Healthy Restaurants Dublin

My Makeup Perspective

Have been eating healthily for the past few weeks and I'm feeling great and seeing differences!

Himself and myself love to eat out though, and I was wondering if anyone can recommend healthy eateries in Dublin, anywhere between town and Southside preferably.

I'm using MyFitnessPal so somewhere that has calories on the menu would be even better!


Thanks

MMP

tattykitty

Yamamori Noodles (George's Street) lists the calories of their meals on their online dinner menu. I prefer the restaurant on the quays, which is mostly the same menu. Yummy food and I find the portions to be pretty big. They tend to be quite flexible too, so you can order without rice/prawns/tofu etc. if you have sensitivities or are on a low-carb or special diet.

Yum-amori!

rubadub

My Makeup Perspective wrote: »

I'm using MyFitnessPal so somewhere that has calories on the menu would be even better!

Be careful about this, I have seen several places stating calories and some were greatly underestimating them. This is simple to do, they just send a small portion out for 3rd party testing and then have some cert they can even use to verify they are low, or not even bother and just straight out lie.

The noodle place above has many dishes around the 1000kcal mark so might be legit.

A chipper near me has this

1. Thick chips absorb less oil than thin ones, are high in fibre so our chunky chips are healthier
2. An average serving of chips contains more than double the amount of fibre found in an average serving of brown rice or a bowl of porridge
3. Get 1/3 of your daily vitamin C from our chips
4. Fish and Chips have only 595 calories in the average portion. An average pizza has 871 while a big mac meal has 888
5. Fish and Chips are the least processed takeaway food

FTA69

I find Turkish stuff to be a good alternative. Nothing wrong with some grilled lean meat and a salad.

Alf Veedersane

Just curious - what exactly is a 'healthy restaurant'?

Hanley

Anywhere with steak and veg.

FTA69

Alf Veedersane wrote: »

Just curious - what exactly is a 'healthy restaurant'?

One that sells healthy meals perhaps?

Stench Blossoms

Alf Veedersane wrote: »

Just curious - what exactly is a 'healthy restaurant'?

It would seem healthy these days is any place that has calories on the menu.

To me healthy is any reputable restaurant that sells real food and not processed muck.

Hanley

Stench Blossoms wrote: »

To me healthy is any reputable restaurant that sells real food and not processed muck.

Doesn't every half decent restaurant do that?

off the top of my head;
-nandos
-counter burger
-bunsen
-pitt bros

...all do "healthy" meals at an average price point.

Little bit higher and you've access to any number of "traditional" restaurants.

And pretty much every place I've ever been in that serves food for money has some way of making a "healthy" option on the menu - normally just by adding veg/salad instead of chips.

It's straight forward; meat + veg/salad

Stench Blossoms

+ Aussie BBQ

Alf Veedersane

FTA69 wrote: »

One that sells healthy meals perhaps?

But, as has been pointed out, most places have a meat and veg/salad option.

Just wondered if the OP had something else in mind for what constitutes a healthy restaurant.

Dotcomdolly

In town I would rec Honest to Goodness on Dame Court - great salads, home made soups, they do sweet potato fries too
http://www.honesttogoodness.ie/

huskerdu

I would recommend the Port House in Dundrum ( there is one in town also).

Thay do smaller plates of food than the average main course and you can order as many as you want.
There are loads of salads, and fish dishes on the menu.

It would be very possible to order a smaller portion of healthy, good quality food

WhyTheFace

There's no such thing as a healthy restaurant. Just healthy options. Common sense will enable you to decipher the menu.

Fish or chicken or steak and some steamed veg.

It's not rocket science.

Also if you are exercising and eating healthily midweek there's nothing wrong with a rich meal in a restaurant.

Marty McFly

Just came into say place like Aussie BBQ or Counter for lower down the scale cheap healthy options.


Higher up most restaurants have healthy options, steakhouses like the Butcher Grill do amazing food, lovely lump of steak with veg sides .

rubadub

Stench Blossoms wrote: »

It would seem healthy these days is any place that has calories on the menu.

Ironically the only places whose calorie guides I would trust are mcdonalds & burger king, they have had them for years now, long before any government calls for them. Also these are one of the few restaurants which serve varying portion sizes as standard, though some places mentioned above sort of do this.

I think its bizarre how so many restaurants will serve up the same portion to a 7 stone woman as a 25 stone man, rather than consider having 2-3 size options of each meal with accordingly varying price points. I know a guy who was on steroids for a medical condition and he was eating 3 dinners in places, so paying a lot more than he should as so many have in effect got a built in cover charge in the meal prices.