Kilkenny Café — Restaurant in Dublin

Very very disappointed this morning at our awful breakfast experience at Kilkenny Design Nassau Street, Dublin.We were there at 8am when it opened. I've been going here every Christmas Eve for years with friends and would order the famous "Potters Breakfast" with delicious food, Guinness nutty brown bread and quality cappuccinos all included in the price...but this year no delicious Guinness bread, the food was served on cold plates (previously a warmer cover was put over your food and if a staff member was about they would offer to carry or help with your tray if you were struggling which was a lovely touch) ...the eggs especially this morning looked and tasted inferior and had grey patches which I was afraid to eat, plus the rest of our breakfast was not even luke warm never mind hot..in fact the beans tasted like they came from the tin without being heated!! The coffee was from a vending style machine..I did mention to the person on the till how disappointed we all were with our experience and were shocked how standards and quality have fallen ...I noticed as well there was no queue this year...usually the queue would be down the stairs and out the door..has word got around and people not making their way to Kilkenny Cafe? So unhappy and upset for my party that our Christmas Eve treat was so horrid...one friend asked me not to complain as the food made her gag and she didn't want to be offered a replacement or...

Kilkenny Café is conveniently located for a quick bite to eat or a cup of tea or coffee as you visit major sights near Trinity College including the National Library of Ireland, and the national art gallery and museum. Neither the food nor the atmosphere is something to rave about, though. My dining companion and I both thought that whatever seasoning was in the cream of vegetable soup we shared today — summer savory, perhaps? — was way too strong. The salad that came with my chicken wrap was simply inedible, with a viscous sweet dressing when, as dining companion said, "All they had to do was put a bit of vinegar and oil on the salad." And the many tables crowded into a fairly small place, with diners carrying trays and vying for a vacant table, hardly makes for pleasant dining. So the convenience of the place has to contend with the poor food and noisy, crowded atmosphere as one makes a choice to eat...

Went to the Kilkenny Café for the first time for a quick light lunch. Seen on the menu they have toasted cheese and ham sandwich option. I could see they had been pre made and they looked good however when I order two of them, they put them in the microwave to heat them up. I don’t know how anyone would think a microwaved sandwich would be nice. It was like rubber and struggled to cut it with a knife. We got two microwaved sandwiches one diet coke one orange juice and one pack of Honkey Dorys for €27. For the quality of food this is a rip-off for this I would expect a fresh sandwich made and GRILLED not microwaved. I will not...