Just around the corner from the main Harold’s Cross road, this neighbourhood restaurant has been popular since the day it opened.
It’s small and cosy, just two rooms with tables along the walls - and there’s a definite nod across the Atlantic in the food offered in this pleasant and very busy spot.
The San Franciscan fish stew - Cioppino - and the New York strip dry aged steak from Pat McLoughlin Butchers - are just two highlights from the dinner menu. And of course, there are lots of Irish offerings too - red wine braised oxtail, for example, and Liberties Pale Ale fish & chips.
Lunch has the usual soup and sandwiches/burgers but for those who plan to have a leisurely afternoon relaxing over a sociable bite, there's also the shared meat board with dips and flatbread. Good value too, at just €10pp, including a glass of wine.
Staff are great - friendly, helpful and efficient no matter how busy they are. And that includes the extremely popular Sunday brunch time, when there can be a queue and a 20 minute wait for treats like short stack with maple syrup, crab Benedict, or a tasty breakfast plate of the Full Irish with Brady’s sausages. But it’s worth waiting for and, meawhile, you can relax over a drink - a Bellini, Bloody Mary or a glasses of Prosecco should down very well.
Beckett & Bull is quite the spot, especially at weekends.
