Where to go for a Sunday roast in Dublin

For some reason, Dublin has historically been lacking in Sunday roast culture, particularly when compared to our friends across the water. There's always been those fighting the good fight to keep us in beef striploin and roasties over a pint and the Sunday papers, but many tourist traps do a grave disservice to the very idea, with mealy overcooked beef, soggy roasties and veg that looks like it was cooked yesterday. Dublin's roast game however is very much on the up, and it seems like Sunday lunch is finally getting the treatment it deserves. Here are the places to make a beeline for the next time you're raring for a roast...

City Centre

Caribou, Stephen Street Lower

It's hard to believe that Stephen Street bar Caribou's Sunday roast has only been in existence since the end of 2024, such is its benchmark status as the one to beat. While the McLoughlin's beef roast with all the bits has terrifyingly gone from €19.50 to €28 in just one year (maybe it was under priced to start with), it's not putting the punters off, with buttermilk chicken, bacon and cabbage, and a great veggie roast with celeriac also featuring. You can't book so get there early.

Hawksmoor, College Green

The Hawksmoor Sunday Roast also sits at the top of the leader board, with dry-aged beef rump, beef-dripping roast potatoes, Yorkshire pudding, roasted carrots, buttered greens, roasted garlic, and bone marrow gravy for €28, with optional add-on sides like cauliflower cheese. If you've got more cash to spare you can pick a sharing steak from the blackboard (they recommend prime rib or chateaubriand) and add on all the trimmings for €7 per person.

FX Buckley (Dublin 2, Dublin 7 and Monkstown)

FX Buckley offer their famous Sunday roast in all of their venues - Crow Street in Temple Bar, Pembroke Street near St Stephen's Green, the Bull & Castle near Christchurch, Ryan's in Stoneybatter, and FX Buckley in Monkstown. For €28 they're serving roast rib of beef (cooked medium) with Yorkshire puddings, mash, duck fat roast potatoes, confit shallots, roast carrots, tenderstem broccoli and gravy. Bloody Buckleys, made with spicy F.X. Buckley seasoning, Dingle vodka, Dillisk and Buckfast are €11, and you won't go wrong with either.

The Legal Eagle, Inn's Quay

The Legal Eagle have a (current) choice of Black Angus striploin, Pigs on the Green pork belly, or chicken for their Sunday roast, still at last year's prices of €24 - €27. All are served with roasties, green cabbage, honeyed carrots and parsnips, turnip and carrot purée, stuffing, Yorkshire puddings and gravy. We gave it the once over last year and the root veg was the surprising star - have a read here.

Bloom Brasserie

If it's good enough for Orlando Bloom it's definitely good to enough to park our butts in for a feed of beef striploin, rib-eye steak, or free-range chicken with all the bits in Bloom Brasserie. There's bites and starters too if for some insane reason you have space for more than just the roast, and it's mandatory to start with a 'Bloomin' Mary' with Dingle vodka, tomato juice, lemon, Bloom hot sauce, Worcestershire, black pepper, olive juice and celery salt (with an optional add on of an oyster).

Searson's, Baggot Street

Searson's on Baggot Street have a roast on EVERY DAY - this is not a drill! Seven days a week you can get a half roast chicken, striploin of beef, or nut roast with an assortment of sides from €24 - €28.50. The best thing about Sundays in here though, is the live jazz accompaniment. Grab a paper and a comfy chair and settle in for the afternoon.

Wilde, The Westbury

In the "very spenny" category sits the Sunday roast at Wilde in the five-star Westbury Hotel, with Irish beef carved tableside for €38, up to €46 for herb-crusted Wicklow lamb with mint jus. They're all served with roast potatoes, garlic mash, glazed carrots, green beans & confit shallots, and you can retire to The Sidecar afterwards for a digestif to help it all go down.

Bovinity, Capel Street

A rare Saturday roast option as well as Sunday, steakhouse Bovinity unsurprisingly stick to beef with all the trimmings for €25. You can also go for a pricier cut from the blackboard with the same sides, and tack on even more sides and sauces if that's not enough for you.

Fade Street Social, Fade Street

The Sunday roast at Fade Street Social is served until 6pm, with out of the ordinary options like stuffed roasted pork with puff pastry stuffing; chicken, ham hock, duck liver and tarragon pie; and a vegetarian pie for your token friend who doesn't want to be left out. They range from €22 - €26.50 for meat making them very well priced in today's market, and there's a million and one other things on the menu so roast haters will also be kept happy.

Brookwood, Baggot Street

Brookwood on Baggot Street is another great option when you just want the classic striploin, and whereas when we last updated this article we called it one of the priciest roasts in town at €29, it's now sitting squarely in the middle. Their Irish beef comes with Yorkshire puddings, roast veg, mash potato and red wine jus, and comes medium rare (the correct way to cook roast beef).

The Seafood Café, Temple Bar

A Sunday roast for a pescatarian? Surely doesn't Dublin have everything these days. The Sunday lunch at The Seafood Café featuring whole fish cooked over coals (like rack of halibut with chicken butter), with sides like duck fat roasties and coal-fired Brussel sprouts. You need to go all in on this one with a drink, snacks, main, sides and dessert, and it's priced at €65 - €85pp depending on what you pick.

South Dublin

Ashton's, Clonskeagh

All the furore over Ashton's in Clonskeagh being a direct copy of The Devonshire in London hasn't seem to hurt bookings, even if their Sunday roast is one of the most expensive around at a whopping €35. There's roast rib of beef, Yorkshire puddings, duck fat roasties, confit carrots, cabbage and bacon and jus, or you can pick steak, pork chops or monkfish from the à la carte at similarly high prices. A great one when someone else is paying.

The Vintage Inn, Irishtown

The Vintage Inn serve their Sunday roast every week from 1pm, with a choice of roast top rib of Irish beef, or free-range roast chicken supreme, with creamy mash, duck fat roasties, herby stuffing, roast carrots, broccoli and gravy - all for €18, which is some of the best value going. In case that's not enough, there's picky bits to start with like cheese & onion crisps with cheesy bacon sauce, or a wedge of Cashel blue with Nessa’s Royal Canal honey & soda bread toasts, and the Guinness is always good.

Lottie's, Rathmines

The Sunday roast at Lottie's is always Pat McLoughlin's sirloin of roast beef with Yorkshire pudding, duck fat potatoes, carrots, red wine jus and horseradish cream. It's one of the priciest on this list at €30, but they also do €10 corkage on Sundays so bring your own bottle and offset some of the cost (not available in December).

The Dunmore, Rathmines

Beautiful Rathmines bar and restaurant The Dunmore launched with a Sunday roast offering from the off, with a choice of dry-aged roast beef with buttermilk Yorkshire puddings (€28.50), or roast free-range chicken with onion and sage stuffing (€25). All come with duck fat roast potatoes, seasonal greens, confit garlic & gravy, and art appreciaters will love the gallery-like feel to the plush space.

The Old Spot, Beggar's Bush

It's Pat McLoughlin's chicken (€28) or beef (€32) at The Old Spot on Sundays, all served with duck fat roasties, roast carrots, cabbage and peas, cauliflower cheese, stuffing, and gravy. It's one of the few places around with a vegetarian roast option (€24), and if someone in your party isn't into roasts there's a full à la carte menu to choose from, in cosy pub surroundings.

Suertudo, Ranelagh

Sick of all the beef, Yorkshires and roasties? Suertudo are here to save the day, with their Mexican Sunday roast featuring picanha with chimichurri (€29), porchetta with pineapple (€27), or chicken with tomatillos and black beans (€26). Add on starters and sides if you've got an insatiable post-Saturday night appetite, and the cocktails continue on the Mexican theme.

Brighton Road, Foxrock

The €35/€42 two/three-course Sunday lunch at Brighton Road in Foxrock features a roast sirloin of beef with Yorkshire puddings and roasties for a €5 supplement, or you can go rogue with fish & chips, chicken schnitzel or spinach and ricotta ravioli. There's a generous amount of starters and desserts to choose from so rest assured everyone will find something you like.

The Eagle, Glasthule

Under the same ownership as Ashton's in Clonskeagh, The Eagle in Glasthule serves four different roasts of a Sunday - roast beef, roast chicken, roast turkey, and porchetta (priced from €19 - €24). They all come with mash, roast potato, Yorkshire puddings, vegetables and gravy, and if you bag a table in the conservatory on a sunny day you can experience the compelling juxtaposition of a Sunday roast in sunny climes.

The Butcher Grill, Ranelagh

Meat specialists The Butcher Grill (it's in the name) have three roasts on the go every Sunday. Pick from Irish beef striploin with horseradish (€31), corn-fed chicken with chicken sauce (€26), or free-range pork rack with apple sauce (€26). All come with Yorkshire puddings, duck fat roasties, gravy, stuffing, peas and carrots, and you can start with seafood starters and get stuck into the cocktails if you're settling in for the afternoon.

Oxhorn Grill, Dublin 4

Dublin 4's Oxhorn Grill keeps it simple with chicken or beef for their Sunday roast, but they've got some of the best prices in Dublin, with striploin with red wine sauce for €24, or half roast chicken for €21 (it's not free-range though). They both come with Yorkshire puddings, duck fat roasties, sage and onion stuffing, and sautéed peas and carrots, or you can do like the other steak houses and ditch the roast beef for a sharing steak.

Eleven, Loughlinstown

From the same group as The Butcher Grill (as well as 777 and Dillinger's), Eleven has injected life into this site in Loughlinstown on the edge of the N11. The Sunday roast here has the same options as The Butcher Grill - beef (€31), corn-fed chicken (€26) or free-range pork rack (€27). All come with Yorkshire puddings, duck fat roasties, gravy, stuffing, peas & carrots, and the wines and cocktails shouldn't be missed, so best to travel here by bus, or bring a designated driver.

Bresson, Monkstown

Bresson in Monkstown offer a roast as part of their Sunday lunch menu, with two courses for €39.95 and three for €44.95. It's a "roast of the day" around here, which comes with duck fat roasties, gravy and veg, and the rest of the menu is a lesson in French classics, like moules marinieres, coquille St. Jacques and beef bourguigon.

North Dublin

Nancy Hands, Parkgate Street

Traditional Irish pub Nancy Hands serves up plates of roast beef with mashed potato, roast potato, roast carrots, broccoli and Yorkshire puddings each Sunday for €28, AND there's either soup of the day or a Bailey's cheesecake included. That's the only roast on the list with an added extra.

L Mulligan Grocer, Stoneybatter

L Mulligan Grocer serve their Sunday roast from 13:30 until they're sold out, with a different meat each week, and a vegetarian option. Each comes with seasonal veg, roasties, mash and gravy, and they're limited in number - first come, first served. You'll need a free-range Irish pork scotch egg to start.

Old Street, Malahide

Sunday lunch at Old Street in Malahide has been a thing since day one, with Roast Rib of Beef and all the trimmings for €26, or the less classic dry-aged Higgins beef burger with hand cut chips. There's also fish, chicken and pasta/risotto so plenty of choice.

The Coachman's Inn, Cloghran

We wouldn't have considered ourselves carvery connoisseurs - in fact we were quite happy to leave them behind in the 90's with Glenroe and dial-up internet - but Emer & Esther's Sunday Roast podcast had us wondering what we were missing. Their trip to The Coachman's Inn near the airport drew us in with talk of home potato croquettes "the size of sliotars', expert gravy ladling, and Emer giving it a massive 9/10 scoring, and with a full portion €14.95-€15.95, and a half €10.90, it's one of the better value options around for the very hungry.

Fagan's, Drumcondra

The other Northside carvery to beat is found in the pub made famous by Bertie Ahern - Fagan's in Drumcondra. €15.50 will get you a plate with beef, turkey, ham, multiple types of potatoes and all the veg you can handle, and it's the loveliest pub to while away a Sunday in.

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