I was out for dinner with loads of colleagues last night, to wave off my lovely friend Elisa who is going to Ethiopia.  Fifteen of us went to the Hop House on Parnell St for Korean food and beer.  We’ve reviewed the Hop House a number of times here, so I’m not going to go [...]

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 [...]

The Bonga Korean restaurant at the back of the Han Yang Asian supermarket in central Dublin is the epitome of a cheap eat. For just over €5, man or woman can fill their belly with a good plate of Korean food. It’s certainly not easy to find. The Han Yang supermarket is on Great Strand [...]

I think I’ve found the best cheap eat in Dublin. It’s Hilan Chinese and Korean restaurant on Capel Street, and it’s the only restaurant I’ve ever visited five times. Looking at the prices on the menu, you’d expect cheap tasting food. Far from it: the meat, chicken and fish are all high-grade and full of [...]

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 [...]