We’ve been talking a lot about sandwiches this week from the best ones in Dublin right through to the latest trend of grilled cheese and Kale. If one sandwich stands above the others as the king it is the Club Sandwich which appears on the menus of hotels all over the world. It is the […]

10 years ago

It was only a matter of time really. First we traded in our one-on-ones with the butchers, bakers and candlestick makers for the larger supermarket chains that catered to our every need under one roof. Not the most romantic of notions but inevitable, given that smack bang in the middle of the recession, very few […]

10 years ago

As Ireland prepares to take on the enemy England at Twickenham, and Grand Slam whispers begin to spread across the country, there’s no time like the present to sit down with Vice Captain of our national rugby team, Jamie Heaslip, and talk preparation. While fans’ eyes remain firmly focused on what happens on the pitch, […]

10 years ago

We tend to pigeonhole Italian food into a couple of handy stereotypes. Pizza and Pasta. The reality of doing that is that it is like saying that everybody drinks Guinness in Ireland served with brown bread and cabbage. I’ve been hearing super things about Etto from people around town but wanted to give it a […]

10 years ago

Ingredients Scallops Black Pudding Green Salad (Fancy Stuff) 2 Apples Really Good Balsamic Sugar We go to restaurants because they can cook fancy ass shit that none of us can make at home. I’ve seen this starter on menus hundreds of times with slightly different tweaks and it usually costs about 15 Euros to eat. […]

10 years ago

We are always trying to find new ways to deliver content here on the site. The way I think about Lovin Dublin is that only 40% of the content lives here on the site (reviews, recipes etc) but a massive 60% lives and breathes on social media channels like Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Today We […]

10 years ago

Amazing what you can achieve when you have a bit of momentum and this week we have more good news on the site as we introduce some new features, share a small amount of the vision we have going forward and unveil our latest full time staff member. This started out as a small recipe […]

10 years ago

Last week we shared the top 7 places to eat chicken wings in Dublin and after a remarkable 10,000 shares on Facebook for that post alone we decided it was time to take on a much bigger subject…The best burger in Dublin. It is a subject that is close to many of our hearts and […]

10 years ago

We always get things about 2 years after New York and London here in Dublin but when the Mexican Burrito craze hit a couple of years we embraced it in style. You can’t walk around a fucking corner now without being asked what number salsa you want as the humble Mexican treat has become a […]

10 years ago

This blog is known for it’s bad language so when you put me in a restaurant called Bang the amount of titles I could choose was endless. If you’ve not heard of Bang with friends then check it out to find out how the youth of today are using technology instead of more traditional courting […]

10 years ago

I gave out a couple of weeks ago about restaurants not using Instagram effectively or at all in most cases. Well I was sitting at the lights in my car today flicking through my phone (don’t fucking judge me because I see all of you looking down in your cars throwing the odd nervous glance […]

10 years ago

When I threw the competition together earlier in the week I couldn’t really have guessed what sort of brilliant stories I’d be getting back or just how emotional I’d feel reading some of them. I was expecting a few people saying that their boss was a douchebag or that they’d pranged their car but people […]

10 years ago