Temple Bar Lane by the KeyCollections in Dublin

La Caverna is a cosy restaurant. The staff were very friendly and helpful. It's also well priced being quite reasonable.
However the food is not traditional Italian. The menu is more like a standard Irish restaurant serving some pasta and pizza. If you have been in a traditional Italian restaurant you could not confuse it with La Caverna. The food was very average. The calzone I had was over filled mess of ingredients, which was then covered in tomato sauce and more cheese. The starters were the usual Irish starters (chicken wings, spring rolls,(!) goats cheese in pastry etc), the minestrone soup was ok but over seasoned. I was surprised it was rated so highly here. It probably deserves a 2.5 but I can't give that and it's not a 3.

I didn't enjoy eating here at all. We came here to celebrate my sister's hen do - I didn't feel very taken care of. There were 12 of us, a server came and took drinks for only 4 and then didn't come back to get orders for the rest of us.

The food was extremely oily.

The toilets were unclean. No toilet roll in either cubicle so I had to ask. There was tissue all over the floor that wasn't cleaned up even when they finally replenished the toilet roll. No sanitary towel bin, just an open waste basket you were meant to use.

Very standard Mexican fair with little imagination and matching presentation. With an envious spot in the Italian quarter, far more could have been done to make this a viable and exciting offering in a town that is overflowing with burritos and tapas. Too much cheese on the mains and the oil that the fries were cooked in had been multi purpose for a couple of weeks as you could taste everything else that had been in it. The price is not so bad though but still not reflective of what you end up with.