101 Great Irish Restaurants: Leinster

Kildare

Canteen, Celbridge

This restaurant started life in the small premises in Blackrock Market that’s now home to Heron & Grey, but has been reinvented and expanded in Celbridge by owners James Sheridan and Soizic Humbert. Sheridan’s cooking is a delight: simple yet refined, and packed with tonnes of flavour, while Humbert runs a relaxed and warm front-of-house operation.

The menu reads well and eats even better, with dishes like charred mackerel with ...