Author: Jean
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The Mummypages Mum's Baking Book
Our pals at MummyPages.ie have this lovely book on sale for Christmas, featuring 50 recipes that were crowd-sourced from the MummyPages online community. All the proceeds from the Mum’s Baking Book are going to FARA Ireland and the Sam McMahon Trust. Cake! Good causes! Win win. Buy it for your own Christmas stocking. The MummyPages…
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Review: Umi Falafel, Dame St
Much as deep-frying the humble potato turns it into the glorious chip, deep-frying wads of chickpeas and herbs turn them into falafel, a fantastic spectacular wonder food. It’s possible to get decent falafel in a few places around Dublin, but I always felt they weren’t getting the respect they deserve. So I was really pleased…
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Luncheonette in NCAD, Thomas St
Luncheonette is a new cafe in the basement canteen of the National College of Art and Design on Thomas St, and it’s a gem. I won’t pretend to write an objective review as it’s been set up by a friend of mine, but I hope my many years of guffing off about food here have…
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777: Delicious group meal, shame about the small print
We’ve reviewed 777 Mexican restaurant here before, so I didn’t have a review in mind when I went for a group meal there on Saturday last. One of my dearest and oldest friends Clare had her hen party there, and the food turned out to be so tremendous I wanted to quickly post about it…
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Lunch in the Bison Bar
The Bison Bar, on Dublin’s Wellington Quay, is inviting at the best of times, with its many comfortable niches to sit in and its wide range of delicious whiskeys. On a cold rainy Friday recently I ran down there to meet some friends for lunch, and was very very glad that I did. It was…
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'Put the Kettle On' Competition Winners
Huge thanks to everyone who entered our ‘Put the Kettle On’ competition – the three winners of this gorgeous book by Juanita Browne about the Irish love affair with tea, are after the jump!
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Competition: 3 Copies of 'Put The Kettle On: The Irish Love Affair With Tea' to be Won
‘Put the Kettle On: The Irish Love Affair with Tea‘ is a brand new book by Juanita Browne, which tracks the Irish obsession with a hot drop. We Irish are only bleedin mad for tea, and are the highest consumers of it per head of population in the world. It’s used for everything from a…
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Lunch at Chez Max: CHEESE MAX!
Chez Max is a French restaurant in Dublin with branches on Baggot St and Palace St beside Dublin Castle. I took my little girl there once and she referred to it afterwards as ‘Cheese Max’, which I think is one of the most apt mispronunciations ever. I recently went to their Baggot St restaurant for…
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Ellen's Cake Update: The Cake Cafe & The Green Bench
Our pal Ellen was in touch last week to ask where to buy tasty, tasty cakes in Dublin 2. Y’all helped out like the stars that you are, and Ellen sent on her Big Tasty Cake report today. Plus some thoughts about the Great British Bake Off. I got a carrot cake slice from the…
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Where's the Best Cake in Dublin 2?
It’s a bona fide cake emergency. Our good friend Ellen got in touch to ask: where’s the best cake in Dublin 2? Yesterday at work my mate suggested we buy cakes to bring home and eat whilst watching the Great British Bake Off. She’s evil that one, and also a genius. We tried one cake…