Rebecca Flynn, a friend and food lover, is the author of today’s guest post review, about a new cafe on Dublin’s Stephen Street. Myself and my cousins had our inaugural cousins’ Christmas get-together this year. We wanted to make it special and had heard good things about Eastwood & Mays, a new cafe and deli [...]

I was torn about whether to write about and recommend Arthur’s on Thomas St.  It’s a thoroughly lovely pub and you all deserve to know about it. But there is a part of me that selfishly wants to keep it a secret, so that it’s always peaceful and I can always get the seat by [...]

Taking the afternoon off work and whiling away a few hours in a top restaurant surely ranks amongst life’s greatest pleasures. For a start, lunch is much, much cheaper, making a trip to an expensive restaurant reasonably affordable. But a long, booze-soaked, lazy afternoon over fine food, followed by a relaxing evening at home or [...]

I’ll keep this one brief. If you’re shopping in Dublin and need a good value lunch or dinner pitstop, check out Fallon and Byrne‘s food options. The pre-theatre deal is off until January, to be replaced by a much more expensive “Christmas menu”- it’s €38 instead of €28.81, plus a €5 supplement for the steak. [...]

Best Thai restaurant in Dublin? Arguably a toss-up between Saba and Koh. Saba is consistently delicious, with fresh flavours and imagination always to the forefront. A few weeks back, Jean and I attended the launch of their new cookbook, Saba: The Cookbook. It’s not unusual, of course, for a restaurant to bring out a cookbook. [...]

Looking for some ideas from you, our lovely readers.  My work department had booked our Christmas dinner in a tapas restaurant next Thursday (15th Dec). Unfortunately the restaurant just cancelled as they had double-booked us.  Now we need to find another restaurant in Dublin city centre that is affordable, nice and will seat 19 people.  [...]

I’d heard some pretty awful things about Buenos Aires Grill, the Argentinian restaurant off Aungier Street beside the Radisson Hotel. Multiple bad reports, including from people who’d eat pretty much anything and never complain, put me off ever going. When a friend chose it for his birthday dinner, I figured it couldn’t be as bad [...]

I took my tiny sidekick to the Sunday Brunch Club in the Odeon on Harcourt St a few weeks back, when filthy rain put paid to our plans to go to the park.  It turned out to be a really pleasant thing to do with small ones on a Sunday afternoon – a rare peaceful [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]