Category: Takeaways
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Review: The Real Bone Broth Food Stall
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…
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What are you eating this summer? Neon's Chu Chee Curry
Here’s a quick recommendation from my favourite local takeaway, Neon on Camden Street. The Chu Chee curry. F**k yeah. Cheap? Meh, not particularly, takeaways are rarely cheap. But this curry – extra hot, with vegetables, lime leaves, hot chilli paste, and your choice of chicken, beef, tiger prawns and tofu – was a stark and…
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Go Stir Crazy on Dame Street
Sometimes, you just need to eat. In such circumstances, you might find yourself getting a deli roll in a convenience store; this is the taste of disappointment. I got a Spar roll for a hike on Sunday. It was multi-grain and everything, so I managed to delude myself that it would be tasty and healthy…
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Camile Thai: not cheap, but great special offers
In Dublin, it’s easy to find cheap Chinese, Korean, Indian, Vietnamese, and even Japanese eats. Thai food remains, by and large, relatively expensive. This shows no sign of changing. Sadly, one of the nicest Thai restaurants around, Camile in Rathmines, have put up their prices and taken away their free ice cream machine. The €5 kids…
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Review: Little Ass Burrito Bar, Dawson Street
Burritos: it’s probably as exciting as sun-dried tomatoes hit the shores in the mid-1990s, or when pizza arrived in Ireland, which must have been sometime in the 1970s. Now cheap burritos are everywhere: Burritos and Blues on South Anne Street and Wexford Street, Pablo Picante’s on Baggot Street and Clarendon Market, Boojum on the Millenium Walkway.…
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Review: Neon, Camden St – Asian Street Food
Some really interesting new restaurants have sprung up around Dublin in the last year or so, and I was really pleased to hear about one in particular that’s doing ‘Asian street food’ – Neon on Camden St. I’ve often bemoaned the lack of affordable Thai, Japanese and Vietnamese food in Ireland. It’s starting to catch…
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Review: Olive Green, Lower Baggot Street
Pity the miserable denizens of that bleak stretch of Dublin I call Middle Baggot Street, a place dominated by the hulking Bank of Ireland headquarters and a series of grey office buildings. Other Baggoty workers looking for lunch or coffee, either on the upper (before the canal) and lower (after Pembroke Street) sides, can head to…
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Diep, redeemed
Just a quick note to say that, following a spectacularly poor performance from Diep’s Blackrock branch, they have redeemed themselves. Last week, Jean and I had a very enjoyable meal from the Ranelagh branch. The manager was genuinely apologetic about the poor customer service I’d previously received, and generously provided two mains and two starters.…
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Review: Wak Inn, Dublin city
Fast food makes me sad, mostly. But sometimes it’s necessary, whether you want it or not. Like a few months ago when I was running late for a gig and jumped off the bus only to remember I’d forgotten to eat. My options were narrow: burger or kebab. As a hoity-toity option I could have…
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Stag party pizza: Vitto’s, Carrick-on-Shannon
Hen parties, I’m told, begin with a really good meal. Stags have lower, baser desires, demanding little more than stomach lining. I was on best man duty for a stag party recently. After a white water rafting session which consisted of 15 men trying to drown each other – it was brilliant and exhausting and…