Tesco made the news this week, and for all the wrong reasons. For those of you who missed it, CheapEats reader Audrey sent us her astonishing correspondence with a Tesco Customer Service manager. It revealed that: The cessation of Tesco’s “Change for Good” campaign was the reason why “you will now be noticing increases in [...]

More changes this week at CheapEats. Top chef Garth McColgan started a new monthly column on feeding the family on a budget, while the absolutely adorable Jacqueline Strawbridge joined the CheapEats team. A big welcome to them both, and to Rercy, who’ll be a much more regular voice on the site. We’ll be hitting our [...]

Rercy’s short series on Lebanese food has inspired me to cook up more of this cheap, accessible, and easy food – more to come. Also this week, we reviewed Saba To Go‘s new midweek special, had brunch in Taste on South William Street and lunch in Goosers in Killaloe, said goodbye to Keith Floyd with [...]

Happy Friday everyone. This week on CheapEats Maria Crispy loved the Heir Island Cottage in Cork, and Snack Box wondered if the Bald Barista is really all that.  We questioned whether Tesco has suddenly stopped robbing us, and considered the point of convenience shops. This weekend, I’m off to the Electric Picnic (hurray!) and will [...]

That’s all folks. Yet again we threw boxes of pigeons among you cats and legged it away: this week we debated good and bad sandwich making, whether chopsticks have a place at the dinner table, the price of sugary drinks, and the officious, self-serving stupidity of professional finger-waggers Meas, an issue I’ve had to restrain [...]

And we’re done! This week, I discovered abundant rosemary in public parts of Dublin, and gently nudged some of our readers to start planting herbs, trees, and vegetables all along the paths and roads of Ireland. Meanwhile, CheapEats writers ate in Gruel, Juice, Chick King, and the Beijing Chinese Takeaway. Some things never change. It turns [...]

Yay, it’s the weekend! Time to eat out in Dublin, again. This city life is a lot more expensive than my days in Wicklow, but I’m enjoying really hunting for cheap eats. This week, I started my dine-out odyssey with a so-so trip to Yami Thai and Sushi takeaway and reminisced about San Sebastian. Indeed, [...]

Fight, fight, fight! Regular readers will know that we love a good old fashioned scrap here on CheapEats, and this week delivered two: one on table manners and one on self-serving Tesco’s “Screw the Children’s Charity” campaign.  I discovered that deli rolls can be very satisfying, and wrote about Amicus in Co. Cork, while our competition [...]

This week, I returned from my holidays in Spain. Despite the rain, I’m actually quite glad to be back. Much as I love Spanish food, I missed having the amount of choice we get here. If I want Moroccan, Chinese, Indian, Thai, Turkish, or whatever, it’s reasonably easy to find a restaurant, or to get [...]

This week we argued about the cost of sushi and admired Irish made Killowen yogurts. Peter ate in Campo de Fiore in Bray and our friend and commenter Junior Box pondered the issue of reusable water bottles. In exciting news for fans of eating posh for cheap, the Irish Times €20 lunch offer is back [...]