Where to find a supreme salad in Dublin

Lisa Cope
Jul 23, 2025
4 min read

We all know that salad and sunshine go together like… well, tasty cold food and hot weather. We’re officially at that time of the year where eating salad for at least one meal a day stops being an unchecked item on your to-do list, and turns into an activity to plan your day, and Insta stories, around. In an attempt to appease the Weather Gods, here’s our (and your) favourite places to eat salad in Dublin...

Sprout, various locations in Dublin

Hands down, the most loved place in Dublin for a salad by our readers is salad bar Sprout, which now has seven locations across Dublin. The Bombay and charred chicken taco bowls get a lot of love, but the meat-free options also make Sprout stand out, with the tofu satay and chick-please bowls singled out as two of the best.

Tang, three city centre locations

Coming in a close second was Tang, whose selection of daily changing salads start at €8.95, and include a "fresh", "roast" and a "grain" option. You can do a protein add on with hummus, chicken, lamb or beans, and more extras like tzatziki and focaccia if you're feeling insatiable. Find them on Abbey Street, Dawson Street and Cumberland Place.

Tiller + Grain

Say salad in Dublin and someone will shout "TILLER + GRAIN". Their daily changing salads are a riot of colour, texture and flavour, and you won't find any boring options in here. While known for being "not cheap" (a salad box with protein will set you back €16-€17), they are known for being very, very good.

Tír Deli, Hatch Street Upper

Seasonal Irish deli Tír exists to connect their customers with the farms and food producers they source their ingredients from. It's not just about the feelgood factor though - these guys know what they're doing when it comes to maximising flavour. They've always got two seasonal bowls on the go, usually one with Feighcullen free-range chicken, and the summer veggie option comes with Toonsbridge halloumi, smoked tomato pesto, summer salsa, marinated egg, roasted veg, hot honey and seasonal leaves. With both bowls coming in at €12 this is great value for premium produce.

Caribou's Caesar Salad

Caribou's Caesar salad is a masterclass in the genre. Every element on the plate - Romaine lettuce, Grana Padano, Caesar dressing and thin, crispy croutons - is perfection, with just the right amount of everything. You can add grilled or fried chicken, but it doesn't need it. On our last visit it was €11, or €15 with chicken.

The Old Spot's Caesar Salad

Over in Dublin 4 there's another Caesar salad grabbing headlines at everyone's favourite gastro pub, The Old Spot. Theirs has roast chicken, crispy Parma ham, aged Parmesan and croutons, and while it's €20, this is a dine in and sit back affair.

Fairmental, Dublin 4

Fairmental near Grand Canal Dock have replaced soup with panzanella-style salads for the summer months, and we're hearing all the positive noises. They're also serving a new prawn cocktail bowl, with wakame, sesame, confit almonds slow-cooked in garlic, and a marie-rose sauce containing prawn shell mayo and preserved lemons. That one we're gona need to try.

The Fumbally, Dublin 8

There always a lovely salad line up at The Fumbally which changes day to day, but you can expect the most seasonal veg, local cheese, homemade bread, and veggie protein for €14.50 (on our last visit). You'll feel so good after eating one that you can totally justify one of their doughnuts afterwards.

Honey Truffle Kitchen, Pearse Street

Honey Truffle Kitchen is a magnet for salad lovers, with their vivid bar capable of turning the heads of even the most ardent sandwich fans. Salads are as you would expect seasonal, with watermelon and feta a recent summer addition, but it's all health-filled and flavour-packed. Salad boxes come in different sizes with optional dips, toppings, seeds and cheese, and you can also add protein if you're not hitting your macros.

Honest To Goodness, The Liberties

Liberties Café Honest to Goodness are not phoning it in with the salads. Their "Legend Salad" started out as a special, but customers demanded it was on the menu every day. With all the veg, kalamata olives, feta, seeds, beans, honey-dijon dressing and your choice of either chicken or hummus, we can see why these events unfolded. There's also the 'Peruvian trout' with lentils, corn and tiger milk dressing, and chicken Caesar with roast thighs, Pecorino and a crouton crumb.

Emer's Kitchen, Leeson Street

The Emer's Kitchen salad bar is legendary around Leeson Street, with few cafés seeming to elicit such a dedicated, heartfelt following from customers. They change daily but you can get three salads (they say they use the term loosely) in a box with meat, chicken, salmon or frittata for €9.50, or €12.90 with protein.

Shouk, Drumcondra

The Shouk mezze is legitimately legendary, with nothing changing in the past few years, and nothing ever needing to - there would be a riot, and we'd be top of the queue. The aubergine and red pepper, the Morroccan carrot, the roasted cauliflower with tahini, the tabouleh... Not to mention the Shouk salad with sumac and fried pita bites - getting your five a day has never tasted so good.

Nutbutter, Grand Canal Dock and Smithfield

Nutbutter serve superfood bowls in super pretty surroundings in both of their locations, northside and south. It's very easy to be vegan or vegetarian in here, but just as easy to add chicken or tuna sashimi to their warm bowls. It's recommended we eat 30 plants a week - you easily get 10 in one bowl in here - and soon you'll be able to get their goodness in Dundrum too!

As One

As One on City Quay has a menu focused on gut-health as a way of improving overall wellness, and their salad bar serves local organic produce from McNally, Abercorn and Beechlawn organic farms (with properly seaonal veg) from Monday - Thursday. There's always three salads with house dips/hummus/kimchi/pickles/pesto, and the option to add protein like Goatsbridge trout and Rings Farm free range chicken. A small box costs €6.50, while a large will get you the lot plus protein for €13.50 - it's hard to argue with that value for this quality of ingredients.