Category: Restaurants

  • Review: The Real Bone Broth Food Stall

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    Marlay Park is one of the best public parks in the whole of south Dublin. Easily accessible from the city centre (where I live), just off the M50, and close to both the west and east parts of south county Dublin, it has a popular weekend food market with plenty of eating choices. There’s also…

  • Cheap and healthy eating out for January?

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    Our reader Mary asked us the following question this week: As it is the New Year and I am carrying a bit more body weight than before, I am on the hunt for restaurants in Dublin that have healthy food options and are cheap. For example I am looking for somewhere that would do omelettes…

  • BBQ Dublin: Pitt Bros vs Bison Bar

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    peter
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    Holy smokes! A decent BBQ restaurant has been high up the wishlist for many years, and now Dublin has four: the Bison Bar on Wellington Quay, Pitt Bros on George’s Street, the Aussie BBQ on Richmond Street (I’ve yet to pull some pork from the Aussie BBQ but, based on this review from Niall Harbison…

  • Review: Worscht, George's Street Arcade, Dublin

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    We nipped into the newly opened Worscht in George’s St Arcade recently after a day of helping to renovate my sister’s new city centre office. We were starving and felt we deserved something totally lecker (that’s ‘delicious’ auf Deutsch) and what could be better than a big ol’ sausie. I LOVE sausages so I was…

  • Review: Umi Falafel, Dame St

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    Jean
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    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…

  • Luncheonette in NCAD, Thomas St

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    Jean
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    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…

  • Lunch in Baan Thai, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4

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    peter
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    Ballsbridge, in the heart of Dublin 4, is an affluent area with fancy houses, and thousands of office workers looking for lunch every Monday to Friday. But until relatively recent times, it was crying out for as much as a decent sandwich. Roly’s Cafe and Bistro is a prominent option, but there’s a much better…

  • 777: Delicious group meal, shame about the small print

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    Jean
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    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…

  • Lunch in the Bison Bar

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    Jean
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    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…

  • Lunch at Chez Max: CHEESE MAX!

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    Jean
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    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…