Powerscourt Terrace Cafe

If you like Avoca cafes, you’ll like the Powerscourt restaurant. Good, fresh, quality food, top quality ingredients. All this in a busy and buzzy dining room overlooking the beautiful Powerscourt Gardens. A great place for a day trip from the smoke. Go.

It has a nice view of the Powerscourt garden. I had the main course with selection of salad for lunch, fruit salad was lovely. It was a very long queue before getting the food.

Great selection of salads, soups, and sandwiches. The soda bread here was also out favorite on the trip.
The coffee (Americano) was fantastic too.

Powerscourt Terrace is a nice little café establishment in the heart of Enniskerry.
There are a few things which I wanted to note for anyone not local to the area attempting to navigate here:
1: you’re going to have to follow signs, as you’ll have basically have zero cellphone reception until you get into powerscourt directly.
2: you do have free wifi in powerscourt, but still no cell signal — at least from 3.
The place has some nice choices as far as food — there are plenty of vegetarian options and effectively everything is designed around the concept of «main + 3 salads». I’m not saying do the sad vegetarian option of «you must have salad/​you must get a cobb salad without chicken», either. This main + salads idea is a concept all over Ireland, essentially — a main course for one price, and a separate price for that main course with 3 sides. Sadly, the concept basically requires the salads — as you’ll commonly find that the main course is a bit small, even for Euro sized meals.
This doesn’t mean you’ll be missing anything, though — as thankfully the salads happen to be absolutely excellent. I happened to try an Edamame and Chickpea salad as one of the choices I had, and it was pretty well made. To complement that was a cooked broccoli, feta and tomato salad along with an asian inspired noodle salad — all of these went perfectly with the spinach quiche I selected.
Wifey had the Edamame Chickpea salad as well, but chose a carrot salad along with an awesome lentil loaf — all complemented with an Elderflower drink.
Meals are rotated, so I’m not honestly sure if you would see these same main course options as it probably rotates throughout any given day or week. I would suspect the salads probably stay the same, as I noticed the same options in Avoca/​Arklow/​Gorey at a number of restaurants as well.
What does this all add up to? Well, it boils down to an experience like this:
You have pretty good food choices that are pretty well made, which are noticeably pricey. All the while you eat these whether indoors or outdoors wasps are going to try to eat your meal with you, so I sincerely hope nobody going here has a wasp allergy. This goes on with hilariously terrible wifi coverage. It was 38 EUR for the two of us.
So basically tourist establishment + pricey but nice food and nice places to sit. Oh, and make sure you don’t mix it up with the fast food equivalent just next door to the actual café.

We were advised, by Unilocal’s Marie B in Dublin, to eat here while visiting the Powerscourt Gardens. Great recommendation!
The food was nice. Quiche, salads, special sandwiches, good desserts. Service is via a cafeteria style system, but the food is still fresh and hot. Wine available too.
The highlight is dining on the terrace overlooking Powerscourt’s fabulous gardens. When the sun is shinning, it’s absolutely perfect. (We were advised we were there on one of the rare days when the sun IS shinning.)

The café has a delicious selection of fresh salads, sandwiches, and soups. One of the best deals was the selection of three different salads and a soup for € 10. I opted for a sandwich and was surprised by how fresh the pastrami and rocket (arugula) baguette was. Extra points for the zesty lemon mayo. The daily menu featured a seafood chowder for € 1 more, but it was well worth it. The chowder was chock-​full of salmon and cod. The broth was rich and I loved the thick slice of brown bread that accompanied the chowder. The portions are generous and kept me full for only around € 11. It would be lovely to be able to sit outside on the terrace to have lunch overlooking the gardens on a nice day.

Great quality delicious food and very moreish deserts, bit pricey but large portions so kind of compensates. Lots of variety and huge range of deserts. Relaxed atmosphere, and you can
Leisurely sit around after lunch enjoying a coffee or desert.