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Wild or organic Atlantic salmon cured in salt and then cold-smoked over oak or beech for 18 to 36 hours, served thin-sliced with brown soda bread, capers, lemon and butter.
Ireland's smoked salmon tradition runs back to Atlantic wild fishing and oak-smoking practices in the seventeenth century, but the modern Dublin product is the postwar Burren Smokehouse (1989) and Frank Hederman of Belvelly Smokehouse Cobh (1980s). The dish became the breakfast and afternoon-tea signature in Dublin hotel rooms in the 1990s; today every restaurant from The Winding Stair to The Brazen Head serves a smoked salmon plate as a first course. Burren Smokehouse and Connemara Smokehouse are the two reference producers; the Bretzel bagel with smoked salmon and cream cheese is Portobello's own variant.
3 editor picks for Smoked Irish salmon in Dublin, ranked by editorial score. All Dublin signature dishes · Smoked Irish salmon across every city.
The Winding Stair on Ormond Quay in Dublin 1, Elaine Murphy's upstairs dining room above the bookshop overlooking the Ha'penny Bridge and the Liffey.
OrderSmoked Burren salmon, then a bowl of Irish stew with brown bread.
TipWindow seats face the Ha'penny Bridge; book three weeks ahead for the four river-view tables. Walk through the bookshop and up.
The Bretzel on Lennox Street in Portobello, Dublin's only Jewish-tradition bagel and rye bakery since 1870, kosher-style classics and a working sourdough.
OrderA poppy-seed bagel toasted with cream cheese and smoked Irish salmon.
TipSix bagel varieties baked twice daily; the second bake at 14:00 is the quietest collection window.
Gallagher's Boxty House on Temple Bar in Dublin, Pádraic Óg Gallagher's three-room canon of boxty, coddle and smoked salmon, the boxty reference in town.
OrderThe boxty pancake stuffed with beef and Guinness, with a half pint of stout.
TipThe middle dining room is the calm one; the front bar fills with traffic from Temple Bar Square after 19:00.
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