Angelina’s Restaurant

Gosh, I really wanted to like this place, there aren’t a lot of great options for food in the area, and Angelina’s looked promising. So much so that despite numerous (increasingly terrible) experiences, we kept coming back out of hope. But after a few particularly bad experiences recently, my verdict is finally in.
The positive is that the ambiance is nice, and while cocktails have been very hit and miss, overall they’ve been ok. The first time I got the crab and lobster salad it was really delicious, the second time it was drenched in a brown sauce that I think was a mistake.
The primary issue here is the low quality of the service and standards. Last week I had the most disgusting looking pizza I’ve every seen served to me at Angelina’s. It was pure slop surrounded by a soppy greasy crust. When I immediately pointed this out to the perpetually flustered waitress, she asked what the problem was. I told her that it wasn’t a pizza and that they’d need to make it again. She asked if I just wanted it put back in the oven, and I said absolutely do not just put it back in the oven, it needs to be made again. 20 minutes later (my partner’s meal was already complete) she returned with the exact same pizza from before, now over cooked around the edges and still a pile of slop in the middle. I told her to forget it and just remove the pizza from the bill, we were ready to leave.
Today, we decided to extend one final olive branch and brave their new coffee kiosk and bakery that’s opened around the corner. The coffee was weak and generic, sandwich was stale and drenched in overpowering garlic sauce, and their ‘fresh baked’ loaf of bread was hard as a rock. When I challenged that the loaf was fresh, they admitted that it was from the day before. I draw the line at selling day-​old-​bread, that’s gross, and pointless. All day old loaves are stale, everyone knows this. What bakery would sell stale bread, and what customer would ever return after being sold it?! Clearly they don’t care.
Shame.

We arrived a couple minutes before our booking and were asked to wait at the bar. We sipped on our drinks and before we knew it 10 minutes had gone by… then 20… then 30… and a few minutes after that we were FINALLY taken to our table. More than a 30 minute wait with a reservation is a bit ridiculous.
Luckily after the initial wait our waitress was pretty prompt. To start I had the fennel pork orecchiette and it was good but not terribly memorable. J had the seafood tagliolini and his brother had the goat cheese tortellini. Again, good but not great.
For mains we had a variety with the sea bass, pan roasted halibut, roast chicken and the Irish rib eye. My halibut itself was tasty but the accompaniments were quite bland. Reviews from the other three were no different.
For whatever reason we decided to stick around for dessert. The vanilla honeycomb sundae with toasted pecans and salted caramel sauce sounded incredible so we each ordered one. It was basically a scoop of SuperValu vanilla ice cream with two pecans and bits of stale biscuit for a cool € 7.95 each.
The space is really cool and has an interesting atmosphere that initially seemed posh but quickly deteriorated to pretentious. Pretentious is fine as long as you have the food to back it up!

That wasn’t very impressive. I went with my friend for a lunch because the place seems very promising. I had a salmon served with mashy and overcooked lentils, and my fried had a burger. I’m not sure if that’s a good idea to serve salmon with the skin and the sauce. Either make it crispy or take of the skin. Also, something weird and brow was covering the top of all. My fried had a burger and it was ok. I think place is bit overpriced and I guess more suitable for a drinks than food.

A new Italian place with a New York style design. Good for group dinners. I had goats cheese tortellini, I think it was good. Not a big pizza fun so can’t really compare to anything. A nice selection of wine. Tip is included in the bill. Didn’t have a single problem with the staff. I would come back.

Easy to spend money here! The pizzas are pricey like Paulies, but not even as nice as Milano. With two better pizza restaurants only minutes away, why are they serving pizza? Better margin? The room is swanky; trying hard to be London, New York and … don’t laugh … Renards from the 90s! Lots of staff, none working too hard. So, why all of four stars? There’s a great bresaola starter with clementine, burratta and chill honey. It’s so promising, I’d come back to try the also pricey mains. Nice craft beer. And it’s close to my sister’s work. Few of you will have the same listed in your pro/​con list. Your mileage may vary! Did I mention it’s a little pricey?

This must be one of the worst pizza places in Dublin. A fancy menu doesn’t make a good pizza — mine was ridiculously dry (the goat cheese one) my friends (wild mushroom) a bit better — but neither of us were impressed. This just reminded us of frozen Dr. Oetker Ristorante with fancy ingredients. Too much salt — this pizza experience broke my heart.
Two other friends ordered burgers — again — dry and very small portion of meat, plate full of fries to make up for the small burger (15 €…)They didn’t like it.
The good things:
Toscana Zuppa — tasty, but I’ve never tried it anywhere else — so I can’t compare.
Parmesan fries — good.
Service — good.
I will not come back.

A welcome addition to the Lower Baggot area, located on the canal with a nice outside area on the canal itself.
I’ve been in for dinner and brunch — both time have been worth while.
You don’t just have to eat, there is a nice bar which you can sit up at and enjoy some nice cocktails or a nice draft pint.
Food! Co’mon, thats why we are here!
Brunch, Benedicts! what else? I went for the Angelina, maple glazed pork belly and sweat potato cubes. The eggs were seriously on the money, and the pork belly had a lovely sweet smoked flavour from it which went seriously well with the hollandaise sauce! my wife ordered the Crab cakes, pink grapefruit & avocado chilli kale benedict — the crab cakes them selves were very nice and again the egg were perfect. the only think I thought was a misfit was the grapefruit, just not sure where it fits in with the dish.
The second time we came back was for dinner. I order the Orecchiette, fennel pork, swiss chard, parmesan & fennel pollen pasta. so good on so many levels! seriously! enjoyed it with a nice glass of house red and I was not disappointed at all. I was stuffed when finished.
The staff are very nice, quick to get to you as is the food which is nice.
This will be a regular place for us and I’d highly recommend it to a friend for a nice casual meal or as a nice treat with the better half, the menu offers both the budget option and the higher end option, both value for money.

We headed here for brunch however they were serving lunch even though it was a bank holiday. The hostess gave us a really warm welcome. We sat to a gorgeous booth over looking the canal. Really nice interior. I had a pizza which was lovely however it needed to be a little crispier. I had food food envy when I seen the burger will try it the next time I’m back. The cocktails looked divine. The service was great and one to definitely try.

Pulled lamb pizza was absolutely amazing! Really loved the ambience as well, very cool. Will definitely be back

New restaurant/​bar to join the upper Baggot Street area and boy am I delighted! It’s a very big, spacious restaurant offering a few different type of seating /​dining areas plus with a terrace overlooking the canal, when summer comes around… The seats on the terrace will be like gold!
There is a great bar area so if you’re not stopping for food… It’s still a very welcoming bar which you can enjoy a drink without having to actual dine here however, if you do decide to dine… You won’t regret it!
Been twice now, 1^st time I had the pulled lamb pizza which was so god dam tasty; wood fire oven pizza made in a space which is open for you to see the chef prep you pizza. My husband had a pasta dish and it was absolutely delicious, best example of pasta I’ve had in Dublin in such a long time.
2^nd visit was for brunch… And loved it! They have a great selection of benedicts, then all the usual faves like french toast, pancakes, etc.
Staff are very friendly and accommodating, in one instance, we ordered a dessert however when it arrived it was a panacotta however, we hadn’t seen or maybe noticed that it was chilli infused and whilst we enjoy spicy food it was a little overpowering. The waitress noticed we hadn’t finished it and asked if everything was ok, before we knew it she was off talking to the chef, confirmed it was chilli infused and offered another dessert, then comp’d it off our bill and this was without us asking or pushing, she was just so prompt and efficient… For me, this is customer service at its finest!
So 2 visits down, looking forward to my 3^rd already :-)