Like many people, I’ll be looking to buy a few bottles of sweet, sweet booze for Christmas.  I only need to pick up a few for gifts and for the house, and don’t have a large enough order to warrant a trip to the North.  While doing some shopping in Dublin city yesterday I was [...]

The older I get, the more debilitating hangovers get. They can be outrageously painful and quite often I become really stupid; I have been known to walk into walls, even run into them.
What’s worse is during Christmas I usually meet up with people I haven’t seen in ages and instead of being witty and attractive: [...]

Subway are currently doing any coffee – cappuccino, latte, americano etc – for one euro. And it’s not bad quality. I have noticed quite a few cheap coffee deals in the city of late, particularly on Aungier St. However, most of the cheapest options are muck.
I got a latte from Subway and I was [...]

This is a warming little recipe to serve up to your kids and kidults alike on Halloween evening after you’ve been out on a hard night’s trick-or-treating. Although I know all our cheapeats readers are extremely on the ball, I am nevertheless obliged to point out the following: Kid version - less spice, no alcohol. [...]

Jacqueline Strawbridge has just joined the CheapEats.ie team. She is currently deputy editor of Love Food with the Irish Independent, with articles published in the Irish Times and the Evening Herald Wedding Guide. She loves good food, and is probably happiest when she’s cooking – she’ll be sharing some of her culinary secrets [...]

You can follow up the Carbonade of Beef with a Guinness Black and White Chocolate Mousse that looks like your very own mini pint.  Serves six.
Guinness Black and White Chocolate Mousse:
Ingredients:

230g dark chocolate (around 70% cocoa)
170g white chocolate
1/2 cup butter
1/4 cup sugar
3/4 cup Guinness
3 large eggs, separated
2 cups cream

There are all sorts of shenanigans going on to celebrate Arthur’s day with a hefty line-up set to play. Okay, essentially it’s probably the biggest marketing coup ever but it’s still kind of nice to salute the black stuff.
Even if you’re not a Guinness drinker, you can still toast the occasion by cooking up a [...]

The Bald Barista boasts bean brewing that’s better than most other beverage makers in Baile Átha Cliath. Café Darwin’s doesn’t doubt the delectableness of its own draft either. Both are situated within minutes of eachother on Aungier St. Come to think of it, there’s a lot of barber shops on that stretch too. Why so [...]

“Happy hours” were banned long ago. Ireland, apparently, was sinking into a drunken stupor of binge drinking; we needed to be be saved from ourselves.
That’s why drinks industry watchdog Meas shut down Dublin pub The Portobello’s €4 a pint deal. Ok, fair enough, them’s the rules, I’ll just…
But wait! Suddenly the law reveals itself as [...]

An aunt of mine only drinks Coke. One of my 10 billion nephews refuses to drink anything but “juice”, which is actually just a sugary diluted drink like Kia-Ora, Ribena or Robinson’s.
Like all the tastiest stuff, these are little more than sugar-delivery vehicles.  Loaded, overflowing, and fizzing with tooth-melting, waist-expanding, heart-killing sugar. But how many [...]