On this overcast Monday as we nurse our bank holiday wounds and ask ourselves, “is it covid or am I just hungover?”, we’ve found something to add to the fear. You might have a sore head this Monday, but hopefully your wallet isn’t hurting as much as those who spent their weekend in Temple Bar. […]

4 years ago

The national St Patrick’s Day Parade will be returning to the streets of Dublin city for the first time since 2019. Here’s a list of all the burning questions you might have about this year’s Patrick’s Day parade: What exactly is the parade? It’s a national celebration that happens each year, on March 17th the […]

4 years ago

Playing ping pong at an Allstar tournament, Tonkatsu Sandos to icey coffees. The Food The Spesh from Fable + Stey Blackrock, 24 Newtown Park Tonkatsu Sando made up by Blackrockers Fable + Stay looks every inch of sandwich heaven. Made up with panko-breaded pork chops, tonkatsu sauce with wasabi + kewpie mayo coleslaw is served […]

4 years ago

With zero compromise on taste, tg. Not to state the glaringly obvious or anything, but Dublin is an expensive aul city to be in these days. It feels like merely stepping outside your front door costs roughly €23, and that’s before topping up your leapcard or buying your silly little €4.50 coffee or anything. Luckily, […]

4 years ago

Brazilian Carnival, hedge foraging, a Tandoori spiced vegetable and a drink with a piece of orange rind attached to the glass. The Food Charred Aubergine Woodruff, Enniskerry Road, Stepaside There are few vegetables that we feel sorry for more, than the aubergine. Far too often it’s macerated into a sloppy paste or hacked into chunks […]

4 years ago

It doesn’t need to be a Monday for us to appreciate margaritas in all their glory. February 22nd is officially National Margarita Day, and we believe it’s only right that you celebrate with a glass of something salt rimmed and shaken in hand. Here’s a list of 7 of our favourite places in Dublin for […]

4 years ago

Welcome to What I eat in a week in Dublin, where we find out what Dubliners are having. We’re asking people who live in this fine city what they are really having for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. This isn’t a platform for lecturing or snarky comments, just a place for foodies to tell us what they […]

4 years ago

Drink some angel hair, eat some deep-fried nostalgic dessert and get tickets to a once-off festival. The Food Try the DL’s cubed tapioca The DL, 6 Crow St, Temple Bar.  Cast your mind back to the first mention of tapioca, it would probably dredge up images of a milky substance with clumps of starchy spheres […]

4 years ago

After almost two years, Ebb & Flow Coffee return to their old stomping ground in Clontarf. Ebb & Flow Coffee shut its doors for good back in 2020 in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. Their last post was on May 1st 2020, and then their Instagram went quiet. Until Saturday. The Clontarf café returned […]

4 years ago

The people of Rathfarnham and the general Nutgrove area have long raved about Jaru’s menu of fermented and Korean fried delights. A go-to takeaway for the area, locals were distraught when Jaru announced they’d be ceasing their takeout service at the end of last year. Since then, their heat-and-eat meals and dinner kits have meant […]

4 years ago

Love is in the air and in this list, which has an air of romance and free flowing pink wine about it. It’s how the duration of February should be, in my humble opinion. Random personal rant but a few years ago I went to a yoga class on Valentines Day and the teacher said […]

4 years ago

Is there an elder millennial in the Greater Dublin Area who doesn’t hold a special place in their hearts for Tripod? When I close my eyes I can still smell the sweetness of the vodka-and-burn combo which consistently permeated the place, feel the sticky patches underfoot and the condensation dripping from the exposed brick walls. […]

4 years ago