Despite the general perception of takeaways as a cheap night in, you can often end up paying way over the odds for the food.  If curries start at over €10, as they do in many Thai and Indian takeways, the cost even for one side and delivery adds up to quite a lot.  Of course [...]

Sometimes, you just need to eat. In such circumstances, you might find yourself getting a deli roll in a convenience store; this is the taste of disappointment. I got a Spar roll for a hike on Sunday. It was multi-grain and everything, so I managed to delude myself that it would be tasty and healthy [...]

In Dublin, it’s easy to find cheap Chinese, Korean, Indian, Vietnamese, and even Japanese eats. Thai food remains, by and large, relatively expensive. This shows no sign of changing. Sadly, one of the nicest Thai restaurants around, Camile in Rathmines, have put up their prices and taken away their free ice cream machine. The €5 kids [...]

Burritos: it’s probably as exciting as sun-dried tomatoes hit the shores in the mid-1990s, or when pizza arrived in Ireland, which must have been sometime in the 1970s. Now cheap burritos are everywhere: Burritos and Blues on South Anne Street and Wexford Street, Pablo Picante’s on Baggot Street and Clarendon Market, Boojum on the Millenium Walkway. [...]

Some really interesting new restaurants have sprung up around Dublin in the last year or so, and I was really pleased to hear about one in particular that’s doing ‘Asian street food’ – Neon on Camden St. I’ve often bemoaned the lack of affordable Thai, Japanese and Vietnamese food in Ireland. It’s starting to catch [...]