Welcome to the Lovin Round Up, our weekly glance at the main hospitality headlines in Dublin. This week the openers have been coming in hard and fast, and we’ve sadly said goodbye to two Dublin spots (one is just a “see ya later” though – we’ll explain below). Let’s dive in. Vice, a pizza and […]

3 years ago

Welcome to the L List, our weekly round up of things we’re Lovin in Dublin across food, culture and craic. With our lovely Fiona off on some well deserved AL, it’s little ol’ me who’s taking over The L List this week. Thankfully, I had a lot to be lovin. It’s officially Back-to-School season and […]

3 years ago

Welcome to the L List, our weekly round up of things we’re Lovin in Dublin across food, culture and craic. This week, we tuned in in our thousands to watch the Rose of Tralee “for the craic” and collectively ended up in floods of tears as Westmeath Rose Rachel Duffy took the crown in a […]

3 years ago

Free oat flatties and Danica’s twerking skills. Welcome to The L List, our weekly round up of things we’re lovin in Dublin across food, culture and craic. The skies are slightly muggier this week and the heatwave we loved to hate seems to have taken its leave, but fear not. We’ve still rounded up a […]

3 years ago

Translations by Brian Friel, one of Ireland’s most famous playwrights, is currently playing at our National Theatre for the summer. I was lucky enough to be invited to a showing of the Abbey Theatre’s newest play, Translations by Brian Friel. As someone who has previously studied Brian Friel’s work, namely Dancing with Lughnasa and […]

4 years ago

It was a good month for food especially. Life feels firmly back like the old normal, which means weekends and even weekday evenings have been filling up with plans, most of which include food. I had a very good month of eating, as well as a couple of trips to the Bord Gáis, and […]

4 years ago

As our aul pal Ed would say, Lovin can hurt sometimes. In a week that’s shown us that Dublin rents are up 100% since 2011 (which I’m sure came as a surprise to no one, but it’s still depressing to see it written there in black and white), it can be difficult to find things […]

4 years ago

From census tweets to Easter treats. Welcome to this windswept edition of the L List, which I write as an unseasonable breeze batters the gaff from all directions, rattling the windows and making me feel like I’m in A Christmas Carol – Muppets version, obviously. It’s windy, basically, and has been all week. But when […]

4 years ago

From trying some of Dublin’s best pastries (from someone who ought to know), to enjoying a classic sambo from my local café, there was a lot to be lovin this week. Welcome to The L List, our weekly round up of things we’re Lovin in Dublin. And what a week it’s been. Although we’ve said […]

4 years ago

What I’ve come to discover about myself is that I’m a big fan of a toastie sambo now. Another month in Dublin has passed, and while I made to trips away, one to sunny Belfast, and one to Amsterdam, I still made time to visit a few spots right here. From a fancy tasting menu […]

4 years ago

With zero compromise on taste, tg. Not to state the glaringly obvious or anything, but Dublin is an expensive aul city to be in these days. It feels like merely stepping outside your front door costs roughly €23, and that’s before topping up your leapcard or buying your silly little €4.50 coffee or anything. Luckily, […]

4 years ago

The cafe in Dublin’s French Language Centre has been largely closed since March 2020 due to… well, you know. Yesterday on Instagram, Alliance Française Dublin confirmed Chez Max, the cafe and restaurant in their Kildare Street HQ will reopen on March 1st. The traditional cafe which serves homemade French dishes with Parisian flair is a […]

4 years ago