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Hours
Sun
16:00 - 21:30
Tue
17:30 - 21:30
Wed
17:30 - 21:30
Thu
17:30 - 22:00
Fri
17:30 - 22:00
Sat
17:30 - 22:00
Ratings and reviews
4.5
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PRICE RANGE
€16.00 – €39.00
CUISINES
Indian
Special Diets
Vegetarian Friendly, Vegan Options, Gluten Free Options
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About
Vermilion is an award winning Indian fine dining restaurant in Terenure Village. Open since 2001 it has proved a firm favourite with locals and visitors alike. Vermilion was recently voted Readers Choice Best Restaurant in Dublin in the Food & Wine Restaurant of the Year Awards 2015 and was shortlisted in the Best Manager and Best 'Kids Size Me' categories in the RAI Restaurant of the Year Awards 2015
PRICE RANGE
€16.00 – €39.00
CUISINES
Indian
Special Diets
Vegetarian Friendly, Vegan Options, Gluten Free Options
Meals
Dinner, Drinks
FEATURES
Delivery, Takeout, Reservations, Seating, Free off-street parking, Highchairs Available, Serves Alcohol, Full Bar, Free Wifi, Accepts Credit Cards, Table Service, Live Music, Jazz Bar
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4.5
584 reviews
Excellent
415
Very good
94
Average
38
Poor
23
Terrible
14
Albin K
1 contribution
Feb 2020 • solo
I'm a regular customer to Vermilion Indian restaurant. They serve really delicious food and is worth the money I recommend all tourists and everyone to visit their esteemed restaurant. Staff is very friendly and cooperative. My best wishes to the whole management! God bless!
Written 20 March 2020
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cmob
Sandyford90 contributions
Mar 2020 • friends
Had a meal here with friends - the service and food were both fantastic. We had a selection of starters - seafood selection sizzler, a sizzler and everyone had onion bhajis which were delicious and light, I didn’t try the seafood but there were no complaints. Sizzler taster was great too. All mains were really good, we had a selection of chicken and prawn dishes, 2 pilau and 2 plain rice was plenty for 5 and we also had garlic & coriander naan bread. A veritable feast! Espresso Martini in place of dessert and it was delicious. I’m looking forward to returning soon. They have a good value early bird, we had the a la carte.
Written 9 March 2020
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brianpollock
County Dublin2 contributions
Feb 2020 • none
Couldn't praise this restaurant enough. Its been a while since we last visited but it won't be long until we return. From the moment we entered the restaurant the Manager and staff were friendly and welcoming and the food was excellent - wonderful flavours and generous portions. Will definitely be back soon.
Written 25 February 2020
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Louise N
4 contributions
Oct 2020 • family
We ordered a takeaway for the family online from Vermilion and advised it would be ready for collection in 40 minutes.
My husband went down to the restaurant to collect it at the given time. While waiting a further 45 minutes he was asked on at least 3 occasions for his name but never his order number which was assigned to our order.
He expressed his frustration at having to wait this length of time, while others seemed to order and collect with ease.
During lockdown a customer should not be made to wait 40 minutes in a busy environment with no visible air con or ventilation.
The order was finally ready 45 minutes after the given time, that is 85 minutes in total from the time of order.
The icing on the cake was that two parts of the order were missing, popadoms and potatoes, so not only did we pay for this atrocious service we didn’t even get our full order. It is a shame as the food is good.
Written 24 October 2020
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EK57
I am so sorry to hear about the bad experience with your takeaway from Vermilion. We were completely overwhelmed with online and phone orders that evening and are dealing with some issues that came to light. A bug in a new integrated credit card system caused some orders to disappear from the screen and we had to go into our back office system to find the orders when this came to light. We do have a full air conditioning system which is on in the evenings and a very spacious area for people to wait for collections but I understand the wait was far too long. Please believe I am genuinely upset by how things went so wrong with your order and I do truly understand your frustration. When I learnt about your experience later that evening I tried to make contact with you by text in order to try to explain the situation and I would be really grateful if you would give me a call (on the number the sms came from). I really hope to hear from you and that you'll give Vermilion another chance!
Written 26 October 2020
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Hannah C
Dublin15 contributions
Sept 2021 • none
Having visited the Vermillion many times in the past, I was really looking forward to going for dinner this time. However, the whole experience was extremely dissatisfying, and I am sorry to say- I will not visit again. As a group, we eat Indian food very regularly and don't mind paying a little more for quality food and an enjoyable dining experience. Vermillion used to be a little pricer than average, but for top quality food.
On this occasion, out of a table of 5 of us, only one person enjoyed their meal. I paid 17 euro for a small vegetarian curry, followed by an additional 4 euro for rice. That is a total of 21 euro for mediocre rice and vegetables. Others paid 25 euro for a curry with chicken.
One curry was left virtually untouched, and the waiting staff didn't ask if anything was wrong, or why the food had not been eaten. In contrast, we felt almost hounded by the waiting staff when it came to ordering desserts, as they came over repeatedly in a short space of time, after we had requested a few minutes to let our dinner go down. Everyone in the group felt irritated by these interactions, and after asking for a few minutes on a second occassion, the server was quite abrupt, which left us wondering if there was time limit that we hadn't been informed of.
I'm very disappointed to write this review, as Vermillion is somewhere we had been fond of in the past. But things seem to have gone terribly downhill in both the kitchen and floor staff and with the extortionate prices- we will not be back.
Written 8 October 2021
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EK57
Hi Hannah
I was shocked and very upset to learn about your experience in your recent visit to Vermilion. I’m sorry you decided to post this here and on a number of social media platforms rather than make your complaint on the night and give us a chance to address any of the issues at the time, when the staff would have been more than happy to try to fix things for you and your group. As you don't really specify what you didn't enjoy about the food it is very difficult for us to investigate this properly with the chefs and to see if changes need to be made. We have the same chefs in our restaurant for the past many years so it would be very helpful to know what you feel had changed.
As with the majority of restaurants in Ireland we have had to increase our prices slightly since reopening - all our operational costs (chicken, lamb, utilitities, staff costs, wine) have all increased hugely and we had no option but to increase our own prices slightly. To give you a couple of examples of changes over the past 18 months – since the pandemic started, chicken has increased by 40% while we only changed our prices by about 5%. We are also operating at a greatly reduced capacity due to extra spacing for social distancing. We had to remove Early Bird because it’s simply not viable right now and more recently we have stopped doing deliveries due to staff and driver shortages.
Regarding excessive food not consumed, all staff are trained to enquire if for any reason they see a dish returned to the kitchen without much of it eaten so I apologise for this oversight. On the particular Thursday night that you visited, we were a little understaffed but businesses are still struggling with staff shortages and to find their feet since returning since the pandemic and, unfortunately, sometimes mistakes can be made. At Vermilion we pride ourselves in our high levels of customer service and it truly upsets us when a customer leaves less than totally happy with their experience and, just to say again, had you complained at the time we would have done all in our power to make things right. I am genuinely sorry to hear you say that you wouldn't return to Vermilion and I'd really like to talk to you about your experience in more detail if you are willing to do so. If so, I'd be grateful if you could email emer@vermilion.ie with contact details.
Written 12 October 2021
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Escape29977020053
2 contributions
Jul 2020 • couples
Absolutely fabulous restaurant, by far the best Indian cuisine in Dublin and one I will continue to visit for many years to come. The food is fresh, and the service exemplary. The staff couldn't be more helpful and will explain anything on the menu and help you make your mind up.
It is super clean, i saw staff spend time cleaning tables, chairs, menus after each customer and hand sanitize their hands between tables. The seating is spaced out in line with Covid guidelines and it was a great meal from start to finish. A must visit. I'd recommend booking ahead.
Written 8 July 2020
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Shane Seery
11 contributions
Jan 2020 • family
This is a second visit to Vermillion. The last visit was back in 2014 for a Birthday. I have since left Ireland and now live in Dubai so Indian food is a big culture for me over there. When I decided to travel home for Christmas 2019, I made sure the family would make a visit to Vermillion.
Needless to say... we were not disappointed. The service from waiter Cornelius was second to none. He is a credit to the team here in Vermillion. It is people like him that will make me return in future when I am home.
A long with this, the Chefs paid particular attention to my brothers girlfriends request of no dairy products.
Absolutely not a single bad word to say about the restaurant.
5* from me. Happy New Year to the Vermillion Team.
Shane
Written 2 January 2020
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GPC
Dublin78 contributions
Jun 2020 • couples
Vermilion at home .. top class. Super service by Eoin on the front desk - was able to recommend a nice dish and the quality of food was excellent. Will certainly be back. Great value for money.
Written 13 June 2020
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Trish M
Dublin26 contributions
Oct 2021 • none
It's great to have indoor dining back and to be able to revisit all my favourite places. Some have changed during lockdown with different or reduced menus but happily Vermilion isn't one of them. Excellent meal there last weekend. My favourite samosa starter is still so good. Three of us ordered three dishes to share - one lamb, chicken, fish - and all were delicious. Helpings are still generous and the food arrived good and hot. For those still nervous about indoor dining this restaurant is large and spacious with very good distancing between tables. Service was efficient but not intrusive. All in all a great night out.
Written 11 October 2021
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Lauren St Leger
London205 contributions
Jan 2020 • none
We always order a takeaway from here when we visit family in Dublin, it’s without the best Indian food I’ve had.
This time it was nice to visit the restaurant for a meal and enjoy the excellent service.
The quality of the ingredients they use and the flavours in each dish are incredible. It’s a lot more than your average Indian restaurant.
I’m already looking forward to our next visit.
Written 27 February 2020
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Heather12
Dublin125 contributions
Jun 2020 • couples
Fantastic experience at Vermillion as always. We arrived at 6.30, we thought we could avail of the early bird but they have changed their policy (though have not updated their website), however he kindly still allowed to order from that menu. Everything was delicious, especially the Vegetable Makenwala. The staff were attentive and friendly. The restaurant is also BYOB (€6 corkage). (Also well set up in terms of covid-19 safety). We will definitely we back again!
Written 30 June 2020
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acsakshay
Dublin16 contributions
Feb 2020 • none
I have been here couple of times and did not much enjoy food. Especially being a Vegetarian they do not have much options and as well if you wish to enjoy any Fried options like Samosa's they are fried in the same Oil as meat. So definitely a NO NO for these options. Also, they use Egg for their Naan which takes away all the goodness of a Naan.
An occasional meal place but not recommended.
Written 5 September 2020
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EK57
I'm sorry to hear you didn't feel we had enough vegetarian options on our menu - we have 7 main course options and a further 6 side dishes that can be ordered as main course which gives a total of 13 vegetarian main course options. It is not true that our vegetarian starters are fried in the same oil as meat - that is not something we would ever do (and we don't even have any fried meat starters!!). We use only the best quality, freshest oil. Also, sorry to hear that you felt the naan bread wasn't great - our naan is something that most of our customers rave about but, of course, not everyone has the same taste and that is why we have a vegan naan option which has no egg in it so perhaps you might like to choose that next time? We do hope you visit again and enjoy your experience more next time.
Written 7 September 2020
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Anthony
Dublin46 contributions
Jul 2020 • couples
Top quality food and great service. Highly recommend chicken tikka masala, pilau rice. Their naan breads are super fresh. Super friendly service, very clean. Plenty of space between customers and tables and menus disinfected after every customer. Book ahead as they won't allow too many to keep in line with guidelines. I'll be back soon. Best Indian around.
Written 8 July 2020
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Turlough K
2 contributions
Oct 2022 • none
My family and I got a takeaway from the Vermilion on Saturday last and were very disappointed with the standard of the food. The sauce was weak and runny with no vegtables included in the sauce. This was very poor for a restaurant which prides itself on the quality of the food and which in the past has been very good. I feel the standards have definately slipped.
Written 3 October 2022
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Derek B
Dublin257 contributions
Jul 2022 • couples
Really enjoyed our return visit to Vermilion after a long interval. Delighted that we did, because it was every bit as good as we remembered. Delightful food, full of flavour, served by lovely staff. Be careful, and watch out for the little chilli symbols - this is an Indian restaurant and can be spicy for Irish tastes. But the flavours ! Poppadoms and a mango (??) dip to start was delicious. Plenty of choice, and everything we ate was superb. Very Highly Recommended.
Written 23 July 2022
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