Best Restaurants for Outdoor Dining in Rathmines

Richmond Restaurant - Portobello Dublin. Last night the team produced the best meal we've had so far in England and Ireland. (Travelling four nations in the Christmas period) Beautiful, confident, bold and complex, all in good measure. The restaurant has been in operation for about nine years and is a well oiled machine. If you're anywhere near Dublin then seek this place out.

We arrived early for our booking and had drinks in the stylish upstairs bar before being brought to our table in the buzzing main restaurant area. We had the Christmas set menu, which had interesting and original mouth-watering fish, meat and vegetarian choices, including venison (which we chose), and thankfully not a turkey or ham in sight. The staff were very welcoming, and the service was speedy, and professional. This is a bright, sophisticated, modern restaurant, with excellent food and a great atmosphere. A great choice for date night or dinner with a group of friends. Highly recommended.

Busy time of year, restaurant was packed but the service was great and the food was really good. Would recommend

Excellent food and value, but service was a bit slow on a busy night. Also had pints on the menu but then were not actually able to serve them in the restaurant.

The Festive Lunch Menu at e55 was well thought & varied. Our party of 4 enjoyed the lunch very much. We had 2 bottles of wine. At our spend level I was disappointed when we were put on notice to vacate our table & presented with our bill. Our sitting was at 1pm & at 3.15pm when I was still drinking my coffee we vacated our table as requested. We were asked if we would like a table downstairs in the bar to complete our outing but the moment had passed and we said our goodbyes. It is a very large restaurant & I did not see a line of guests waiting to take our table.