I barely need to write this review because if you know anything about food you could look at the pictures and figure out that this was a culinary experience of the highest order. This was lunch on a Saturday during the Christmas period where restaurants have a tendency to fire out any old shit en […]

10 years ago

Everybody loves Pizza. I don’t know anybody who doesn’t. So when I heard that the people behind Crackbird Dublin had opened a new pizza only restaurant called Skinflint I knew that I had to give it a bash for the first ever review here on the site. It’s located in the original CrackBird premises down […]

10 years ago

My good mate Sean had just won a few quid gambling so we decided to splash out and have a Christmas / New Year lunch in one of the posher restaurants in Dublin city center. He suggested The Cliff Town House as he has a strange obsession with shellfish. I’m glad he was paying as […]

10 years ago

I started this blog to help me discover great food right on my own door step and that is what happened when I stumbled in to the Camden Kitchen on a cold late January evening. I always feel sorry for restaurants at this time of year because everybody is broke and eating out is the […]

10 years ago

When you work in a kitchen you come across a huge range of characters. I started my days cooking many moons ago in Peacock Alley the Michelin stared restaurant belonging to the infamous Conrad Gallagher. Say what you want about Gallagher these days but he changed the face of cooking in Ireland taking us all […]

10 years ago

I’m really fucking scared doing this review. It’s my favorite restaurant in Dublin but as always I’ll review it only on the experience I have on the day rather than any previous visits. I’m eating out with my cousin Barry who is only in town for the night over from New York and as a […]

10 years ago

When I started catering college at 17 I got bored pretty quickly. They basically give you a full 3 hours to make a pot of soup for 4 fake customers and teach you theory about salmonella, Ecoli and other irrelevant shit like that. I wanted to learn and get to the top fast so I […]

10 years ago

You’ll find Italian food in pretty much every city in the world. It’s mostly shite. Watered down crap that has been adapted to sell to the mass market. Real Italian restaurants are few and far between but Il Primo where I ate this week is the real deal. The thing about Italian food is that […]

10 years ago

Breakfast is a very particular thing. You always wake up hungry and you usually have a craving for something very particular. Breakfast at the weekends is like the holy grail for me. It’s the only time that the phone stops ringing, the emails dry up and I can finally sit down and take a deep […]

10 years ago

I love Italian food and after declaring Il Primo the best Italian in Dublin I set out on my mission to find somewhere better this week. My journey took me to San Lorenzo on South Great George’s Street which is a long and thin room that is beautifully designed with lots of wood on show. […]

10 years ago

I started this blog for the purely selfish reason of wanting to discover good food and fuck me that has worked out well and with a cherry on top. Rather than sticking with my usual haunts I’ve been pushed to try different places and to push the envelope (I don’t even know if that is […]

10 years ago

This week’s restaurant review is short and sweet. I’ve eaten roughly 10 times in the Green Hen in the last year. I’ve brought friends there. Family. Eaten at the bar. Tweeted photos of the amazing food and I’ve even fucking sent loads of people there as a personal suggestion of the one hip place to […]

10 years ago

Something very rare happened in Dublin this week. Summer arrived on time and for a sustained period of 4 days in a row. Even if this was all we got for the year you get the impression Irish people would be happy out. It’s been a fucking scorcher and the mood of the nation has […]

10 years ago

Every week we encourage users to share their photos of everything they see in Dublin with the hashtag #lovindublin on Instagram. There are now over 6000 photos there and they focus mainly on food, drinks, nights out, the city, sunsets and other great snaps that people want to share. It helps people find new stuff […]

10 years ago

If you are like me and have an incredibly sweet tooth then the last course when having a meal out will be the highlight. A good dessert can often cap a dining experience and turn it from run of the mill into highly memorable. Dublin has no shortage of great desserts on the menu but […]

10 years ago

In case you hadn’t noticed craft beer is taking over the world. What started off as a hipster trend in the likes of Portland, San Francisco and New York has quickly swept across the Atlantic. Dublin bars like Headline 57, Blackbird and P.Macs are suddenly the coolest spots in town as consumers shift their habits […]

10 years ago

One problem I have with restaurants in Dublin is that, because I have to review new places all the time, I never get the time to go back to the ones I really love the most. One of those places is The Greenhouse where, as I said when I reviewed it last year, the food […]

10 years ago

We love finding and sharing the best things in Dublin with you here on the blog but we also encourage you guys to take photos with #lovindublin on either Twitter or Instagram. The standard seems to get better every single week and just firing up the Hashtag has us drooling and loving the city we […]

10 years ago

We love sharing the latest news about Dublin here including recipes, gigs and events in the capital. We think Dublin is fast becoming one of the best cities in Europe if not in the entire world. Having said that it is important to remember where we have come from and how the city has grown […]

10 years ago

We all have a pretty standard selection of kitchen tools that we rely on and they look the same in most households. Every once in a while though we spot something that is so different and so unique that we have to share it with you guys. The Yolk Pig isn’t just practical but it […]

10 years ago

The guys over at Six Pixels have been busy with their drone over the last couple of months. We’ve seen them in Howth and down at the Poolbeg chimneys but they’ve saved their best work to date for this wet and dreary Monday morning when we all need cheering up the most. Drone footage is […]

10 years ago

I’ve left this post until just after dinner time because I don’t think anybody could feasibly eat anything after watching the video below. It is a scientific experiment showing what a Mcdonald’s cheeseburger looks like after hitting your stomach. The results are fairly gross and would make you think about popping into the drive thru […]

10 years ago

You’ve probably noticed that LEGO is incredibly popular online and one of the trends that just isn’t going to go away no matter how long it has been around. Well a Japanese designer called Akihiro Mizuuchi has taken things to the next level by combining it with chocolate to create these amazing edible LEGO pieces. This does […]

10 years ago

Most restaurants have extensive menus that give you lots of choice but they’ll often also have a signature dish that they are known for. Something that is always on the menu and a cut above the rest. Something that their customers have liked so much that they would simply never dare to remove it. We’ve […]

10 years ago

A restaurant in Denmark has come up with a unique way to solve the age old problem of tackling the table plan. If you’ve worked in a restaurant or even hovered around the front door long enough you’ll often see the manager or host with a furrowed brow looking at a clipboard trying to fit […]

10 years ago

There has been lots of debate about the Poolbeg Chimneys over the past month with people taking thousands of amazing pictures after hearing the iconic chimneys could be getting demolished. Well a new video shot using a drone captures them in a way that you’ll have never seen before both inside and out. It comes from […]

10 years ago

Brunch in Dublin is becoming a religion. People start discussing their weekend plans as early as Wednesday and finding the right place to eat the best meal of the week is now nearly important as the night out that proceeds it. As the city has come out of it’s shell over the last couple of […]

10 years ago

The conflict in Gaza has been splitting opinions around the world and one chain of Dublin wine bars (or you could call it a gastro pub) has decided to boycott all Israeli produce going forward. They say it is one small step that they can take to voice their concern about what is happening. This […]

10 years ago

Not much more to say really that isn’t said in the title. When somebody tried to steal money from a street performer on Grafton Street, who was dressed as spiderman making a few quid for himself, the street performer decided he wasn’t going to let the chap off lightly and started trading punches with him. We […]

10 years ago

When I worked in a professional kitchen one tool that I couldn’t live without was a good thermometer. They can be an absolute fucking life saver when it comes to getting meat cooked to perfection, prepping chocolate or a whole host of other pastry tasks. Chefs rely on them for lots of other things like […]

10 years ago

We like to create lots of unique content here on the site and do things a little differently which is why when we came to adding video content we tried to mix it up a little. Myself and Jamie are both big fans of tech and casual shows like Diggnation where people just shoot the […]

10 years ago

Just when you think Dublin is getting back to being a great city with more affordable food and a real cafe culture emerging along comes a reminder of the bad old days. We recently shared the 7.40 pint in Oliver St John Gogartys and while we thought that was bad it would appear that the original […]

10 years ago

When I started this blog I had no idea what it was going to become. It was a small site that posted restaurant reviews and forced me to eat in more new places and broaden my horizons. Since then things have just sort of snowballed to the point where we have an insanely good team, […]

10 years ago

When you arrive in a new city for the first time it can be super hard to get your bearings. You’ve probably read every guide book, researched the internet to death and asked for suggestions from friends but nothing prepares you for daunting experience of everything looking new. This week we want to share a […]

10 years ago

Every week we like to pick 10 of the best pictures that you guys share on both Twitter and Instagram using the #lovindublin hashtag. The quality of the pictures that you all share including food, drinks, events and Dublin in the sun put a huge smile on all our faces and help us all find […]

10 years ago

I love traveling and working in other cities trying to cherry pick some of the best things that we could incorporate into Dublin. People often get angry saying Dublin should stay exactly as it is but I don’t want to change what we have because it is unique, friendly and on the up, but having […]

10 years ago

Maybe it is because I am a chef and I like doing things the right, way but I’ve been getting annoyed by seeing some ridiculous kitchen gadgets of late that are on sale to help the budding home cook. You’d have to think that most of these are gimmicks and that they’d only ever be […]

10 years ago

We love finding and sharing the best things in Dublin with you here on the blog but we also encourage you guys to take photos with #lovindublin on either Twitter or Instagram. The standard seems to get better every single week and just firing up the Hashtag has us drooling and loving the city we […]

10 years ago

When we wrote a piece about the best burritos in Dublin there was no surprise that Boojum came out on top. They didn’t just pip the others at the post but actually won by a country mile. The chain which has shops in Belfast and Galway have always served great burritos down by the quays […]

10 years ago

Ingredients Rice Prawns Ham Eggs Soy Sauce Frozen Peas Onion Do you ever have that moment where you look into the fridge and even though there are a shit load of ingredients you just don’t have a clue what to make? Well the good news is that there is a solution with the incredible discovery […]

10 years ago

News reached Dublin this morning that the iconic Poolbeg chimneys are to be destroyed. The power station has been out of action for a couple of years and now it appears that the cost of maintaining them has outweighed the benefit of keeping them. For many they are one of the most iconic landmarks in […]

10 years ago

Ingredients Noodles Fillet of beef Green Peppers Green Chili Oyster Sauce Baby corn Sugar Snaps Ginger Garlic We all get into the habit of grabbing takeaway quite often and noodles are one of the main things that get served up all over the world. Although quick, simple and cheap I’ve noticed recently that a lot […]

10 years ago

Every week our photographer Caolan hits the streets to capture photos and short stories from some of the most interesting people in Dublin. This week the sun was out and he also bumped into somebody who is hitting the big time enjoying a well earned coffee after his travels. Enjoy… Emerging Star “I’m pretty jet-lagged. […]

10 years ago

Ingredients Flour wraps Tin of black beans Bacon Potatoes Chili Tomatoes Cheddar cheese Garlic Today we’ve combined two of the greatest things on earth (brunch and burritos) to come up with a classic recipe that is made for the weekend. You could go with a late lunch or depending on the level of your hangover […]

10 years ago

We love finding and sharing the best things in Dublin with you here on the blog but we also encourage you guys to take photos with #lovindublin on either Twitter or Instagram. The standard seems to get better every single week and just firing up the Hashtag has us drooling and loving the city we […]

10 years ago

The Irish Air Corps do great work on behalf of the country and the latest set of images they have shared on their Facebook page capture Dublin in a way that you just couldn’t imagine from the ground. We previously shared 8 gorgeous images they had posted but the air corps were up in the […]

10 years ago

Every couple of weeks social media lights up with pictures of another car crashing into the Luas. Although most are small prangs the problem seems to be getting worse which is why today Luas have launched their “What’s the Harm” campaign and shared the video below. It shows people in their cars running red lights […]

10 years ago

Ingredients Chicken breasts Chickpeas Sugar Snaps Pomegranate Garlic Chili Coriander Cos Lettuce If keeping fit is hard then eating the right food as well is even tougher. One thing that we are all told is that protein helps to re-build muscles and help the body recovery. You see some people eating those absolutely rotten protein […]

10 years ago

Its been a pretty crazy 6 months for Lovin Dublin as the site, brand and community continues to grow. What started out as a small personal blog has quickly grown into a small business that now employs 4 people full time (and a couple more part time) and we’d like to add a 5th very […]

10 years ago

We love finding and sharing the best things in Dublin with you here on the blog but we also encourage you guys to take photos with #lovindublin on either Twitter or Instagram. The standard seems to get better every single week and just firing up the Hashtag has us drooling and loving the city we […]

10 years ago