Until recently the only Japanese food I tried was sushi and it turned me off the cuisine completely. My friend, who can’t and won’t cook, asked me around for dinner and produced a range of off the shelf sushi. It was a harrowing experience; I felt like one those z list ‘celebrities’ in the jungle [...]

Even though I work right in the middle of Dublin’s city centre, and have the choice of a huge range of places to eat, I still find feeding myself at lunchtime to be a hassle.  I’m usually looking for a lunch that balances convenience, value and nutrition; and unfortunately most cafe lunch offerings fall down [...]

We’ve mentioned the €9.99 salad lunch deal in Yamamori on the Quays in Dublin before, as I’ve thought for quite a while that it’s one of the best lunch deals around.  For your €9.99, you get a seasonal salad, a side dish (something like sushi or dumplings), a freshly squeezed juice and rice or miso [...]

I’ve recently had two very satisfying, tasty and cheap Japanese lunches in Dublin for only €10 apiece.  Anyone who’s a fan of Japanese food will be familiar with bento boxes: compartmentalised lunch boxes containing a variety of snacks, arranged in the aesthetically appealing way we expect from Japanese cuisine. A couple of weeks ago, I [...]

I had sushi for lunch recently in the Epicurean Food Hall on Dublin’s Abbey St, from a stand called the Brother Buffet.  The price was what caught my eye – any eight pieces for €6.65.  This has to be the cheapest deal on sushi I’ve seen anywhere in Dublin. The Brother Buffet mainly serves all-you-can-eat [...]

After I went to Kokoro on Liffey St a couple of weeks ago, and wrote that I was underwhelmed by their hot food but perfectly whelmed by their sushi, a few of our readers suggested that we try out Sushi King on Dawson St, Dublin 2.   They have a wide selection of sushi to take [...]

My good friend David and I had a big slap-up feed in the Hop House last week: we felt we richly deserved to pig out after going for a very strenuous 30-second swim in the Forty Foot.  By the time we got back into town we were starving and invigorated from the swim, which is [...]

The holy grail: affordable Japanese food in Dublin!  This new takeaway is on Liffey Street, near the Ha’penny Bridge, and sells hot food and sushi.  I went down there yesterday at lunchtime to check it out.  There’s a very wide and affordable choice – loads of sushi for around €1 a piece, and a selection [...]

I split my (beautiful! sunny!) long weekend between Galway and Limerick, with the express intention of eating out in both places. It didn’t quite work out – I was only in Galway for one night and food took a backseat to booze, I’m ashamed to say.  And in Limerick, the restaurants that I wanted to [...]

Thanks to our reader Anne-Marie who let us know about this offer: Pigsback.com members can get a two for one voucher for Wagamama. I think Wagamama’s standard menu is a little overpriced, but in fairness to them, they do have lots of good and frequent offers. I don’t use Pigsback.com myself for a number of [...]