Bloom Brasserie

Came here for a Christmas late lunch type scenario with work and I have to say, what a lovely spot! On a street with much to draw the eye this place is unassuming and downstairs but with its cozy, classy ambience and twinkly lights I instantly got a good feeling when I walked in. The staff are fab and were so attentive from start to end. My wine and water glass indeed never ran dry, always a plus! So on to the food, great selection available from a well put together Christmas menu (none of that turkey and ham stuff trotted out). Devine pâté, perfectly cooked beef and a perfectly portioned apple crumble to round things off. Back to the wine… I opted for red due to the mood I was in and it was lush, so robust and served at the perfect temperature! We were in a big enough group but never felt rushed. Take a bow Bloom, looking forward to my return visit!

I’ve only been here for lunch so far, but it’s a great place. Great ambiance and excellent service. I had the Chicken in Bloom sandwich. It was huge and bursting with flavor. The chips are excellent here too– crispy deliciousness. I’ve also had the steak frites, which was good, but not out of this world good. I definitely preferred the sandwich.
If you go here, get on their e-​mail list! They send out excellent deals at least once a month, like 2 for 1 lunch deals!

Love this place, great little find! Doesn’t have a lot of road frontage, just watch out for the cream doorway & entrance lined with trees, on entering it’s down a flight of stairs into a really warm dining space and nice bar area.
Staff are quick to greet you and whilst it’s busy, I’ve been able to do walk in without any issues. The food is amazing, great value menu plus early bird and set menu options… I’ve dined here with a group plus separately with just the hubby and on both occasions have left super happy… There food has been on both occasions great quality and so flavoursome. Of their lunch menu, the stand out dish for me was the Chicken Pappardelle. From the evening menu, the muscles from the starter, what great taste and value was the portion is very generous so makes for even a great starter to share.
On closing out the time I was there for dinner, we were given a complimentary Bailey’s on ice at the end and also invited to join their VIP programme, which can I say is great,. offer’s like free meal in the month of your birthday, free starter or dessert offers plus even got emailed a great 2 for 1 lunch offer, love it! It’s definitely making returning a no brainer, this place is great for a full meal but if you also just fancy a small plate and catch up with friends, it’s also a nice wine bar to relax in.

Had walked past here a few times but recently decided to drop in and see what it was like. It’s only the one little door in, where you go down the stairs to a small bar by the looooong dining room. It’s a dim lit classy looking place.
I treated myself to the Black bean and redcurrent risotto with parmesan shavings and a wee glass of wine because sure why not !
It was delicious!!! I’m a sucker for risotto it’s rare I wouldn’t order one if it was on the menu, and this was up there :)
Staff very welcoming food was great, pretty quick to come out aswell. Really cool spot, a little pricey to eat there every week but grand for a treat here and there.

8oz steak is lovely. One of the nicest I’ve had in a long while. Staff were attentive and friendly. I also highly recommend the apple crumble.

Im a big fan of Bloom. I pop in for their lunch specials every so often which are really good value and tasty. I’ve been for dinner and had their mussels and chorizo dish which I was licking the plate after and have had their steak dishes too. Tip: order their mini desserts!

This is where lunch club was birthed. Well, our lunch club anyway. I don’t know this area very well so I was open to suggestions when my friend chose bloom. I’m so glad she did. It definitely has the feel of a wine bar. It’s rustic yet classy and is a lot larger than I thought! Service is prompt and polite, and they actually smile! I ordered a white and a Pinot noir with lunch and I enjoyed both of the glasses very much. Their wines by the glass list is pretty darn good! I was impressed wht the wines that were available.
Since it was a quick lunch powwow, no starters were ordered and the mains quickly came out. Yummy mussels with chorizo swimming in this delicious broth, a fresh and tasty beef tataki salad, and a lamb dish that was so tender a knife wasn’t needed. Out of the 3 I guess I was the least impressed with the lamb as I would like a savoury jus or rich sauce but it was served in this tomato purée that was a bit bland, but still it was a very solid choice. The beef in the salad is rare but is so flavourful and the sauces it came with really complemented the salad… It was this aioli or something but I really enjoyed it. Would love to come back again for lunch or dinner. It isn’t something I can afford to do every week but lunching here was a good choice. Can’t wait for the next good choice!

We were meeting friends for a late dinner on Lower Baggot last weekend and had some time to kill beforehand. I was not in the mood for a beer so that seriously limited our venue options. I remembered passing by Bloom a few times so suggested stopping in there as it was somewhat on our way. Once inside we took the steps down to the basement to find a quaint, dimly lit room with a wine cellar feel. There were a very small number of tables and a small bar in the corner but it gave the place a homey feel. We didn’t want to take up any of the restaurant tables so took seats at the bar. The bartender quickly greeted us and let us have a moment to glance at the menus. My husband had a peroni and I went with a glass of Chianti. My Chianti was quite good for the price and they had several kinds of red wine by the glass under 10 euro. We chatted up the bartender who talked about their specials for the night and the various types of tapas. Our reservation time was nearing so we promised to try them another night. Maybe 10 minutes later the chef came by with a wooden paddle and two shooters of something. He sat them in front of us and said he wanted us to try their special for the night to whet our appetites for our next visit. It was such a nice touch given that they knew it was our first time in the place. I didn’t really know what to expect but it was wonderful. Some kind of seafood risotto with fennel. Great flavors and the risotto was cooked perfectly (not the mushy stuff you get at some places). A little customer service goes a long way so they definitely have my business as a wine bar and I look forward to trying out the full restaurant experience as well. Bloom is pretty easy to miss as the door is sandwiched between two other store fronts but If you find it you won’t regret it.

Came here for lunch — they have some specials but I guess it’s a little on the pricier side for lunch. The server was really nice and made small talk with us. He was also nice enough to switch some parts of my order:
I got the Pulled pork chorizo sandwich (YUM) and asked for the goat cheese to be switched with brie. Oh my goodness it was delicious. That was definitely a good choice. Also ordered an Americano which was not half bad. Definitely willing to come back for lunch in the future to try some of the other selections.

Love Bloom, have been a fan for a couple of years now. Situated on Baggot Street you have to go downstairs as you enter the restaurant. Really great for both lunch and dinner.
The restaurant is very well run by the Owner who is also the Head Chef and serves up fab food every time. There is a beautiful seating area out the back of the restaurant where you can enjoy tapas in the sun (whenever it graces our lovely country with its random and limited presence!).
Great selection of wines, my favourtie house cocktail of champagne and fangelico, they have a bar too so you can enjoy other drinks before or after your dinner.
On the menu, Gambas and Foie Gras are amazing, TBone and fish dishes are beautifully cooked and presented. Before these you will also be served with some fresh house made bread. And then there’s my favourite part, which I quite often feel like having for starters… the Belgian Chocolate Soup, yes soup! and its devine. I was in a little hurry last time so the waitor (I think his name is Adrian, he’s there all the time and is fab at his job!) prepared an Apple Crumble to take home with me which I enjoyed smothered in hot custard later that evening.
There’s not many places I go back to again and again but this is definately one of them. Great for a date, or just a lunch date with a friend, they cater for big parties too and business lunches.

Went here with the Rate My Area deal, which I thought meant we could get 3 tapas for 10 euro, but we got 4 and were only charged 5something… A+ for us on that account
Nice décor, I could see it being really romantic. The music went from being okay to being odd…
Got the White Bean Salad (okay, kind of bland), Goats Cheese Salad (great), Garlic and Herb Sauteed Potatoes (didn’t taste the garlic, but delicious none the less), and the Trio of Mature Cheeses (great cheese and caramelized pears, but it only came with 5 crackers, so we really were just eating cheese at one point, which I don’t have a problem with).

I went here on a Friday a few weeks ago using a deals voucher. Myself and my dining partner were instructed we could choose any starter, main course and dessert from the menu even with our voucher. The chicken liver was tasty, scallops are amazing, my friends tuna was delicious but the star of the show was the chocolate and hazelnut soup which was among the nicest desserts I’ve ever been served in a restaurant. Service was great and atmosphere and décor was really great. Will definitely go back and highly recommended.

I have signed up for these daily deals by email and one came along a week or two ago for the Bloom Brasserie. Three tapas dishes for € 10. So I checked out Unilocal first and then decided I’d give the place ago.
After walking in, I was impressed with the stylish décor and the atmosphere was a nice chilled subtle restaurant buzz.
After a quick glance to the tapas menu, we realised there wasn’t a huge choice, but this can be good when trying to decide what to have (and I am always suspicious of restaurants that try to provide way too much choice, quality usually suffers).
So I opted for the goats cheese salad, the sautéed chicken liver and the chorizo sautéed potatoes. My partner went for the garlic herb sautéed potatoes, the confit duck leg and the sautéed chorizo garlic mushrooms. By far the nicest dish was the confit duck leg, this was yummy. The worst dish was the chicken liver which was raw in the centre. I know its ideally served rare, but this was too rare. The other dishes were fine, too much garlic used in all of them (including the garlic and herb potatoes).
Overall very disappointing for a tapas experience and I am glad we only paid € 20 for all six dishes, I would have been very p-​off if I had paid full wack.
Please note there is a dinner menu also on offer, which we didn’t try.

After eating pub food the entire trip, my partner and I decided that it was time to eat something different. A stroll down the ways, we found this nice little eatery. Tucked down the stairs is a small little restaurant that was not in a pub like setting. The menu read appetizing and it was a must to try.
As we headed into the restaurant, it was empty with two other patrons eating. Yet the hostess wouldn’t let us seat a table that we wanted to choose from. I wanted to sit at a table for 4, as the table for 2 was a bit crowded. Yet this table was for reservations, as the hostess mentioned. Come on now, at this late time and with so many OPEN TABLES, I don’t think it would have mattered. Yet, she was persistent. What made the matter a little more irritating was that another couple was sat in a table for 6 after us.
Other than that, the food was okay. I ordered the chicken liver appetizer. It was bland and needed more flavor. The chicken dish that I ordered was fine, yet not memorable.
Overall, it was a good break from the pub food that we ate the entire trip. Yet, with the pub food having more flavor and taste, it would have been a better option.

I was pleasantly suprised by this little place. It was right around the corner of our hotel and we were hungry (and tired of bar food) so we stopped in. I had duck confit. Seasoned perfectly and cooked so the meat just fell off the bones. I recommend it to anyone stopping in.

Always happy to see a new eaterie on Baggot Street but a little dubious, because nothing seems to last in this spot. It was Ouzo’s for a while then something else, can’t remeber the name, so I was a little skeptical of Bloom Brasserie. I was pleasantly pleased when we went downstairs. I expected the dark space that was there before but they’ve opened out into a lovely patio too. Really nice.
For lunch I had the «Ballontine Of Fermanagh Chicken, Pui Lentils, Caramelised Red Onions, Thyme Jus» — sounds fancy, well it was just € 11 and it was delicious. Really lovely. Had a perfect crème brûlée to finish me off too. I’m going back to Bloom’s… I just hope it’s still there!

Bloom Brasserie, Upper Baggot Street, City Centre South.
You are familiar I’m sure with the famed Tardis — the ship belonging to Dr. Who which looks small and unimposing from the outside yet marvellous and spacious on the inside? Well, Bloom Brasserie is similar; from a small almost unpromising doorway you go down steps into a beautifully bedecked and nicely lit space. It immediately says to the customer «you’re gonna like this… quite a lot» (to misquote Paul Daniels… You remember; the magician guy… short? Hot wife… oh forget it).
Anyway, the setting is great, the wine-​list a very healthy mix of new and old world at reasonable prices and they do a house cocktail with procecco/​sparkling wine and a sweet liqueur — off hand I cant remember what it is… actually I cant remember on-​hand either, you’ll just have to order one… totally worth it!
On to the menu and it is a short one; all of 8 or 9 mains with the same in starters. The food ranged from whole sea bass which was exceptionally good to duck, fillet of beef a few veg options and a corn-​fed chicken (€ 18) which was superb. We didn’t have starters but they looked and smelled great as I looked longingly at the table next to us cursing my decision to go without.
The restaurant has a great little patio area out the back where they can seat 25 (so not that small) and they have a tapas menu they offer out there, for a sunny summers eve such as we had once last month there will be no where like it to try out the house cocktail (really…it was very good).
Desert, when we finally elected to have it (well, we needed something to accompany the last of the excellent Itallian A’bruzzo red we were knocking back) got a mixed reception. The chocolate fondant was (and I do not exaggerate) sublime. The crème-​brule was not to be sniffed at and the coffee very good indeed, however I would take issue on the portions on the cheese board, at € 3 a shot I would expect more than a portion the size of my medium sized thumb, but that is exactly what we got. The veg portions for the main course were similarly petite, so fill up on bread, they offer some excellent stuff that arrives soon after you are seated.
All in all — a worthwhile dining experience. Much enjoyed and to be repeated!