul Carroll's Gift Store, it unfortunately may put some locals off. Well no more! My eyes have been opened, I have seen the light! The food I have had in here is without doubt the best Italian food in the city. Chef Luca Mazza is apparently the driving force behind the transformation of Pacino's in recent times - he started there in the latter half of last year, bringing a Michelin star and Italian sensibilities with him. The food here is simple, good good food. The emphasis is on the ingredients and how they are married together, and this ethos is something that is immediately obvious from your first bite. Full, rich and flavoursome food. I had the pasta with fresh homemade tomato sauce, chili, garlic, cherry tomatoes and flat leaf parsley. This sounds like such a simple dish that it would be almost a shame to get it in a restaurant. Not so. Getting a dish like this just demonstrates how stunning really good ingredients can be if put together in the right way. Other than the food, the staff is top notch. Professional, some Italian and some Irish (all very suave!), approachable and friendly, but with a polished overtone. The guys in here know what they're doing. Now they just need everyone else to know too! Top Tip: 2 for 1 cocktails if you check in using your Yelp app!

    J T.

    Restaurant is supposed to be Italian, but the decor shows something completely different. The menu also has a few non-Italian dishes served with a side order of spelling mistakes! Had a steak tonight. Ordered it medium and got it well done. The waitress was nice and had it changed. Second steak was cooked properly but tough as hell. They must be buying the cheapest steak they can find in Dublin! My boyfriend had a Pest Pasta dish that was so bland. Tasted like tesco pasta. My plate was not heated so the steak and veggies went cold very fast. I think this restaurant is extremely over priced with Pizzas at €15 and Pasta at €14. Starters are €6.95 and a glass of wine 6.50 At these prices you could do better else where.

    Cathal C.

    I have a feeling that this restaurant has been on Suffolk St for a long time, and that I was brought there as a kid. We got excellent service and unusually large desserts as my Dad's friend, who brought us there, was the owner's bank manager, and had just organised him a loan. Ah, the joys of cronyism. I was back there not that long ago, this time unfortunately not in the company of my influential bank manager friend. Still, the service was still pretty decent. And the food wasn't bad either. I had the lasagne, and I find that lasagne is usually lasagne, very hard to get wrong, not usually incredible either, and Pacinos' was no exception. It was 14 or 15 euro though, which is a tiny bit steep for a run of the mill lasagne. What I really wasn't mad about, though, was the lighting. It's unusually dim inside Pacinos, and I'm one of those people who have to be able to see what I'm eating. Still, by the end of the meal I'd got used to it, I suppose, but it would be something that would put me off going back again.

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    The cocktails alone make Pacinos well worth a visit, go on, treat yourself!!!

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    Best meal during a full week meals in Dublin. Great wine, food and service. Manager is a charm.

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    Was just ok. The minestrone soup was pretty bland. The bolognese pasta was not bad, noodles appeared fresh which was nice.

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    2nd time here and both times have had a great buzz, delicious food and a really decent price. Very well done, we'll be back!

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    Being on the Sutton / Grafton St / next door to good aul Carroll's Gift Store, it unfortunately may put some locals off.

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    Copper Face Jacks - on a sunday night

    Copper Face Jacks

    3.0(70 reviews)
    0.9 kmHarcourt
    €€

    Let me preface this by saying I'm an old guy who loves dancing but doesn't go to clubs. I was on a…read moretour of Ireland and asked about dance venues and my Collette trip advisor name dropped Copper Face Jack's. I got there soon after it opened and I loved it. Loved the venue, loved the energy (although much of it was probably fueled by alcohol, I don't know- I'm part of the rare, lonesome breed who doesn't need alcohol to flail around like a maniac). Point is, the music selection was stuff you could dance to, so no complaints there. The DJ refused my request but I have weird taste so fair play. The bar staff kept me hydrated- they were on top of their game. I stuck around for two hours until there was literally no room left to dance due to the growing crowd. They wouldn't call a taxi for me which I guess is fine because so many cabs are already there, but there were other complications that weren't the club's fault so it's just me having a moan. All told? I'd definitely go again. If I ever come back to Dublin, anyway. Or Ireland in general.

    This may be the worst place I've ever been, but I highly recommend going. I somehow ended up at…read morethis shit-show of an establishment two days in a row while visiting Dublin (for two days...). This was a couple of years ago and we still tell stories of this place to this day. The place is straight raunchy. It's packed and people spill their drinks so much that they've hired a guy to consistently mop the floor, and the dude cuts through the dance floor with his mop like a hot knife through butter. Though I doubt this is helping the situation, since I saw someone collapse on the dance floor at least once every 30 minutes. I actually enjoyed the music. They had a live band play until midnight(?) and then had a DJ after that that played everything from Galway Girl to rap to Galway Girl to country to Galway Girl.... The crowd is mostly made up of young (university age) people walking around plastered with the deadest eyes you will ever come across in a living organism. Some of the best people watching, though; it's like the Walking Dead meets that Project X movie, but everyone is Irish. So, in sum, if you haven't been and are looking for a night to (partially) remember - go this place.

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    Capitol Lounge - Nice drink specials on a Saturday night

    Capitol Lounge

    2.8(53 reviews)
    0.4 kmSouth Inner City

    Saturday night in Temple bar area, 8pm. Looking to get an after dinner drink in a place that is not…read moremobbed. This place seems to have room. We walk around the corner and see a crowd of people out front. Ask the doorman if we can pop in for a drink. After a quick look over we get the A-OK to enter. Down a few steps on the left we head for a bar and quickly order our drinks. After a few, friendly words with other patrons we settle in and take a look around. This is going to be controversial, but I swear, this is what I saw for real. Not kidding, not exaggerating. For real. We are sitting to the side of the main bar. A bartender is pouring bottled water into a bottle of Jameson. Another employee came over and is talking to her while she is doing this. She 'squishes' the empty bottle, making that crushed plastic sound, before throwing it into the trash. Then she puts the pour spout back on top of the Jameson bottle and walks back into the main bar area. O.M.G. Really? Why me?! It is at this point I think to look at the Yelp reviews. Whoa. First thing I see is to the effect of 'my white friends got in, but not me'. Second thing I see is 'Asians not allowed'. Holy mackerel! My SO and I take a serious look around and O.M.G., no kidding, not one non-WASP in the joint! I feel dirty and disgusted. I have no idea that anyone in here has a clue of this fact, but now that it has been pointed out, it is so very clear. We left just as fast as we could. I will never return.

    My sore head today is a reflection of this place's cheap cocktails. 5 euros a pop before midnight,…read moreyou can't beat that! Great cocktail menu, the bartender I dealt with was charming, he even deviated from the menu to do my favourite cocktail. It's moderately sized, interior is modern, comfy couches. Music is chart, the DJ was abit too volume happy so we had to shout to talk and then we gave up and just focused on drinking the cocktails. At one point I thought I was at convention celebrating the show Sex & The City which then shifted to me thinking I was in a lesbian bar. It was thronged with well done up young women and hardly any men. Boys if you want to score a chick, this is the place for you! Girls if you want to score a chick this also is the place for you but in a very Sex & The City hook up kinda way, that is they will be straight again the next morning. The only reason why I am giving it three stars is that it would not be my scene and the music is too loud but it's a great place to pre-game it with some cheap well made cocktails before hitting another spot.

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    Capitol Lounge - Courtesy of Capitol Lounge website

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    Dandelion - The upstairs bar area (the nightclub is downstairs)

    Dandelion

    2.8(39 reviews)
    0.4 kmSouth Inner City
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    I agree with laura - this is one of those bars you would never even think about going into, until…read moreone day you do... Dandelion reminds me a lot of Cafe En Seine. Its interior is massive and very grandly outfitted, although after the initial 'wow' moment everything seems to take on a bit of a gaudy air. The 5 euro cocktails are fab, and they have drink specials most nights of the week, so this could be a place to go before you really go out. There is a nightclub here, but I can't vouch for its quality. Dandelion also has a very nice restaurant that is suitable for families. This place disappoints a little bit, after giving an amazing first impression, but maybe this is because everyone else in Dublin seems to just walk on by?

    I didn't think Dandelion was any great shakes when I went there for a night out with the girls…read more(Jays, I'm starting to sound like Carrie). It's modern and trendy with plenty of room to mingle but it's not particularly atmospheric or memorable in spite of its 'boutique' claims. I can't imagine ever saying "I'll meet ye in Dandelion later", and I wonder if it has any kind of a regular crowd. That said, €5 for a cocktail in the heart of Dublin is not a bad deal and currently Dandelion are offering to pay the 21.5% VAT on all drinks Monday-Friday, bringing the cost of a pint down to a cool €4.30. Whatever I may say about Dandelion, you'll not get a better deal on the Green and I saw a tanned, chiselled young man handing out flyers to this affect just the other day! We bolted however after about two hours and Dandelion left no great impression except a brief ponder over the wisdom of naming your 'boutique' club after a weed.

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    A Bikini Martini (left) and Cosmopolitan with an orange peel (right).

    Dandelion - The "back area" where the pool table is.

    The "back area" where the pool table is.

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    Pacino's - italian - Updated May 2026

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