One Pico

There is a Nice restaurant in Dublin! If you have a dinner, you should make a reservation, and you should dress up! :)
Foods is so nice! And also cocktails and wine is good! Stuffs is kindly. Restrooms is clean.

This has to be my favorite place to dine in Dublin… By far. It had everything going for it, from stupendous service, great ambiance, terrific food, good wine, and great value. I went for the surprise tasting menu with a wine pairing which came in under € 100 which is a far better value than Patrick Guillbaud. The amuse bouche of the beetroot and goats cheese was so imaginative and delicious. Then came this super pork belly and scallops dish that had so much flavor to highlight the proteins. Then came the piece de resistance., the foie gras with rhubarb chutney and this bone marrow thing., I had a mini out of body experience. Never had i experience such a heavenly experience on a plate. Then a palate cleanser of mandarin ice, which wa delicious and refreshing. Then a perfectly cooked hake followed by a rich and decadent chocolate dessert. All the wines were paired nicely with the entrees. Every time I stepped away from my table my napkin was folded nicely as all nice establishments do! I love love love this place. I hope nothing changes about it.

If you want to be spoiled rotten this is the place to go.
From start to finish everything is about perfection, design, service and a hint of art.
We started with a glass of Prosecco which went down easy and hit the spot. This was followed by an amuse-​bouche of roast chicken mousse with onion jelly. I had the langoustine risotto as starter. After there was the pallet cleanser of apple and celery sorbet with orange jelly. Next up the main course. It was veal steak with a side of green beans. Then came a petit –four of honeycomb and caramel ice cream with a chocolate waffle. THEN came the dessert, it was lemon posset.
This meal was the most incredible experience in dining I’ve ever had. It’s too bad I can’t give 6 stars it’s THAT GOOD. Sensational!

That place is amazing!!! Perfection — in food, design, service.
I had cured salmon for starter, wow– the salmon amazing but also the avocado and lime mouse, just perfect balance.
For main I had venison fillet with squash purée, slow cooked pear and onion — Can I please get it again!!!
Desert to die for — hot chocolate fondant with gingerbread ice cream, the fondant was so soft — I only had it in that quality in La Maison (restaurant in D2) before. I didn’t needed to eat all of it, but hey how can I not!!!
We were a group of 10 and everything went smooth, no service delay, no mistakes, nothing.
I love this place and yes — I defo recommend it and will be back, soon!

Formal dining in Dublin. They had a three course price fixed meal. I had crispy pork belly, which was good. The foie gras tartine was really good. It was a nice quiet evening. Good place to have a romantic evening,

I was here with my wife on vacation a couple weeks ago.
My main criticism is that it is one of those restaurants that place too much attention on presentation, at the cost of portion size and occasionally taste.
Service was excellent.
Location is excellent — tucked away on a quiet side street.
Excellent wine list as well.
We had as starters:
* Liscannor Crab (avacado/​eel/​caviar/​aioli).
This is emblematic of my complaint. We received either two or three tiny cylinders of foodstuff, roughly 3.5−4 centimeters in length, and about ¾−1 centimeter in diameter. The crab was inside. A microscopic sliver of eel was on one end (ie, 1 cm, by 2 mm, by 2mm), with about 10 – 15 caviar eggs. The taste was rather, the only thing sticking out being the tiny bit of eel.
However, there was a great deal of effort put into the presentation, with artful dabs and whirls of aioli and avacado purree.
For 15.5 EURO, I would have preferred more emphasis on the taste and amount of food, and far less on arrangement.
(Note: This was a different presentation that seemed a good bit smaller than the picture someone has posted below of the same dish from from Sept of last year.)
* Foi Gras (seared, Parfait & Terrine).
This was excellent, particularly the seared piece of liver that was otherwise seemingly untouched. Simply the best I’ve tasted.
But again, so much attention was lavished on presentation. For 17.50 EURO, I’d hope for a bit more to eat.
I had the beef entrée, which was excellent as far as flavor is concerned. But once more, there was a huge amount of effort placed on appearance, but the dish itself contained only about 3 – 4 ounces of meat. Three little pieces.
I do not recall what my wife had, but she will no doubt be posting here soon enough.
Let me be clear: I am not a stereotypical American. I am of healthy weight and do not want 3,000 calories of food for dinner. I do not expect a 20oz steak when I order a beef dish in a French restaurant. But, I also do not want to go bed hungry, either. That is precisely what I did on this night.
(Unfortunately my wife was too exhausted to stay, so we did not have cheeses/​desert. That might have helped a bit).
Note: It looked like a place frequented by business types, though we were there on a Monday evening, admittedly. I felt rather underdressed, as I didn’t bring a suit along on vacation.

I had been here a couple of months ago and forgot to write a review. I thought the food here was absolutely delicious and found beetroot and goats cheese salad was the one I’ve ever eaten. It’s fine dining at an affordable price and can’t wait to go back here

I love One Pico. I have been a few times and recently went for Mothers Day Lunch. We had the set menu and I had a delicious goats cheese salad, followed by ray wing and a dessert of Panna Cotta. Presentation is very good and you almost dont want to mess it up by eating it! The wine list is good and we found the Bergerac to be a nice compliment to our meal. The décor is very nice in One Pico, I was very comfortable sitting in a big grey armchair. The staff are attentive and helpful and i will be back soon for another treat day.

Lunch — 5 People — Sunday Feb 16^th 2014
Restaurant was busy but not packed. The food was delicious and represented excellent value for the quality on offer (25 euro for 2 courses) or € 29 for 3. Superb presentation of the food also. Definitely recommend for lunch. The goats cheese and beetroot start was as good as it gets, and the ham terrine foie gras starter was also excellent. The Beef cheek main was melt in your mouth tender and the Atlantic Cod dish was flavoursome. Will be going back again soon.

Had fabulous lunch here. The dining room is cosy and quite elegant but casual. Reasonably priced considering quality .The risotto was one of the best risotto dishes I have had. The service staff is attentive and friendly. Highly recommended

A quick interview with myself:
How good is it here? very very good
How was the service? exceptional; smooth, professional, non invasive
How much did it cost? quite a lot, but worth every penny — we had a set menu, 68Euro per person, wine extra of course and several menu items carried a surcharge (the cheese plate for example)
Do you have any regrets? not really, I very much enjoyed my starter (foie gras) but my companions all had a prawn Moussaka which looked and by all accounts tasted, spectacular.
Yup, very very very good, I highly recommend it!
last question before I let you on your way… can you remember where we left the car keys?

Food was good but we found a hair in my wife’s risotto and they claimed it was staged.

Great saturday lunch here in July 13. Excellent value set menu, wonderful service and really nice ambience. Companion’s cheese and tomato risotto was very tasty while my elderflower parfait served in a watermelon consommé was ingenious and refreshing. Excellent wine selection.

The starter looked like something Vermeer would have wanted to capture in oils, lustrous beet red again a matt slate background, creamy goat’s cheese and that oh so delicately arranged salad that if food were apparel would be the ‘nonchalant’ silk scarf that nails the look.
In short, food you want to stare at. Wistfully, lamenting that soon your greed will cause its inevitable destruction. Food that gives rise to oohs and aahs, and the odd ‘I’m jealous!’ comment. I was jealous of everyone because it all looked so good, even if I can never get over that thing about ducks, gullets and feeding methods that others seem only too well equipped to deal with, if the numbers going for foie gras were anything to go by. In my non-​defence, though, can a meat-​eater really be a kinder shade of cruel?
Weirdly (worryingly?), the vegetables looked so beautiful you wouldn’t be surprised to find out they were sentient, too.
Thank the heavens for work lunches on special occasions, in this case, the celebration of the life and work of a truly wonderful author, to bring you to places you don’t really belong. Like One Pico. You read about this place, where politicians throng (presumably just to make extra sure they stay right out of touch with the populus) and media types hob-​nob. Or maybe that was the good old days.
Business is not looking slack here though, as this lunchtime trade showed.
You know the kind of place where the waiters know everything? They have this vaguely elusive air of authority that not only makes them remember every small detail of your order, but makes you feel that they might also be privy to such information as your bank balance, favourite record, or recent lingering internal self-​doubts. It’s the way they look at you — quietly all-​knowing, all-​seeing. That’s your One Pico variety of waiter. You don’t want parmesan in your risotto? He understands. You crave a deeper, more lasting sense of self-​affirmation? He understands.
It’s too easy to cave at ‘delicious’ for food descriptions (I promise I won’t use ‘amazing’). But it just was goddamn delicious, every last morsel of starter, main and heart-​breakingly small dessert that actually completely fills you up whilst stopping just short of causing you to identify with whales.
They’re not snobby about tap water, either.
It’s far from cheap, but it deserves to be — it does it all beautifully and it doesn’t make a fuss. I want to go back. Now. Somebody rich take me. Please. I’ll tell you loads of interesting gossip. Even if it’s made up it’ll be entertaining. And we can play a game of ‘what do you know about the depths of my soul?’ with one of the waiters. I’m sure they’d be up for it — after they’ve finished hypnotising you and downloading all the personal information from your brain before snapping their fingers with the words, ‘Be seated now. You will remember none of this.’

Returned for another delightful meal.
Seafood is a standout, both presentation and preparation.
€ 39 prix fixe for 3-​course dinner offered Monday — Thursday before 7 pm. Something for everyone.
Tip: Choose the prix fix dinner menu for best value.
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Just celebrated our anniversary with dinner at One Pico, it didn’t disappoint!!! Lovely intimate place, excellent service and amazing food-​you can’t lose! Especially when you do the early bird,€ 39 per person for 3 courses-​will be back!

Just had a very good lunch in One Pico.
started with whipped goats cheese and beetroot, dressed with lovely micro herbs, very tasty.
followed with roasted cod on a bed of potato purée, french beans and peas. really good
Two of us with coffees, 55Euro, that’s good value for food of this quality.

ooooh swanky! It was great to try a new place especially when someone else is footing the bill! My review of the food may not be totally on the ball what with me being a bit stunned from an event earlier that day. I rarely have dinners in my honour (this is something that I think should happen more!) and even more rarely in swanky places like this.
Service was professional but also friendly and welcoming. I was slightly confused by my starter. I had ordered the onion soup and a bowl with a lump of something came out… I had this moment where I wondered if I was so out of the loop and it might be passé to think that soup should be liquid. However there followed some ceremony where a gravy like liquid was then poured into the bowl, and then it all made sense. Yes soup is liquid!
The mains, dessert and wine seemed as lovely as could be ascertained in my not-​totally-​with-​it state. Actually I particularly liked that my dessert (crème brûlée) came with ice-​cream and biscuits as I like variety. It was a lovely relaxed dinner and despite the busy restaurant they really did not hurry us out. Just lovely!

Was in One Pico yesterday for a business lunch, and was thoroughly impressed.
Food-​tick. Absolutely delicious, well-​thought out food.
Had beautiful beetroot and goats cheese salad to start, a sumptuous sweet and savoury taste, which whet the appetite just enough for mains.
Main course was a fabulous tart tatin of Clonakilty black pudding (can’t resist it on a menu!) and cabbage which was simply wonderful, very fine dining with a distinct echo of traditional, homecooked Irish fare.
To finish I had a very light lemon curd paired with basil jelly and a few other bits and pieces.
Three courses for € 25 is a great way to sample one of Dublin’s best without breaking the bank…
Highly recommend!

Had been dying to try this place out for ages and finally got the chance on Sat night. Boy, I wasn’t disappointed. We arrived at 6 (only booking available) and were promptly seated.
I loved the décor, modern, sophisticated yet still had an intimate ambience.
We were given the a la carte and the early bird special — 3 courses for 36.00.
I chose the langostine risotto with snow pea and truffle froth to start followed by scallops with pork belly and a side of beetroot. The food was elegantly served and presented on the plate and the langostine melted in the mouth. The others had foie gras to start followed by Fermanagh chicken (both declared excellent) and a smoked salmon followed by sea bream for my health conscious friend. All of these were off the early bird special.
The sommellier was very nice, not at all pretentious and chose a very nice french Pinot Grigio to accompany our meal from their House range.
Now the downside and the reason they failed to score a full 5 stars was the dessert. I had a wonderfully executed vanilla crème brûlée, my hubby had chocolate fondant, with pistachio ice cream and it didn’t disappoint. But our pals were sorely let down by the lemon tart. I couldn’t believe when it was presented to them. The pastry was dark brown and very obviously burnt! It was such a let down and such a fundamental error we felt it should never have been served up and taken off the menu. We pointed it out to the Maitre D’ and suggested he pull it off the menu as it was not acceptable at all. Having said that it won’t stop us bookmarking this place to return to as there were a few other tasty options I want to try.