Cleaver East

Had dinner with friends on Thursday evening and we were all delighted with the experience. Everyone loved each course (great value for three courses) and the service was fantastic! Our server was so friendly and helpful! Will definitely be back.

Fabulous service in beautiful surroundings

Small overpriced portions. Limited vegetarian mains options.

We went saturday night to celebrate valentines and an anniversary. I ordered a rib eye medium rare and it came along and it was well done. They took my dish back but left my wife with hers. in fairness they did bring along a strater while they did me a new steak but this mistake just took away from the evening. While the rest of the night was fine and the service staff were attentive on reflection I dont think this is acceptable for a restaurant that is meant to specialise in steak and for the price they were charging. I paid €150 for the two of us for two cocktails, one bottle of red, our mains and one desert. First time here and disappointed and too many other options in the city to go back.

Visited here with a friend & thoroughly enjoyed it. Food was great & the service was excellent. Our waiter was both charming & knowledgeable. Highly recommend.

Food was nice, restaurant door was left open so a breeze was blowing in. I asked the waitress if she could close the door and she said she wasn’t allowed because of the hotel. I quickly ate and got out of the restaurant because it was a cold day and it was uncomfortable sitting there with a breeze on your back.

Great food and amazing gluten free options very good value

They couldn’t find my reservation on their system which was stressful. Food and service were fine but the place was extremely dirty. Bits and pieces of food on couches and the floor. They clearly hadn’t cleaned the place for a while. I even used my hand to clean my seat of breadcrumbs and food before sitting right in front of my waitress and she didn’t really react at all.

Good food. No complaints. Service is slow.

Disappointing to be honest. I never realised that they had completely changed the menu since my last visit. I had been about 3 or 4 times and I really liked it. It had a mainly European menu with chicken, steak etc similar to FX Buckley) but when I went back in October it had completely changed to a mostly Asian inspired menu ... my favourite side (mashed potato in a Kilner jar with gravy and small pieces of steak ofttt) was gone from the menu 😭 I probably won’t go back because I think it’s now over priced and if I’m honest the name doesn’t suit the food served like cleaver - meat - steaks ... there’s only one steak on the menu now. Mostly shellfish, fish and some pork.

Anyway, disappointed that the menu changed, it’s not great now.

Had to ask several times for top ups for drinks

The food was AMAZING. Thre early bird meals and a bottle of wine for €103 - incredible value and the food exceeded expectations for all of us.

Excellent value for money for really good food - would recommend

Great experience. Really good ambiance. Quality food, as always. Excellent staff. Courteous, professional and amicable.

Great bottomless brunch, great value, great food. Will return!

Mums and daughters day out

Amazing experience. Wonderful food and even better service.

All in all it was an enjoyable meal, was a little bit disappointed to discover that the menu on display outside the restaurant was not the one on offer at I was looking forward to the venison dish that was in the outside menu. Wife and I ate from the early menu, the starters chicken goysa and pork belly were both delicious.
For mains my wife had the pork belly which was very tasty, it was beautyfully cooked, the fat had rendered down perfectly and the skin was nice and crispy. I had the hake which we disappointing, the fish was a little overcooked and the was no real standout flavour in the dish, everything was just there, but nothing stood out.
The service was quite slow also, there was very long waiting periods between courses, we ordered an additional glass of wine to go with our mains, but by the time we had finished our wine had not arrived so we cancelled it as we needed to leave to catch a show. All in all, many positives but let down by slow service and a disappointing fish dish.

Absolutely perfect.
Great food for great value, the service was great, I highly recommend !

Worst dining out experience in long time. Hadn’t been here for few years. We were In Temple Bar on June bank hol Sunday and I suggested we eat there. Big mistake..,! We all ordered the burgers and asked for them to be cooked as “medium “ as possible.. I ordered with no bun. After an unacceptable wait time ... My cremated shrivelled up excuse for a burger arrived on a plate with none of the listed trimmings and absolutely nothing else on plate ...! I was shocked instantly at its unappetizing appearance. The other burgers arrived with bun and all the trimmings but were apparently dried up and over cooked ... I called the waiter and showed him my plate and asked if he thought that it was acceptable to serve a plate like that .. he agreed it didn’t look good and offered to change it.. I told him to bring me a side salad as I was now too hungry to await any further, the chef came to talk to us and we gave him our overview of his delivery of our food. He apologized. We paid and left. Shame to see Oliver Dunne still has his name on this place.. disaster....

Lovely food and good value

Fantastic food and good wine and great atmosphere and good service.

customer service was so good. visited with three friends and my toddler, staff were so friendly and attentive esp to helping with my toddler, bringing his food out early, making a dish esp for him. Really rate the staff's service.

Really enjoyed our meal food was excellent great Choice on menu. Service was very good. Just got a bit loud towards the end but it was nearly 11.

Stunning food! Had a fantastic night and will certainly be back

I thought it was very expensive for what you got nothing came with the main course you had to buy sides
Had to hand back bill twice before it was right

Starters are the highlight-dumplings are amazing!

Service was very slow.
20 mins waiting for desert, ordered cocktails after desert and cocktails were gone by the time desert arrived.

Christmas Voucher - 3 selections for mains course were poor.

Starter and desert were excellent.

Had the Sunday bottomless brunch experience and it was great. Only reason for the 4* is for the lack of vegetarian options :(

First ever brunch here and I throughly enjoyed it ! Our waiter was sooo attentive and lovely , we were never short a drink continuously being topped up and never rushed off our table so relaxing! Everyone around us was clearly having a great time too! Besides all of that, our food was also to die for Won’t be our last visit!!!

Great food and super value for early bird. Very enjoyable

Disappointing. Initially did not have reservation. Music too loud even though we complained. Much better options in Dublin at the moment.

Poor service. The staff looked like they wanted to be anywhere but there. Served cold mussels with my main dish. Side dishes were slow to arrive, had to ask for one that was left sitting on the bar. Friday night and the place was near empty and quiet, no atmosphere. Won’t be back.

I brought my partner for his birthday. The food was great and the service was brilliant. Very friendly.

Three of us had a booking on Saturday night at 8.30pm. The venue was very quiet, not much atmosphere.
My starter of pork belly was enjoyable and tasty however my friends pork belly main course was disappointing ( portion size and syrupy sauce). My own main course of rib-eye steak was served tepid/almost cold, the garlic butter placed on top didn't even melt. My other friend wasn't happy with her fish mains either. We were offered a free desert each or a glass of wine, which we availed of. The waitress was lovely and couldn't apologize enough but I'm afraid we won't be returning again.

Opted to go for the surprise tasting menu and what to say, it was one of the best meals that both of us had. I was here 2 years ago and it was similar experience so wanted to come back.Definitely will be back again soon as it was a really good experience.

Lovely space and great location but not the most enjoyable lunch. We had not realised that it catered to big parties for bottomless brunch on Saturday. The restaurant was full but all big tables with a rapid turnover and the music was very loud. We were only a party of two and we not the target clientele so we selected badly. Food was good. Would not recommend for a long chatty lunch.

Great experience, food was delicious!

one of my favorites everytime I go to Dublin delicious food and cool atmosphere!

Ambiance garantie dans ce restaurant de Temple Bar,
Les associations de nourriture dans les plats sont assez spéciales pour nos palais de français mais tout était très bon,
Nous avons eu la chance d'avoir une serveuse qui parlait français, c'était super