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 [...]

My friend Clare Q and I recently tried out a new(ish?) restaurant on Dublin’s Aungier Street: The Whitefriar Grill. It’s in the spot that was until recently occupied by Conrad Gallagher’s Salon des Saveurs, which in the grand tradition of Conrad Gallagher resturants, closed down. It’s a slightly quiet and dead stretch of street, considering [...]

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 [...]

Dublin is poorly served by Greek restaurants. Besides Keshk in Donnybrook, which is a bit of a trek outside the city, there’s a Greek buffet called Ramos in the Epicurean food hall and then… well, precisely nothing. In the summer of 2005, I fell in love with Greek food in, of all places, Vancouver. A [...]

Burritos are the perfect midway point between fast food and a reasonably decent meal. Filling and comforting, quick and tasty, and unlike McDonald’s or the worst offender KFC, they don’t leave you squirming in shame when the instant pleasure has been devoured. Burritos and Blues, located on the corner of Camden’s Street, has been around [...]

I’m always bleating on about how the M&S Dine In for Two for €12.50 offer is the best food deal in Ireland. I’d never found a restaurant that could match it. Until now – and from a rather unexpected quarter. Cheapeats was recently invited to try out The Exchequer’s Sunday roast for four people deal. [...]