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Guilbaud’s Restaurant Dublin – Review

September 15th, 2008 · No Comments

The bread here is delicious! Visitors to this monumentally overpriced and overrated restaurant would do well to remember this and load up early in the meal……If you don’t you’ll be going home hungry and tempted to stop at the first Abrakastaba you pass.

I was compelled to do the sums: you can get a Ryanair flight to Anzio near Rome, stay in a 3star hotel, eat a better meal with less pretentious service, leave a big (by Italian standards) tip and fly home again. As long as you take a bus and not a taxi, you’ll still be ahead.

The food is pretty good, but not at all exceptional. But the worst thing is the portion size is abysmal, I read a review in the Irish Times that said the only people who complain about the portion sizes are country farmers that would be better advised to go where they can get a good feed of spuds. Now I’m a person who has never got good value out of an all-you-can-eat-special, and I weigh in at a miserable 11st @ 5′10″ and I was left ravenous. The bill for dinner for 4 of us over €400.

Avoid like the plague unless you’re an accountant and a Partner with no imagination drags you out to dinner there.

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