South William Street, Dublin 2
Fire. Smoke. Seasons.
Coal-fired cooking on South William Street. A short menu, changed weekly, built around what's best right now. Dinner from Tuesday. Lunch Friday and Saturday.
350°
The coal oven runs all evening. Every main course passes through it.
30 covers
The room is small on purpose. Book ahead, especially Friday and Saturday.
Weekly
The menu turns over with what came into the kitchen that morning.
In the kitchen this week
A short menu, built around the fire.
Short, and it changes. What's below is what's on right now, built around what came into the kitchen this week. Ask your server about the odd substitution.
Our story
A room stripped back to the essentials.
The Forge opened in 2021 in a Victorian warehouse space on South William Street. We took it back to bare brick and poured concrete, put a coal oven at the centre of the kitchen, and built a short menu around what it does well. The wine list is mostly natural and mostly European. The team is small and the room holds thirty. We think that's the right size.
More about the room
The room
Bare brick, low light, one oven.
"Small room, one oven, and they don't try to do more than that. It's the best table on the street."
Dinner from Tuesday
The room holds thirty. It fills up.
Dinner Tuesday to Saturday from 17:30, lunch Friday and Saturday from 12:00. 34 South William Street, Dublin.