Way back when people were sneezing cash and feeding it to their cats and gerbils, Bistro Spice was well ahead of the curve. While the rest of us were bathing in fillet mignon and sleeping with tins of foie gras – you mean you weren’t? – this unassuming little Indian restaurant in the reasonably well-to-do [...]

I’m not a big fan of the old sangwich: one too many lunches where the cardboard packaging and the contents became indistinguishable. O’Brien’s slop has also turned me off the very notion of a filling in bread, although I’ve yet to try Rachel Allen’s signature creations. Last week, I was wandering around the Stephen’s Green [...]

I’d heard great things about Bistro Bianconi, but always put off ordering. Hmmm, it does look and sound lovely, but I’m always loath to pay for takeaway pizza. Dominos, with their horrible stodgy dough and sinister, shiny toppings, charges around 16 for a 12 inch pizza. Four Star, which jostles with Domino’s for the title [...]

I got a pasting last year for slagging off Ray’s pizza, but I was kind of asking for it. My gripe was that the pizza, although delicious, was overpriced. Our reader Nanazolie agreed: A pizza is cheap to produce. I make some at home for less than 3 euros. The dough is essentially flour, water, [...]

I love Chinese Food. I love it so much I’m giving Food a capital ‘F’. I’m prepared to try anything and have been insulted a few times on Parnell St when waiters in authentic neezers have told me not to order certain dishes because ‘they’re not suitable for Irish people’. Call me weird but I [...]

This might be the best takeaway deal around. Marsella’s, a chipper in Churchtown, Dublin 14, is offering chips, a burger and a can of Coke for €3. The offer is valid all day. Marsella’s will also be giving away 1,000 free bags of chips once they reach 1,000 followers on Twitter. Burdock’s excepted, I’m not [...]

Just-Eat.ie, Ireland’s largest online food ordering website, kindly provided us with a great prize to give away. The following two CheapEats readers have each won a takeaway, to feed two people, from their choice of over 500 takeaways nationwide: Random Integer Generator Here are your random numbers: 115, 281 Timestamp: 2010-03-10 21:16:55 UTC So big [...]

Peter has pronounced Burdock’s to be the best chipper in Ireland a number of times here, which means that it has now passed into empirical fact.  Burdock’s is the best chipper in Ireland, and dissent will not be tolerated. The Burdock’s outlet in the Epicurean Food Hall on Abbey Street is currently running a pretty [...]

For ages now, people have been telling me to try out The Bombay Pantry, an Indian takeaway with seven branches around Dublin. So finally! I picked up a takeaway for four. Against our better judgment, we got some rather misguided Spicy fish cakes (€4.95) to start. After one bite each we threw them to the [...]

The competition is now closed. Check back later to see if you have won. Just-Eat.ie, Ireland’s largest online food ordering website, has a great prize to give away. Two CheapEats readers will each win a takeaway, to feed two people, from their choice of over 500 takeaways nationwide. Whether you’re looking for Chinese, chippers, Indian, [...]