Ingredients Fish Fingers Good Bread Mayo Gherkins Capers Lemon Mushy Peas Parsley Sunday is a day that I automatically just go for brunch and eat out somewhere enjoying the Sunday papers. When I woke up today though I had a bad dose of the flu and all I could do was make it down to […]

10 years ago

I’ve worked in kitchens for a decade and although I’ve seen hundreds of people try to capture the atmosphere for a kitchen on the large screen and small nobody has ever really gotten it right. Not even close actually. There have been many poor attempts but you’d have to say the worst by far was […]

10 years ago

Pasta is like a religion to me. When I worked on boats I spent a good 2 years of my life combined in Italy which I consider to be the greatest country on the planet. Yeah sure they are often said to be as crooked as hell and their prime minister hosted Bunga Bunga parties […]

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

I’m a bit of a weird creature in that I work very unusual hours and often only really get going in the evening when others have switched off for the day. Being in the tech and food space I don’t like to confine myself to one particular place and find the creative juices flow better […]

10 years ago

You can’t walk around a corner in Dublin these days without seeing some sort of craft beer. The big breweries are caught in a tizzy between shitting themselves over declining market share, creating their own beers or acquiring smaller breweries trying to hijack the movement. Consumer sentiment is changing and although the big beer brands […]

10 years ago

Things really aren’t meant to work out this way. Not only do we have an extremely long weekend but for those who have stayed in Dublin the sun is also splitting the skies as spring starts to feel decidedly like summer. Twitter and Instagram are exploding with incredible photos of our little city shared by […]

10 years ago

We normally only do one post a week with the best photos from Dubliner’s but with the long weekend and the weather kicking into summer mode early we decided to share a few more. All our social media feeds have been lighting up with amazing snaps as people walk around eating endless ice cream and […]

10 years ago

Ingredients Monkfish Large Potatoes Garlic Chili Bok Choi Kale Lemons Why is it that everybody is shit scared of cooking fish at home? So much so that the vast majority of people only eat it out in restaurants because they just wouldn’t know where to start at home. Fear not this 10 minute epic little […]

10 years ago

Ingredients Fresh Pasta Parmesan Cheese Sea Bass Fillets Semi Sun Dried Tomatoes Artichokes In Oil Basil Garlic Asparagus Spring is in the air in Dublin. With a little heat on my back I ventured out into the garden and decided it was time to eat al fresco for the first time. It wasn’t the worst […]

10 years ago

Last week we let the world know about a new direction we were heading by bringing on a photographer to help us capture this remarkable city of ours and bring it to life. Little did we know that he also had the power to bend the weather to his will delivering what is without question […]

10 years ago

Ingredients Fresh Tuna Loin Fresh Salmon Soy Sauce Wasabi (Fresh Or Powder) Pickled Ginger I am on a bit of a health buzz at the moment and I went in to get some sashimi in town this week. It was delicious but as I sat there eating 4 pieces of raw fish for a tenner […]

10 years ago

The whole city has gone absolutely brunch fucking mad. I remember the days a few years ago when Odessa was pretty much the only place in town that did a decent brunch menu and had a buzzing room. Something happened though recently and every Dubliner suddenly realised what the rest of the world knew…brunch is […]

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

Dublin is an incredible little part of the world. We spend lots of time writing reviews and sharing lists of great things to do here. Sometimes though photos can tell a more powerful story than words ever could. Lovin Dublin photographer Caolan Barron will be out and about every week capturing a series of street […]

10 years ago

Ingredients Avocado Pre Cooked Prawns Lemon Really Good Bread 1 Red Chilli Garlic Coriander Chilli Cheese We’ve all gotten into the habit of going out for brunch but there is absolutely no reason why we can’t be making it at home and having it turn our just as nice (and far cheaper) than the fancy […]

10 years ago

You probably know Donal Skehan as that spiky-haired, trendy dude from the telly. Always smiling. I’m interested in celebrity chefs and how they turn their mass appeal into a few bucks. We talked about celeb chefs teaming up with supermarkets or, like most do, just slapping their own name onto a product to help drive […]

10 years ago

Food trends seem to come in waves in our little capital city. We had cupcakes, burritos and the city is now drowning in a sea of slick new cocktails and craft beers. The biggest trend at the moment though is pulled pork – you can’t turn a corner without seeing a different variation of the […]

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

Ingredients Chicken Breast Baguette Or Ciabatta Garlic Mayo Lemon Anchovy Fillets Cos Salad Parmesan Cheese I was coming home this evening absolutely fucking ravishing with hunger after a day spent on the run. Bored with all the usual stuff I wanted to create a sandwich that tasted among the best in the world but also […]

10 years ago

Ingredients Fresh Tuna Coriander Red Chillies Limes Bread (baguette works best) Olive oil Tuna tartare seems like one of those dishes that you’ll only ever get to eat in a restaurant, and even then you know it’ll always going to cost a fortune. I want to show you today just how simple it actually is […]

10 years ago

We’ve seen all sorts of slick videos highlighting Dublin using the latest techniques like time lapse, drones and high production values. The latest released this week uses words as a way of showing off this wonderful city of ours. In this beautiful video, Dublin slam poet Stephen James Smith recites, Louis MacNeice’s poem, ‘Dublin’ the […]

10 years ago

There were road closures in Dublin yesterday as water protesters shut down the roads around the city and one incident was seriously alarming in it’s nature with reports of people getting run over. Now there is video evidence of what appears to show one mad person driving over a gang of people and then driving […]

10 years ago

A small bakery in Brooklyn have taken the dessert wars to an entirely new level when it comes to create unique desserts. If you thought the cronut was a unique invention what till you see the… Nutellasagna. As you can probably guess it combines a whole bunch of sweet ingredients to make a lasagna that […]

10 years ago

I refuse to give into Christmas in November but by fucking god will I embrace it when it comes to December. It makes us all so happy and if I had my way I’d celebrate Christmas it every month. Sure don’t the retailers, pubs and restaurants need it badly! So this year I wanted to […]

10 years ago

My hero when I was working in the kitchen and studying cooking at college was always Marco Pierre White. He was the original “Celebrity Chef” before anybody even knew what that meant but more importantly he was the youngest chef to ever get 3 Michelin stars and trained hundreds of chefs including Gordon Ramsay. He […]

10 years ago

You may remember a couple of weeks ago we shared a video of a man on the bus talking about his drugs that went on to be a huge viral hit. Well our latest music hero is a young man rapping on the streets of Dublin. He is singing with Irish band Keywest and the […]

10 years ago

The Sydney International food festival have come up with a brilliantly unique way of promoting themselves by sharing the following series of photos using food turned into flags. Not just any food either because every flag features one of the national foods of that country in some of the best creative work we’ve seen in […]

10 years ago

This video was created by Trinity College to help capture the essence of the college while also attracting new students from all over the world. They’ve used drones to capture the scale of the place and it is a good reminder of what is behind that blue clock on College Green that many of us […]

10 years ago

The French are known to be an arrogant bunch. Cheese eating surrender monkeys (Groundkeeper Willie’s words, not mine) who spend more time going on strike than they do going to the toilet. Last time I checked I think they’d got their working week down to about 18 hours and they still weren’t happy. Having said […]

10 years ago

We filed the Lovin Dublin Live show and despite some brilliant speakers it was Bressie who stole the show with this moving and incredibly important speech he gave about mental health. There were a few people with tears in their eyes in the audience. Please do share it as it could help one person and […]

10 years ago

Ingredients White Wine Grapes I’m sure most of you will be in the position tonight where you get home from work with a bottle of wine that needs chilling before you can drink it. Nothing worse than warm white wine. You could pop it into the freezer for an hour or even throw a couple […]

10 years ago

San Lorenzos is fast becoming the must visit place for brunch in the capital with people being turned away every weekend from their buzzing restaurant. As I told them, one of the only reasons they missed out on the best brunch award at Lovin Dublin Live was because they were so new to the scene in terms […]

10 years ago

The docks are fast becoming the most desirable places for people to work in the capital. Google, Facebook and many start ups have their offices down there which has helped coin the groan inducing term of “The Silicon Docks”. With 10,000s of people working in the area you’d wonder where they could fit more people […]

10 years ago

I sold my home in Ranelagh during the summer. I did so for two reasons… Firstly, I thought it was a good time to sell and secondly, I’d grown tired of Ranelagh.  The first reason relates to the property market fluctuations and that can be argued until the cows come home but the second point is my own personal […]

10 years ago

Ingredients Smoked salmon Frozen peas Red Onions Garlic Mint Creme Fraiche Parmesan cheese Arborio rice Dash of white wine Chicken stock cubes Risotto is one of those dishes that most people love but that they don’t have the confidence to cook at home. Despite popular misconception there is no reason not to be cooking it in […]

10 years ago

I was walking through Dublin airport this morning (30th November remember) when I saw a huge group of women heading back to the UK after a hen weekend in Dublin. Every single one of them was wearing a Christmas jumper (some with lights) and it got me thinking about the whole trend and how annoying […]

10 years ago

Ingredients Ben & Jerry’s Chocolate Fudge Brownie Ice Cream Chocolate chip cookies Couldn’t get much easier really. Takes about 2 minutes from start to finish and perfect for a Sunday night in watching telly Instructions Step 1 Watch the video. Simples. Not going to lose much weight doing this recipe but fuck me its good.

10 years ago

Ingredients Minced beef Large baking potato Spinach Buffalo mozzarella Chilli flakes Tomato passata Red Onion Sunday is all about wholesome food. At least 50% of you will have been out last night (by my estimate, at least), so you’ll want something big and filling to soak up all the booze. The other 50% are health […]

10 years ago

Ingredients Beer Ice Salt Water Have you ever come home from the shops for a night of TV watching and suddenly discovered that your beer is warm and you’ll have to wait 30 minutes for it to cool down in the freezer? You’ll also probably forget about half of the bottles you put in the freezer and […]

10 years ago

This time last week we were all buzzing about the possibility of claiming a clean sweep of Autumn international tests at the Aviva. We didn’t know just how tense it would be but in the end we got there and completed a magical year of rugby for Ireland. 90% win rate equalling our best ever. […]

10 years ago

We’ve know about the increase in cash fares and leap cards for a few weeks but the reality is starting to set in now as prices are going up on Monday. Below are the numbers and what the 15% increase will actually mean for us all. Love the way they bring it in just before Christmas […]

10 years ago

I suspect, like me, you go onto the property websites sometimes and dream a little about where you might live one day if you won the Euro Millions. Last week we showed you the most expensive house in Dublin but this week we’ve halved the budget and you can pick up this little dream house for a […]

10 years ago

Most of us are super lucky and don’t end up in hospitals but it is an unfortunate fate that many of us will face at some stage. You read stuff in the media about waiting lists and the horrendous hospital conditions but I think we have an innate ability to block out what we don’t want to […]

10 years ago

Sports fans will recognise Muhammad Ali as possibly the greatest sports person ever. You could make a case for Pele, Sienna or Tiger. They are sports people who are bigger characters and transcend not just sport but life in general. In Ireland we have Keano, Katie and Rory to clutch to on the world stage. One that […]

10 years ago

This was year 1 of an event that we want to make into something much bigger. The feedback has been 99% positive but I spent the whole night listening to people and asking them what they’d do to make it better. You have to always improve and strive to be better. With that in mind […]

10 years ago

I organised an event last night (with the most wonderful team in the world) that was all about celebrating Ireland. I didn’t want to just have the usual circle jerk fest and wanted to get people thinking, be inspired and deal with issues that we all face but don’t talk about in Ireland. Jamie told us what […]

10 years ago

We held a bit of a aul show last night. People who came along seemed to have a good time. The heads are sore today. Pictures always say more than words ever could…

10 years ago

People give out all the time about social media and it does bring out a certain amount of bitchiness but the odd time it throws up a hero like this. Nothing we can add. Perfection. Fair play to #sparguy

10 years ago

We are less than 24 hours away from the first ever Lovin Dublin show live and the buzz is starting to build up. We’ve amazing speakers lined up to inspire us all, we also have a 25k prize for a start up, awards, an epic after party and restaurants all over town doing special menus before […]

10 years ago