Guzzle Puzzle is for kids, right? So when, oddly, a few packets of The Natural Confectionary Company’s new product arrived in my letterbox from a PR company, I figured I’d ask my nephew for his opinion. Here’s his view: Guzzle Puzzle Review By Jacob Haskins, aged 9 Guzzle Puzzle tastes exactly like Jelly Worms, made [...]

Update, October 17, 2012: The price of this meal has now risen to €49.95 between four people. We ate there recently, and while it’s still great  value, it’s no longer a dinner under €10. I’m always bleating on about how the M&S Dine In for Two for €12.50 offer is the best food deal in [...]

Hey folks, I’m putting together an article on Dublin’s best value meals for a different publication. Some of the places I plan to name include The Exchequer, Hilan, Fallon and Byrne, Le Bon Crubeen, Early birds in Shanahan’s and Chapter One, lunch in One Pico, The Hop House, Green 19, Cafe Bliss, The Larder, burritos in Pablo Picante’s, Burritos and Blues, and Boojum. [...]

This is spooky. A journalist from The Guardian newspaper reports that he was accosted by Tesco staff last week for the “crime” of writing down prices on a notepad. The manager told him that Tesco policy forbids people writing down prices. Presumably, they’re afraid that people will discover they’re not such good value after all. [...]

Pity the miserable denizens of that bleak stretch of Dublin I call Middle Baggot Street, a place dominated by the hulking Bank of Ireland headquarters and a series of grey office buildings. Other Baggoty workers looking for lunch or coffee, either on the upper (before the canal) and lower (after Pembroke Street) sides, can head to [...]