Serving delicious modern but classic cuisine, One Pico is a small restaurant tucked away near St. Stephen’s Green. Run by chef Eamonn O’Reilly, this award-winning restaurant is perfect for casual lunches and formal dinners. Get a table in the old-school dining room and try the onion risotto or the braised pork neck.

This elegant bistro in the city center is a dependable choice for a great meal and an exhaustive wine list, some of which the restaurant directly imports into Ireland. There’s a pan-European menu at play at Peploe’s, where you can sample Italy and France along with Ireland in one meal. Start with a beef carpaccio and then go for the monkfish with the perfect glass of Pinot Bianco, and it’s like you’ve traveled all over Europe without ever leaving Dublin. Be warned that portions are quite large.

This two-Michelin-star restaurant (the only one in Ireland to earn the distinction) inside the Merrion Hotel has been wildly popular since opening in 1981. Chef Guillaume Lebrun maintains a regularly updated menu with plenty of international references using local ingredients. You can order a la carte or try the tasting menus (starting from four-course spreads to eight-course entire-table feasts).

When you walk into this restaurant, the first thing you see is the chef/owner preparing meals in the open kitchen. With a simple but modern small menu and wine list, the restaurant features dishes that change daily, incorporating only the freshest ingredients. Try the duck leg with roasted potatoes and artichokes or the crabmeat with tomatoes, shallots and fresh anchovy.

Named after the Yeats poem, this café above the bookstore of the same name and acclaim has been a long-standing Irish favorite. Winding Stair is always buzzing with locals-in-the-know, but there’s still a homey ambience that makes the restaurant feel like your own neighborhood discovery. Its menu of simple Irish food is packed with satisfying homegrown recipes. The Irish seafood chowder gets a slightly spiced up flourish with chorizo, and the butternut squash pancake with goat’s curd, kale stew and tomato sauce is the perfect vegetarian comfort dish. All of this plus more is wonderfully complemented with a fabulous international wine list and great Irish service.