Rail Craft Kitchen & Bar - Dublin

I ate here for the first time tonight. I have Celiac disease. Got what was supposed to be a gluten free meal and now I’m sick. The food wasn’t even good for the price. Average at best. They do not have the knowledge to provide safe meals for special needs. I will not be back.

We started with some fried pickles and they were super good! My 5 year old approved too! They offer a gluten free bun which my wife says is really good. I had the steak salad and it was really good too, the steak was cooked really well!

This kind of pains me to write this review because I’ve been eating here for years but the quality has just gone down in recent years. Went today for lunch and found out that they revamped the menu and added a whole bunch of new stuff. Awesome! I like seeing new things on the menu and mixing it up a bit. Major problem with this change, they’ve added fried shrimp and they fry everything in the same fryer. I don’t personally have any food allergies but I’ve got family members who are highly allergic to shellfish and another who has celiacs and I was at lunch with both of them. This place has always been good with the various allergies and became a favorite because of that and after today we probably will never be coming back. Because they only have the one fryer, that’s always meant that the family member with celiacs can’t eat anything fried there but now with the shrimp also being fried in the same fryer, it’s a major headache for people with food allergies. And I get it, when you have food allergies eating out can be hard but it’s really frustrating to find a place that was safe for everyone with food allergies to no longer be safe. We wouldn’t have even noticed it if the host hadn’t mentioned that they added shrimp to the menu because we’ve been going here without an issue for so long. We had placed our order by the time we noticed so then we had the fun time of finding the waiter and asking all these questions about how the food was cooked. Another major issue we had today again involved the shared fryer, the person with celiacs asked for a salad because they can’t have the fries and then had their plate come out with the fries, they were nice and brought the salad out but my sister wasn’t able to eat all of her burger just for the fear of cross-contamination from touching the fries. I got the feeling that the owners/cooks hadn’t really figured out the possible issues that can come from frying everything in the same batch of oil. I feel bad writing this review, because I’ve liked eating here but with the new menu change and not having something like a dedicated fryer for fries, I don’t think I’ll ever be coming back. The menu is now horribly limited for people with food allergies. Also, the new lemoncello mule is horrible. Avoid it at all costs.