Until tomorrow at Tesco, you can pick up any three of 17 meats for €10, as well as six bottles of Bud/ Bud Light/ Heineken/ Bulmers/ Carlsberg for €7. Some other offers, valid until Saturday June 5, include: Keeling’s strawberries – half price – now €2.49 Tesco quality Irish pork chops (875g) – reduced from €9 to [...]

That’s more like it, SuperValu. There’s plenty of enticing offers this week, including: SuperValu thick cut rashers (330g) – half price – now €2.44 Mix and match fruit and veg – galia melon, rhubarb, nectarine punnet, mushrooms, peach punnet, peppers, bananas, and tenderstem broccoli for – any 3 for €4 (€2 each) SuperValu BBQ meat [...]

A flowchart that helps you find somewhere to eat in New Orleans (click for larger version) From Berning Marketing.  Thanks to my friend John H for sending this on.

Milano are running a €15 set menu offer at the moment – your €15 gets you Doughballs or Garlic Bread, a pizza from a decent selection and a glass of wine or a beer.  You just have to fill out a quick form at their website www.milanooffers.ie and you will get a printable voucher. The [...]

I wrote here before about the slightly bewildering salad and service that I received in Fafie’s Creperie on Kevin St back in February.  I did acknowledge in that post that I’d heard great things about Fafie’s crepes, and quite a few of our readers left comments saying that I should try it again.  I recently [...]

There’s some sun forecast for this weekend, and I’m sure many of us will be doing our utmost to soak up some joy from that mysterious yellow disc in the sky.  The supermarkets are full of barbeque food and accoutrements – and I was pleasantly surprised to see that you can now get Fairtrade disposable [...]

M&S Dine in for Two for €12.50 is back on again today, running until Tuesday.  The menu has gone quite summery with selections of meat to grill, and they have some really delicious ice-creams and sorbets available as the dessert options. Get the full menu on the M&S website »

Food offers Current food offers at Lidl include: Corn on the cob (2 pack) – reduced from €1.79 to 99c Smoked/ unsmoked rindless back bacon (2 x 200g) – reduced from €2.99 to €1.99 Tayto cheese and onion crisps (8 pack) – reduced from €.45 to €1.99 Click here for more details, and remember, there’s [...]

Special buys this Thursday at Aldi include: 18″ kettle barbecue – €24.99 3 pack citronella candles – €1.99 10 litre watering can – €4.99 Click here for details. Also at Aldi, the current Super6 offer includes asparagus, melon, leeks, granny smith apples, vine tomatoes, and pineapples for just 79c. Click here for details.

Thanks to our lovely readers for your great London tips. I followed some of your recommendations and also scoured out some of my own. I started off in Camden. Wonderful, wonderful Camden, where people have more piercings than skin, where punk never died, and where all sorts of flower-power people mingle freely with almost every [...]