Best places: French restaurants in Leinster

Intimate contemporary rooms with peat burning fireplaces for innovative and well presented plates.

Georgian rooms with original features for crisp white tablecloths, gourmet dining and French wines.

Creative, contemporary French/Irish bistro fare served up in a fashionable restaurant/bar.

Classical French dishes combined with Gallic wine list in elegant but casual old Europe dining room.

👍 Food was delicious, attentive service, the hostess took our coats at the door, chose a nice window seat and the server helped us pick our wine and choose our mains. 0.5 stars was deducted for the bread. The other 0.5 was for my duck which could have been better pink.

Stylish & intimate restaurant and wine bar with menu of refined contemporary dishes, plus cocktails.

👍👍 Great food and a menu that has everything. Cocktails are great here too with a French bistro feel that is nice and warm in the winter. I think this place is nicer mid week as you can relax and stay a bit longer. Can be a little rushed on the weekend but all round very good spot

Innovative combinations of French technique and Irish produce served in an 18th-century coach house.

👍👍 Such a lovely place to celebration special occasions✨ we had a beautiful night with great food & wine at Bresson. Staff were kind and very attentive.

Down the stairs from street level is this knick knack filled space for 350 wines and a French menu.

Refined modern restaurant showcasing inventive contemporary Irish cuisine using regional produce.

😐 Hard to enjoy food when the place is literally filthy. Mucky floors, manky tea towels and staff who don’t even speak to each other, clanging dishes so loud it’s awkward. The cutlery is stored a few inches away from the dirty floor. Used to come here often, sad to see it go downhill.

👍 Dessert is not my cup of tea. Wired taste. Cinnamon in creme brulee 😂😂 Starter salad is tasty, main course I had pan fried fish, it was good.

Red checked tablecloths drape the pavement tables of this clasical, Parisian-style bistro.

👍👍 I was working in the neighbourhood for 8 days and came there even twice (even though I wanted to try many different things). I ordered a small variation of salads the first time (sooooo delicious!) and probably the best wrap I’ve ever had in my life the second time. They serve vegan and vegetarian f...

Rustic red brick walled dining room with blackboard menus and dark wood furniture for a French menu.

French cuisine with Irish variations in an informal brasserie that admits no under 12s after 5pm.

👍👍 Hidden gem. The new menu is great (try the onion soup!), and the service and staff are too. Salmon with mustard sauce also great. But of course, the best reason to go here is the wine selection.

Family-run, traditional restaurant serving fresh fish dishes and locally caught crab and lobster.

Refined bakery with Parisian origins, specializing in French macarons in a number of flavors.