Chapter One - Michelin Star Irish Restaurant
Chapter One is an award-winning restaurant in Dublin. The venue received a Michelin Star in 2007 and keeps the famous star to this day.
But you can check out the restaurant's several awards and distinctions on the walls as you enter.
The restaurant sits on the discreet basement of the Dublin Writers Museum, now you can guess the origin of the name. Chapter One owner and chef is Cork County-born Ross Lewis, who studied Dairy Science at University College Cork and worked in a variety of restaurants in Europe and the USA. Ross was the chef at the state banquet offered to the Queen of England when she was in Ireland a few years ago. In the early 1990s he began running the restaurant. This summer we made a reservation with enough anticipation to check out the dishes of this award-winning restaurant. The decor is very minimalist with some artwork by Irish artists.
We decided to order the tasting menu so we could try more dishes. But you can get the two courses menu, three courses menu and individual dishes. The service was impeccable and even Ross himself appeared to greet us. Well, first a doubt from many people. Despite being a tasting menu you do not remain hungry at the end of the meal. While the dishes are being prepared, the waiters offer Irish breads, butter and a small toast with a kind of pate.
The first dish already charmed us! Tapioca with mushrooms. The tapioca is cooked like a risotto. According to the waitress it is the chef's signature dish. The look is not the best but it is extremely yummy and creamy.
Second dish: cured organic salmon with mini smoked buttermilk pancakes. It's good but not sensational. It looks beautiful on the plate!
Third dish: artichoke, peach, duck ham and a sauce of goat's milk. Delicious and fairly small.
The fourth dish: cod, mussel vinaigrette, apple and smoked salmon roe. It pleased us more than the other dish with fish. This yellow sauce was super yummy.
Fifth and main dish: pork fillet, pork tail, lentil dumplings, season vegetable cassoulet and mustard sauce. Very well matched flavours, but the dumplings were just average.
Before the dessert comes this little fresh sweet to clean the palate.
Dessert: flavors and textures of Irish milk and honey. For me it was the culmination of the whole meal. Ross must have used the knowledge he gained in Cork to develop such a sublime and delicate dessert. He used, for example, the skin of milk to make a crunchy. It's VERY good and most likely you've never experienced anything like it.
And before we left we still had cappuccino and some chocolate petit four along with our coffee.
All I mentioned in the post costs €60 per person. It's worth to celebrate some important date. Always remember to book well in advance. The entire meal will last for at least 3 hours.
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