M&S’s wonderful dine in for two for €12.50 – wine, main, side, and dessert for two – runs until next Tuesday. Full menu on the M&S website.

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On this rainy, rainy day: grab a bottle of wine with dinner, side dish, and dessert for two people. €12.50. Beef goulash with a side of carrot and swede crush, followed by warm apple pie, will do nicely. Eat and be warm. Full menu on the M&S website.

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Another great deal from M&S: a roast dinner for two, with potatoes and two types of vegetables, for just €7. We’ve written about it on the site before, and it’s highly recommended. The deal includes a choice of honey roast ham, smoky BBQ pork, or a turkey breast, and it runs until Wednesday November 9. [...]

Parliament Street is full of great restaurants. There is, of course, Zaytoon, the only place you’d consider eating a kebab while sober. Then there’s Corfu: let’s call this one a work in progress. Cafe Topolis is a lovely Italian restaurant, while Salamanca does a few fairly decent deals including six tapas with bread or salad for [...]

Here comes the Bank Holiday weekend, and here comes the extraordinary M&S Dine in for Two for €12.50 offer: mains, a side dish, dessert and a bottle of wine or two cartons of fruit juice for €12.50. For the weekend that’s in it, there’s Colcannon mash and Apple and blackberry pie on the menu. Besides [...]

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Next week is is Dine In Dublin, where almost 50 restaurants around the city will offer a starter, main and dessert, from a set menu, for either €20, €25, or €30. There’s some fantastic restaurants taking part, including Fallon and Byrne, The Green Hen, Dada, Koh, L’Gueleton, La Cave, and the Hop House, and I’m [...]

At last! Tomorrow, Aldi are opening up in Sandyford, south county Dublin. If, like me, you refused to drive past several branches of Lidl to get to Aldi in Nutgrove, this will be very good news indeed. Aldi don’t stock the very amazing Fruchtsaft or cheap organic potatoes – until they do, I won’t be [...]