L’ecrivain Restaurant

Wow this is amazing
From the minute u walk in to a very warm welcome the décor is modern but classy
Seated at table with a lovely welcome and menu was very interesting
Choose the main menu
Got pork belly as a starter with lobster was very very nice
In between you get a palatte which is lovely
For mains beef, cheek and tongue with mash, again fab
Desert, Irish coffee with Irish cream … Had not the Spanish red wine was over all amazing
It is expensive but you get what you pay for, so this would be a special treat !

I was here with a friend for a company Christmas party, and what a delightful experience!
This restaurant is absolutely beautiful. Lovely food, amazing staff, background piano music playing, and several courses of tiny portions of delicious food.
We had some drinks in the ground level area, where piano was being played. The whole setting was beautiful, and wine glasses never empty. We then went upstairs to our seats, and had a few courses of deliciousness.
The staff are also super helpful and nice. Even though the food is small, there were so many courses that we were stuffed by the end of it.
If you find yourself with a few extra euros this month, you should definitely come here.

Just a spectacular restaurant that ranks with the very best meals I have ever had in the U.S. or abroad.

Taste voucher 9 course taste menu.
The whole experience was excellent. Service and food was incredible.
We’ll be going back next year.
Absolutely loved it.

From the moment you step into the restaurant, every thing was on par with what you’d expect from a Michelin restaurant.
It was very busy for a Wednesday evening. The staff were friendly; the sommelier was very helpful in selecting our bottle of wine for the evening.
Everything we ate was cooked to perfection, I can’t wait to go back again. :)

I was here to experience the new Samsung kitchen dining experience. It is a new room in the restaurant where you can watch the cook being prepared and cooked before your eyes and you get to interact and ask the chefs questions. It is a really cool dining room and experience. Great for foodies. You can see everything live or watch it on a screen as the the cameras broadcast it live. The food is amazing. No wonder it is considered the best restaurant in Dublin and Chef Derry Clarke makes amazing creations. So tasty with the best quality ingredients. This was one meal I will never forget.

If you like your plates large, your food small and have recently came into a large sum of money then L’ecrivain is the restaurant for you.
Ok so the courses might be small but If like me you are having 10 of them and 2 bread baskets (I don’t do things by halves) you most definitely will not starve. I am a big fan of what they conjure up in here. The flavours are great, everything is pretty as a picture and you certainly cannot recreate these meals at home. The restaurant is also packed with friendly staff and you won’t be kept waiting for anything. They also only blinked a little bit when we told them we wouldn’t be having the Foie Gras. Not a problem, we can swap that immediately sir/​madam.
Why 4 stars… not for the first time they shoved me into an empty side room with no other people! I am also not a fan of the tip being included in the bill. I will decide myself if I want to give them a € 30 bonus… ok turns out I did, the staff were fantastic.

This was really quite an experience. It is one of the truly french classy restaurants in Dublin. Would highly recommend for an important customer or a date.
The only downside I would say is that the prices seem a little high for what you are getting.

The food is as good as it gets. I have eaten all over the world and in the best restaurants. I can’t find fault. I would pay twice the price.

Had the absolute pleasure of eating here once. We had a ten course tasting menu. It was honestly one of the nicest meals I’ve ever had. Food, service & ambiance were fabulous. Can’t wait to go back.

My husband and I made a reservation on the very last minute last Saturday 26^th July. Actually we tried to book tables in different restaurants, but they were all booked out.
So, we wanted to book a table for 8pm and the lady said they only could take us at 7:45pm, which was fine for us. When arrived, they brought us straight to our table, they didn’t even ask us if we wanted to have a drink at the bar. Anyway, we ordered our food, we both went for the same… Foie Gras as starter and Lamb for main, and I have to say, that’s was one of the best meal that we ever had in Dublin, the food they serve is absolutely 5 stars… Our dinner was very pleasant and enjoyable, the reason that I don’t give them 5* is because at the very end of our dinner I had ordered my Strawberry and Basil Caviar dessert (amazing) and my husband had ordered an Irish Coffee that he would had never got it if we didn’t asked the waiter, it took about 15 minutes for the coffee to arrive after my dessert and we actually think the staff are not bad, but there is nothing special about them.

I was brought here as a birthday surprise. From the moment we entered, it was amazing. We were a litter early so opted for a drink at the bar. The cocktail menu was classy and understated; as was the pianist who we could hear but took a while to place. It was a lovely pre-​dinner experience.
We enjoyed the 10 course taster menu with accompanying wines. I cannot express how well this was done, everything complemented just as it should. The service was one of the best I’ve experienced, always there when you needed something but fading into the background the rest if the time.
The whole dining experience was just out of this world!

In my head I pretty much hate fine dining. I’m bad at posh. Airs and graces look silly on me, a bit like hair bands or strings of pearls. I spent too many of my college years waitressing to find it impossible not to have to actively resist the ‘help clear the plates’ mechanism that kicks in when the waiter starts to clear the plates. In the calm and beautifully manicured environment of the dining area, my imagination too readily jumps to the frenetic reality of the kitchen, where the mood realistically is about as calm and polished as a drunken sailor in a bar room brawl. I get flashbacks. They are often grim.
But most of all, on the odd occasions I do find myself in fabulous restautantville (work), I feel underwhelmed by the experience, especially on the taste-​bud front.
Not here though. The food was seriously good, the service equal to it, and the dessert chef such a gent that he actually wrote out the recipe for marshmallows for me (strawberry purée in it, delicacy lovers). And yes, I did make them. And yes, they are divine though ok not as pretty or puffy with air as the ones here. But hey, I haven’t sat my Michelin star exams yet so there’s time.
I think this restaurant truly lives up to its reputation — you savour every course, every taste — and the service is friendly yet understated. They take their game really seriously and don’t make more or less of it than it is.
Go on, you’re worth it.*
* Terms and conditions apply. These involve great wealth.

My first ever Michelin Star restaurant.
White linen and silver service, but I wore khakis and shirt with jacket no tie. Totally acceptable as were jeans and a jacket.
We were a party of 12 celebrating my sisters birthday and it was made truly special by this restaurant .
Food was Neuville Cuisine style portions but flavors were unique, special, delicious and memorable.
Well stocked bar and nice roof top patio where we could smoke cigars.
Overall a rave review from me about this place and surprisingly not too stuffy.

My wife & I enjoyed an excellent dining experience here last night. We opted for the 10 course tasting menu with accompanying wines.
Initially we didn’t like the location of the table we were placed at (as I would have been looking at a wall instead of taking in the whole experience of the place) but the friendly staff facilitated a quick move to a cosier table enabling us both to take in the full ambience and atmosphere of the restaurant.
Martina the sommelier presented us with each wine and gave excellent descriptions and backgrounds to them all.
The food was very well presented and the menu well thought through — again the staff gave good explanations upon presentation.
An excellent restaurant & dining experience and we’ll be back :-)

We arrived early, however we opted to go straight to our table. We went up one level to our table which was situated just under the mezzanine level. I was eating in a group of 11 (including a 10 week old baby).
The waiters were very nice and the service was efficient. We did receive an amuse bouche which was lovely (can’t remember what it was). To start I had pigeon, primarily because it is not often that you see it on menus. It was as good as pigeon gets…
We also had another amuse bouche between starter and main, which was a blend of cucumber, lemon and some other things. It was grand — not my type of thing to be honest!
For my main I had fillet of beef which was superb I must say. The fillet had a very rich, full flavor and texture was firm but tender.
Overall portion size wasn’t as small as a lot of Michelin star restaurants but if you like a good sunday roast this isn’t the place for you, it is however if flavor is what you’re after.
For desert I had the chocolate dish, slightly too rich in my opinion.
To finish we had coffee and Petit Fours (which were interesting). The coffee was a good sweet blend.
There are better Michelin starred restaurants, however the ambiance of the place, flavor of the food, friendliness of the staff and overall experience has led me to give this place 5 stars. I thoroughly enjoyed the night (which was a birthday celebration) and would return again!

This is going to be a very short review, as someone who does not give 5 stars lightly, it really has to be something special ??? Well it is !! The food is the best I have ever tasted. From the moment you step inside the door, you are brought along a fantastic gastronomic journey with every course explained clearly, this restaurant is in such demand I can only get to book once every 2 months, so beware don’t leave until the last minute, but it’s well worth the wait. !!!

My wife and I visited this restaurant recently. We went for the early sitting at 7pm, as were offered this or 9.30pm by the receptionist when we booked.
We were looking forward to the experience; this is a restaurant with a very good reputation, and having read the reviews online my expectations were high. Thankfully I was not disappointed.
I will start by saying that this is not the best restaurant I have been to, but the service was by far the best I have seen in Dublin. There is not a huge choice on the menu (s), and I believe they concentrate more on quality. I ordered from the € 65 set menu, and my wife ordered a main course from the a la carte menu.
We received several amuse-​bouche between courses, which consisted of a sweet corn veloute, apple jelly with thyme sorbet, and a coconut and chocolate mousse. All were delicious!
On to the dinner itself, I had confit of salmon, which was unusual, but really retained the salmon taste, the belly of pork which was accompanied by various other pork offerings, all very good. (Best crackling I ever had!). The desert was chocolate cheery cake.
Food was great, presentation beautiful, service excellent and the restaurant itself was very pleasant. We didn’t see the hosts though, and the portions were as you would expect — small…

In a nutshell:
Food:5 stars
Service: 4.5 stars
P/​C: 5+stars
Overall, I loved l’Ecrivain, for its exquisite food, its refreshing and open-​minded décor, and of course its service. This was my second to last day in Dublin for work and I was faced with a dilemma — I had a booking at Thornton’s that night (which turned out to be disastrous) but wanted to squeeze in l’Ecrivain at some point — SO, I did a little bit of research and found out that they have these amazing lunch deals (3 courses for 25 euros!!!)
So, I wrapped up my morning work a bit early and walked over to where the restaurant was. I was greeted by the maitre d’ who took my coat (yes!) and was offered whether I wanted to go up to my table immediately or have a drink at the bar. What do you reckon I did — have a drink at the bar of course! The bar was fantastic — a little grand piano, a small wine cellar, plenty of seating and this intimately cozy looking bar. The bartender offered me an Estrella beer to start with and I relaxed at the bar for about 10 minutes.
The dining room is located upstairs — the main dining room is open-​space, white and wood colors balanced, and there is a loft area which looked more intimate and warm. The sommelier/​server came and offered the menu and I went with the 25 euro lunch menu with the duck liver terrine, cod and the dessert. I also added a scallops starter as another appetizer.
Food highlights:
1. Amuse-​bouches were wonderful — the pumpkin veloute and the monkfish salad were delectable.
2. The duck liver was prepared very well — the balsamic reduction was a nice balance.
3. The scallops with the white bean sauce and the ham terrine was very nice. The scallops were sweet and with a very firm texture — one of the best scallop dishes I’ve ever had.
4. Apple sage sherbet to cleanse my palate…
5. The cod — my my, the fish was so tender and buttery, the skin was crisp and delicious. The chorizo minestrone and the anchovy tempura accompaniments were AWESOME. Simply well done.
6. Spiced plum and white chocolate cheesecake was very good — I just wish that I had more time to enjoy!
Really — this restaurant is TOP notch from food, service and value perspectives. It totally deserves another Michelin star.

So, you are hungry and you have far too much money in your pocket and you want to address both erm. ‘problems’ …then boy do I have the answer for you!
L’Ecrivain is a Michelin starred gaff (2 I think) serving up some of the best grub in town, the portions are not huge but you rarely leave hungry… just broke, and you can probably live with that unless you really went in expecting McDonalds.
One of my favourite features of the place (apart from the dining room on lots of levels, balconies, hide-​aways etc… and the rather nice bar/​piano room downstairs) is their talent for getting good staff. There was (and I hope she is still there) a sommelier there, a short blond girl full of life whose knowledge of wine was such that she could tell you what wine to have with your chicken McNuggets — and she’d be right!, quite a talent to have!
Dublin Bay prawns have always been one of the restaurants signature dishes, and indeed they are nice but their foie gras is also excellent and worth a bash!