It was a big night for Dublin's pubs, cafes and restaurants at the Irish Restaurant Awards 2023 on Monday evening.
The awards, which celebrate the best of Irish hospitality over the past 12 months, took place in the Clayton Hotel in south Dublin on Monday evening. Now in its 14th year, the Irish Restaurant Awards, which have been dubbed Ireland's 'Food Oscars', received a record number 130,000 nominations this year.
Almost 1, 200 restaurant and hospitality business owners and staff celebrated their hard work at Monday's award ceremony. The big winner on the night was Dublin's Chapter One by Finnish chef Mickael Viljanen, which was named as Ireland’s best restaurant for the second year in a row.