Best Restaurants Thread

I have a feeling that afterwards I'll be thinking that I would have preferred a burger and chips 

Aye, I've been to about half a dozen. You will get enough to eat, don't worry about that. The menu very likely changes daily or weekly so the menu online probably isn't that useful, although it may well have a signature dish that is on the menu more or less permanently.

Make sure you know what sort of price you are looking at before you get there, because they are expensive. Pretty much every michelin star restaurant has its own website so have a look at it. If you're heading early enough, a lot of michelin star restaurants have reasonably enough priced pre-theatre menus that still give you an excellent standard of food. If you're going later and going for the tasting menu, most places have a rule that everyone at the table has to have the tasting menu; it's to stop people showing up and one person ordering the tasting menu and the other taking just a starter from the a la carte, then both of them sharing the tasting menu. It's a di*k move but you can see why they do it.

Their margins are, oddly, usually lower in percentage terms than lower standard restaurants. The number of staff is nuts and you only really see front of house; in the kitchen, they have far more chefs as well. But they make money on the wine... most tasting menus will have wine pairings at stupid prices. If you go for that, you'll end up drunk and broke.

This modern ireland that we have created is great that people can be open about such things.