The creators of CrackBird and JoBurger are launching yet another new restaurant next week: Skinflint.  It’ll be operating at 19 Crane Lane, the same location as the original CrackBird pop-up.  As with CrackBird, they’re running a clever and generous Twitter giveaway to start the buzz about the restaurant. Simply follow @skinflintDUBLIN and tweet them with [...]

A Flash Feast is taking place on the Milennium Bridge at 1pm today, so if you’re in the vicinity, get yourself down there and you may be one of the lucky 40 passers-by who will get a free lunch.   Hurry up! The event is kicking off the Street Feast festival – find out more on [...]

Ken Hom, one of the world’s leading Chinese chefs, will be in Tesco Merrion next Monday, January 31, from 4pm. He’ll be cooking up some delicious dishes in store for customers to sample. It’s a free event to mark Chinese New Year and well worth attending to get some samples and inspiration from this world-famous [...]

On  your bike! Fitzcycles, a new bike shop beside Fruit World in Stillorgan, south Co. Dublin, opens its doors tomorrow, Saturday November 27. This new venture combines both an online business with a shop presence, so you’ll always have a friendly face to turn to. Run by Paul Fitzsimons, a manically cycling friend of mine, [...]

Earlier this summer, I wrote about freeganism, where people salvage perfectly good food from being sent to landfill. It’s usually a sandwich or a carrot that was on the shelves just moments earlier, but was then deemed unfit for sale. In today’s Irish Times, Conor Pope has an interesting piece on Mark Boyle, a Donegal [...]

Boojum, a Mexican cafe in Dublin’s Italian quarter, are giving out FREE burritos and fajitas between 5-7pm today. Expect long queues and delicious food, Jean wrote about this place last month. Thanks to Saveafewbob.ie  for the heads up.

I have friends who very rarely, if ever, pay for their food. Instead, they go foraging through the skips and bins of Dublin city, picking up the mountains of perfectly good discarded food. It’s easy to sneer – ugh, eating from the bin? – but the food is usually well packaged or wrapped up; they don’t [...]

Cafe Phillippe have just opened on Aungier Street in Dublin city, and to mark the occasion, they’re giving away free hot drinks all day. Thanks to Snackbox for the tip.

Boo for the budget! Ah sure, have a cup of tea. Tomorrow, Barry’s will be giving away brews for the blues at various hubs around the country, including Urban Outfitters in Dundrum and Temple Bar, BT2, and – especially useful for students – at several universities and ITs around the country. Click here for a [...]

We all know that blackberries grow freely throughout Ireland in late summer and early autumn, but some other foods also cost nothing. I got the LUAS to Kilmacud Road last week and walked up towards the Beacon Hotel in Sandyford Industrial Estate. It was impossible not to notice: the side of the public footpath was [...]