Category: Dinners under €10
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Review: Camden Rotisserie, Dublin
The former gastronomic black hole that was Camden Street has developed a nice little cheap eats scene. Green19, where all mains cost €10, is well established. Neon‘s take on Asian street food has proven popular. Cafe Sofia deserves more praise, more often. Camden Rotisserie, which serves rotisserie chicken, also struck me as reasonably priced when…
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Review: Crave, Aungier Street
Crave is a relatively new cafe, full of gorgeous mismatched chairs and design that create a lively, bright interior. It serves pitta breads full of yummy gorgeousness. I hear that the hipster wave of acceptance washed over Crave a few months ago, but all waves pass and break. Colin and I strolled in for lunch…
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Review: Pho Viet, Parnell St, Dublin
I’ve expressed my love for Vietnamese food here before; it’s so fresh, delicate and healthy. Vietnamese food was fairly poorly represented on the streets of Dublin until recent years, when new places like Neon and Aobaba started springing up. They’re very welcome, it’s a great cuisine and can be very affordable. There’s a new spot…
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Review: Musashi, Capel St
I still dream entirely in complicated Japanese symbols. Jean and I had an amazing time there last May; I loved everything about the place. But I grumbled all the way home: Japanese food in Ireland could never match up to the real thing. I’d tried all the Japanese restaurants in Ireland and, frankly, none of…
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Review: Breakfast in Cafe Sofia, Wexford Street, Dublin 2
Saturday afternoon. Courtesy of my demon friend Simon, I was very hungover. I’d also had around 10,000 miles between me and an Irish breakfast for four months. I wanted a real greasy spoon operation – no fancy herbed sausages or pestos or relishes on sourdough or the like. No. I wanted the type of breakfast…
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Skinflint’s firebee honey
See? It still looks like I’m here in Ireland, but I actually wrote this in the past and sent it for publication to the future. Right now, I should be somewhere in Japan. Anyway… last month, Kat from The Purple Page blog brought a long-overdue review of Skinflint, Joe Macken’s pizza joint, to these pages.…
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Dinners for €10 or less
Eating out in London is astonishingly cheap. It’s very easy to get a decent feed for well under £10: over Patrick’s weekend, we comfortably found a sit-down, table service Thai restaurant serving decent mains at around £6.50-8 (around €7.80-€9.60) and a lovely Italian trattoria with the same prices. There was no shortage of Greek, Indian,…
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Dinners under €10 reviewed: The Pygmalion Restaurant
Today, we launch a new category on Cheapeats: dinners under €10. In particular, we’re talking about proper, sit-down meals, so we’re leaving out fast food options. We’re excluding lunches: it’s easy to find a lunch under €10. Also out of consideration are early birds, one-off special offers and meals bought using coupon sites such as…
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Downstairs in Fallon and Byrne
I’ll keep this one brief. If you’re shopping in Dublin and need a good value lunch or dinner pitstop, check out Fallon and Byrne‘s food options. The pre-theatre deal is off until January, to be replaced by a much more expensive “Christmas menu”- it’s €38 instead of €28.81, plus a €5 supplement for the steak.…
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Restaurant Review: Green Nineteen, Camden St.
Every Wednesday evening, I drag myself up from hibernation in Wicklow to attend a class near Camden St. This is a pretty cool street, with its own style and personality, one-off shops, and good bargains. It’s also probably Dublin’s best drinking spot. However, it’s always been somewhat of a culinary wasteland, with its eateries mostly…