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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]