3 Leaves

The news that Milie and Santosh’s beloved 3 Leaves restaurant will be upgrading and opening for dinner is the sort of good news that makes the world, and South County Dublin in particular, a better place. Everyone loves 3 Leaves – okay, everyone adores 3 Leaves – but the downside has always been the difficulty in actually getting a table to enjoy Santosh’s superb cooking. We love it because 3 Leaves brings an elegance and complexity to Indian street food that knocks this delicious and artful cooking into the stratosphere: slow-roast venison with Malabar paratha; the outstanding chicken biryani; lamb trotter soup; the extravaganza that is the 3 Leaves thali plate. Milie is one of the great hostesses, and the room is always joyous and energised, filled with happy people enjoying true Indian cooking, from a master of the genre.