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 [...]

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 [...]

Just a quick note to say that, following a spectacularly poor performance from Diep’s Blackrock branch, they have redeemed themselves. Last week, Jean and I had a very enjoyable meal from the Ranelagh branch. The manager was genuinely apologetic about the poor customer service I’d previously received, and generously provided two mains and two starters. [...]

Plenty to celebrate at Saba over the next two months. To mark Thailand’s Mothers Day on August 12, the Thai restaurant is running a notable promotion: purchase two meals from the three-course fixed price lunch menu for €19.15 and a third person dines for free. That works out at just over €13 for a three-course [...]

There’s a street in Dublin 8 that runs from South Circular Road at Dolphin’s Barn down to the canal, that has to be one of the most desolate stretches of retail I’ve ever seen anywhere. This street has a closed-down hair salon, a closed-down cobblers, a closed-down butchers, a closed-down shop that looks like it [...]