Category: Bargains & Special Offers
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Hot cross buns: stupid, cheap or delicious?
Hot cross buns are a waste of space. There is no justifiable reason why anyone would put one of these through their gobs at Easter time, just because it’s Easter time. If you are going to shovel something sweet into your face, it should be a proper cake or chocolate, not some silly little currant-filled…
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Peter’s Pricewatch Article: Best Value Outside Supermarkets?
Peter made passing reference yesterday to his article getting deals on food that appeared in this week’s Pricewatch in the Irish Times; but I think it’s worth a post of its own. In it he visits a range of retailers – ‘euro’ shops, ethnic shops and market stalls – to see how their prices compare…
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Product Review/Love Letter: Lidl Greek Yogurt
I have our commenter Deb to thank for tipping me off to this amazing stuff. Nearly a year ago, I wrote a post about healthy eating and using substitutions for heavy ingredients such as natural yogurt instead of sour cream. Deb commented: Lidl do an amazing Greek Yoghurt in a huge one litre tub. I…
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Cat Food – what is best?
My cat Kinky is really snooty. I only had to walk in with a box of Lidl cat food and she rejected it on the packaging alone. She won’t even use Lidl cat litter which isn’t such a bad thing because it doesn’t cover odours. Getting it right when it comes to feeding your cat…
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One (Pico) flawless lunch
Lunch is often eaten on the go. A quick plastic sandwich in plastic packaging, a bowl of soup, or a salad on the run. Occasionally, with friends and workmates in the pub or cafe. But anybody who’s ever taken the afternoon off knows that a good long lunch, properly enjoyed, is one of life’s greatest…
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The sad return of bottled water
Water shortages are continuing to disrupt people’s daily lives. All throughout Ireland, but especially in Dublin, our clapped out water infrastructure has finally wheezed a sigh of relief and kicked the bucket. On holidays in Croatia a few years ago, a friend’s father gave us his gorgeous island home while he went on holidays. Not…
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Review: Chuan Chinese Restaurant, 120 Capel St
You’ll always find some of Dublin city’s cheapest food around the Parnell, Moore, and Capel Street areas. Over the years, this part of the north city centre has witnessed an explosion in some great Chinese, Korean, and other East Asian restaurants. Being skint like everybody, we headed there the other day in search of a…
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Reader’s Cafe turns it around
I wrote a post here a while back about one of the most rubbish offers I’d ever seen heralded by a cafe: €6.75 for scrambled eggs and tea. I passed by the same cafe the other day and was pleased to see that not only had they taken this ‘offer’ down, but had put up…
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Beshoff Bros’ Fish and Chips
We’ve already definitively established that Burdock’s offers the best fish and chips in Ireland. Nay, the world. But last week, I was wanderin’ round Baggot Street with a growling tummy and only a few coins in my pocket, so I went in to Beshoff Bros on the Mespil Road. For €6.95, I got a decent-sized…
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Review: The Cornstore, Cork
Review by Catriona McGrath: He Who Does Not Wish To Be Named and I had some time to kill before going to the cinema in Cork city, so we wandered around looking for some early birds. We settled on The Cornstore on Cornmarket Street. We didn’t get the early bird, but went instead for a…