Cafe Mao started its life in Chatham Street where it carved out a niche serving really good reasonably priced Asian fusion food. Then it closed for unfortunate reasons and when it re-opened, it had thankfully lost none of it’s oomph. There is now a Mao in the Dundrum Shopping Centre just beside the water feature, [...]
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Kenny’s pub in Lucan is one of the friendliest bars we have visited. The interior is modern with lots of wood, the staff are genuinely among the most helpful we have encountered in the city. They offer a home-cooked carvery at lunchtime, and when we visited with an older lady, the woman serving immediately came [...]
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thedublingobbler appears to be one of the few fans of the Saddle Room, the landmark restaurant at the Shelbourne Hotel, certainly among the food writing fraternity or if anecdotal comments are anything to go by. However, given that we are food critics, it is with great sadness and regret that we say it is not [...]
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The daddy of artisan bakeries, the Bretzel Bakery in Portobello, Dublin has lost a little of its charm and variety over the years but it’s still a great bakery. They do the usual line-up of breads and cakes (though some of the classics like curd cheesecake seem to have disappeared) but the bread is good [...]
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Breakfast on Saturday morning hasn’t been the same since the Corner Bakery opened on the Terenure Road, or if you are coming from town, up the Harold’s Cross Road in Dublin 6. We can almost smell the fresh baguettes from the bed, their scones made with cream are to die for and we think their [...]
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Furama in Dublin 4 is one of the finest Chinese restaurants in Dublin and to prove it, it was awarded Ethnic Restaurant of the Year 2008. It has been around a long time, partly because it does not try to be fashionable. It also helps that it is situated in the Dublin 4 affluent belt [...]
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Fafies Creperie is a real find. Tucked away in a Dublin side street (at 2 Lower Kevin Street, Dublin 8 it offers keenly-priced sustenance and authenticity in a city that is increasingly prone to banal, conveyor-belt coffee shops.
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Fallon and Byrne, the gourmet food emporium that lives in a magnificent building on Exchequer Street off Grafton Street, is a fine example of what you can do when you take a risk. The owners have put their money where their mouth is and for that reason, we too have supported this new venture with [...]
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We’ve been frequenting Chez Max, this petite french bistro off Dame Street, for quite some time now. Years in fact, possibly almost as long as it has been open. We like it for a few reasons. It is authentic in all the ways that matter. The food is french, the owner is french, the atmosphere [...]
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Everyone loves Brownes, it lives in the annals of South Dublin folklore. This little delicatessen and cafe squeezes in about 40 people on weekends for coffee and breakfast after a long brisk walk on Sandymount Strand.
The ozone in the air must really work up an appetite because the food here is one of the [...]
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Antonio Carluccio is an avuncular jolly bear of a man, epitomising everything that is good and joyful about Italian food and cooking. His book Complete Italian Food is so good that thedublingobbler has two of them. They seem to be that kind of book that you buy for yourself and that a friend also gives [...]
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Lock’s restaurant, once an old Dublin haunt for well-heeled corporate diners has changed hands and is now beloved of people who crave that indefinable thing called
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