Ingredients Chicken Breasts Basil Tin Of Tomatoes Garlic Parma Ham Goat’s Cheese 1 Onion Potatoes Are you after the ride this valentines day? Have the perfect date lined up but not 100% sure you have the looks, sense of humor or style to pull it off? Well there is one sure fire way to impress […]

10 years ago

Ingredients Sausages Bacon Flour Wraps Cheddar Cheese Eggs Jalapeno Peppers Large Potato The Irish breakfast has looked the same for decades. Bar a couple of quirks, it’s nearly the exact same as an English, Scottish or Ulster fry. We all like one now and again, but fuck me, does it get boring looking at the […]

10 years ago

We all love a good cocktail and unlike a few years ago where the choice was limited to shitty champagne Mojitos and crappy Sex on the Beach, the cocktail scene in the city is now exploding. Just like good coffee, quality sambos and food in general we are starting to be spoilt for choice. We […]

10 years ago

It is Friday again and not just any end of the week either because we have the joy / dread of it being Valentines day. The day where we celebrate our loved ones or just wallow in the sorrow of being alone and miserable and having an empty mailbox. Well whatever you are feeling today […]

10 years ago

It was only a matter of time really. First we traded in our one-on-ones with the butchers, bakers and candlestick makers for the larger supermarket chains that catered to our every need under one roof. Not the most romantic of notions but inevitable, given that smack bang in the middle of the recession, very few […]

10 years ago

We tend to pigeonhole Italian food into a couple of handy stereotypes. Pizza and Pasta. The reality of doing that is that it is like saying that everybody drinks Guinness in Ireland served with brown bread and cabbage. I’ve been hearing super things about Etto from people around town but wanted to give it a […]

10 years ago

Ingredients Basil Chicken breasts Parmesan cheese Penne pasta Brazil nuts Fresh kale Olive oil Isn’t making a tasty lunch just the biggest pain in the hole? Do you walk out of the office every single day and think “I’m sick of eating these rotten sambos every single day”? Well, there’s an alternative. Lash this recipe […]

10 years ago

Ingredients Scallops Black Pudding Green Salad (Fancy Stuff) 2 Apples Really Good Balsamic Sugar We go to restaurants because they can cook fancy ass shit that none of us can make at home. I’ve seen this starter on menus hundreds of times with slightly different tweaks and it usually costs about 15 Euros to eat. […]

10 years ago

We have an incredible prize to give away this week and because it involves one of Dublin’s best hotels we want you to show us through photos why you really love our capital city. It could be food, a sunrise or a secret corner of Dublin where you caught an amazing snap. The competition is […]

10 years ago

It is that time of the week again where the fecking clock seems to be ticking especially slowly as the weekend inches even closer and the fun looms on the horizon. As always we like to get the weekend started on a Friday morning with a foodie competition and some serious LOLs. Boy have we […]

10 years ago

We all need cheering up in January as we face into a tough, cold month where we are all bloated from eating too much during the festive season and broke from spending all our money on parties, presents and booze. A huge trend of late has been people going on detoxes with many trying juice […]

10 years ago

With Christmas well and truly over and the January fitness and health buzzes starting to rub off it is time to start thinking about the next big event of the year…Valentines. We love to cheer people up on Fridays and we have an awesome competition and a great prize to put a smile on all […]

10 years ago

Ricky Gervais is going to have trouble sleeping tonight because his iconic character David Brent of the Office UK fame has a new real world competitor. David Lawlor is the manager in the Czech Inn in Temple bar and in a bid to show off their wonderful venue they’ve shared this video which literally had […]

10 years ago

Isn’t it amazing how quickly trends form in our little city? Burrito bars popped up all over the place. Then BBQ joints. Restaurants with a focus on cocktails. You go from never knowing what a macaroon was to standing in a long queue behind some dirty hipsters stroking their beards outside the latest pop up […]

10 years ago

Is there anything better than a big fucking fat juicy steak with chips and a bit of garlic butter or a lashing of Bernaise sauce? Not if you ask me anyway and I had the pleasure over the last 3 months of eating my way around some of the best places in Dublin to write […]

10 years ago

Through my early years as a chef in college, high end restaurants and in books I was always taught that people eat with their eyes. You can make food tasty as you want but it has to look amazing to get people really wetting their pants with excitement. When I first started this site I […]

10 years ago

So every Friday we are now running a kick ass competition to help put a massive smile on your face. Not only will we have a shit hot amazing prize every week but we are trying to make the way people enter fun and give everybody a serious lol to get them through those last […]

10 years ago

The pubs in this country are mostly fucked at the moment in terms of attracting customers. People say its the smoking or driving bans that started it but I think it has a lot more to do with economics and the fact that supermarkets like Tesco pile the booze high and sell it cheap to […]

10 years ago

I started this site because I love Dublin. Hence the name. I think something remarkable is bubbling up here after the recession and tech and food are at the heart of the recovery. The city has a new life and a new identity that is starting to catch up with Berlin, SF and NY. I […]

10 years ago

We are always trying to find new ways to deliver content here on the site. The way I think about Lovin Dublin is that only 40% of the content lives here on the site (reviews, recipes etc) but a massive 60% lives and breathes on social media channels like Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Today We […]

10 years ago

There is huge discussion going on about immigration around Europe at the moment with the vast majority of people trotting out the line that we should lock down the borders because “all them bleedin foreigners keep coming in and stealing all our jobs”. I’m involved in the food and tech industries and I for one […]

10 years ago

I think we all agree at this stage that Dublin is starting to become seriously cool again post recession. Everywhere we go hip new eateries, cafes and bars are popping up as the city re-invents itself before our very eyes. When the guys in Huskies and Visit Dublin approached me about creating an illustrated map […]

10 years ago

Amazing what you can achieve when you have a bit of momentum and this week we have more good news on the site as we introduce some new features, share a small amount of the vision we have going forward and unveil our latest full time staff member. This started out as a small recipe […]

10 years ago

A couple of weeks ago we introduced our community #Lovindublin reviews on Instagram. It is a tool that allows all Dubliners review restaurants, take amazing food pics and share them with us all to drool over. All you have to do is take a picture and tag it with #Lovindublin where it will then be […]

10 years ago

I had the misfortune of having possibly the worst cup of coffee in the world in Insomnia earlier this week. I mean it was so bad I nearly wanted to spit it out on the floor but If I did it would probably have exposed the floorboards and stripped away the cement, it was that […]

10 years ago

Last week we shared the top 7 places to eat chicken wings in Dublin and after a remarkable 10,000 shares on Facebook for that post alone we decided it was time to take on a much bigger subject…The best burger in Dublin. It is a subject that is close to many of our hearts and […]

10 years ago

Ingredients 1 packet of fresh pasta 1 packet of dried mushrooms 1 packet of button mushrooms 1 bunch of spring onions Parmesan cheese 1 small tub of cream 1 chicken stock cude (Veggie if you want to go that route) 2 cloves garlic 1 onion Pasta is the go-to dish for many of us during […]

10 years ago

What is that stupid gesture that we all make when we are looking for the bill in a restaurant? You know it…the one where you wave your hand in the air pretending to write on it and winking at the waiter like somebody who has just been let out of Dundrum central mental hospital. Where […]

10 years ago

You’ll be surprised to read this but I have a huge amount of time for restaurant chains. I love the odd Mcdonalds. Wagamama is a favourite spot for a juice and chilli chicken ramen. You’ll do a lot worse than a Milano’s Pizza in Dublin and fat boy Jamie Oliver does very decent Italian in […]

10 years ago

Ingredients 1 Raspberries 1 Banana 1 Small tub plain yoghurt Few mint leaves Couple of limes 1 Mango Some orange juice Most of us rely on coffee to get us started in the mornings but there is a more natural way that gives you twice the energy and leaves you having had nearly all your […]

10 years ago

The way people find restaurants has changed forever and social media is playing and increasingly large part in decision making. We trust our friends and we follow their judgement. Although nearly every single restaurant in the capital has a Twitter and a Facebook profile at this stage (most are still using them badly in fairness) […]

10 years ago

We always get things about 2 years after New York and London here in Dublin but when the Mexican Burrito craze hit a couple of years we embraced it in style. You can’t walk around a fucking corner now without being asked what number salsa you want as the humble Mexican treat has become a […]

10 years ago

Ingredients 3 Red Peppers 4 Cloves Garlic 1 Packet of pasta 2 Chicken breasts White Cheddar Parmesan Chicken Stock Cream Who doesn’t love a really good pasta bake? All those lovely little chewy bits on top mixed with all the nice cheese. Absolutely fucking gorgeous if you ask me. It was tricky to come up […]

10 years ago

Ingredients 3 Red Peppers 3 Potatoes 3 Cloves Garlic 1 Bag of spinach Goats cheese 1 Bread roll 1 Cube of chicken stock Having a big, heavy dinner every night with meat and veg can be a bit much so I wanted to create something that was light and quick to cook and didn’t feature […]

10 years ago

This blog is known for it’s bad language so when you put me in a restaurant called Bang the amount of titles I could choose was endless. If you’ve not heard of Bang with friends then check it out to find out how the youth of today are using technology instead of more traditional courting […]

10 years ago

Sometimes the restaurant scene in Dublin really fucking bores me. I mean we’ve made great strides since the celtic tiger with the recession bringing out the creative side in many and a return to good food, better ambience and more value for consumers. Although we have loads of new trendy spots I’ve not been seen […]

10 years ago

Ingredients 1 Punnit of raspberries Some fresh watermelon 1 Pomegranate This is an unusual juice that brings together some super simple ingredients to create a fresh and healthy afternoon drink that tastes so good it should never be good for you. The real bonus us that with the little pomegranate seeds on top at the […]

10 years ago

Many of us choose to work remotely these days, with ties to the physical office not as important as they once were. You might need to check your emails between meetings, tie up a few loose ends online at the end of a day or simply want a change of scenery, but finding the perfect […]

10 years ago

Ingredients 1 Packet of mackerel 2 Eggs 1 Avocado 1 Packet of green beans 1 Lemon Dijon mustard Rocket I love eating healthy but one thing that I hear people say all the time is that it is impossible to find time to cook food that is good for you. To show that is complete […]

10 years ago

The city has been through a pretty miserable 5 years since the dickhead bankers and our gutless politicians sold us out to the Germans and that has affacted every single part of our lives. We’ve started to see a definite turn in sentiment though in the last 3 months and if there is one sector […]

10 years ago

I gave out a couple of weeks ago about restaurants not using Instagram effectively or at all in most cases. Well I was sitting at the lights in my car today flicking through my phone (don’t fucking judge me because I see all of you looking down in your cars throwing the odd nervous glance […]

10 years ago

Ingredients 1 Packet of streaky bacon Self Raising Flour 1 Spoon of baking powder 3 Eggs Fresh Berries (whatever you like but I think blueberry and strawberry work best) Castor Sugar Milk I always sound sexist when I do recipes that are aimed for either men or women but this is hands down the perfect […]

10 years ago

Ingredients 1 Packet of baby carrots 1 Bunch of thyme Parmesan cheese 1 Lemon 1 Packet of long stem broccoli Some thyme leaves You are probably like me in that you know you have to eat vegetables but it can be a massive pain in the ass to get your five a day into you. […]

10 years ago

Very little good stuff originates in the North Side of Dublin and is then imported to the South side. At best you could argue that the airport is a useful addition to the city although even taking the M50 means peering into the squalor that is Ballymun. The Eircoach is another example and I always […]

10 years ago

Is there anything better in the entire world than a big dirty slice of cake and a lovely hot cup of tea on your days off? I don’t even fucking drink tea, but stick a slice of something sweet in front of me after a long hard week, and you’ve a match made in heaven. […]

10 years ago

Ingredients 1 Bag Of Fresh Kale Couple Of Green Apples Half A Cucumber 1 Mango You know the drill… It’s the end of the weekend and you have drunk yourself stupid and spent the last few days partying it up! You have the fear and you can’t work out if you are coming down with […]

10 years ago

I started this blog to force myself to go and eat out more. I’ve achieved that in spades and the fucking thing has grown to such a stage that I can no longer manage it myself. I do have a day job afterall. I’ve been toying with a couple of ideas on how to expand […]

10 years ago

Ingredients Really Good Bacon Eggs Grain Bread Or At Lest Brown Bread Ballymaloe Relish This blog is all about shattering the normal food perceptions as well as coming up with dishes that you can lash together to suit your daily life. A fry up is something that we have at the weekends and that is […]

10 years ago

It has always amazed me just how much we get ripped off on our little island. We pay more for food, property, food, drinks, clothes and just about everything else than our European brethren. A good friend once told me that the big Telcos call our country “Treasure Island” because of the amount they can […]

10 years ago

I get stuff sent in to me here on a regular basis and rather than keep it all for my future assistant I thought I’d come up with a killer little competition to put a huge smile on a couple of faces. To be brutally honest I’m pretty fucking pissed off that I have to […]

10 years ago