It’s June. The ice-cream fridges are full. Boots has moved its sunscreen up beside the tills, kids are leaping into the Liffey and there isn’t a patch of grass to be had during lunchtime in Stephen’s Green. It’s starting to look a lot like summer, in other words, so we’ve run the rule over the […]

10 years ago

Oxmantown is a tiny district in Dublin that most people have never heard of. It also happens to be the name of a hip deli on a corner between Smithfield and Capel street. It is an area of the city that I am continually being drawn to these days because of the incredible food and […]

10 years ago

When I started this blog I did so to find truly remarkable food in Dublin. Today I found something that blew my mind and which and experience I’ve been crying out for over the last couple of years…Really good fish. Although there are loads of brilliant places to eat and drink in Dublin there are […]

10 years ago

For the last couple of decades bread in Ireland has been pretty shit. Sure you could argue we had brilliant wheaten bread, Blaas from Waterford, soda farls and some half decent scones but generally speaking we are not a country that excels when it comes to baking. You only have to walk down a supermarket […]

10 years ago

Ingredients Chicken Breasts 3 Lemons Fresh Parsley Feta Cheese Shallots White Wine New Potatoes Sugar Snap Peas I love how when the weather gets warmer we all start cooking a little differently. We want lighter flavours and the health buzz is in full fucking steam. I wanted to create something that was zingy, packed a […]

10 years ago

Ingredients Fresh Crab Meat Avocado Sourdough Bread Eggs Chili Coriander Creme Fraiche The way we eat in summer always changes. I don’t know about you but I’m always over the heavy shit that we pile into our bodies in winter and light to change up my diet. I can’t say there is any big scientific […]

10 years ago

Ingredients Spaghetti Tomatoes Basil Garlic Parmesan Cheese Sugar Cooking should never be complicated and if you use the right high quality ingredients and follow some simple steps you can end up with an absolutely fucking mind blowing end result. There is a bit of arseing around in the prep for this recipe that will take […]

10 years ago

Michelle Darmody is one of the coolest foodies in Dublin, who is most well known for her famous Cake Cafe, an alternative spot that serves delicious food made with only the highest quality ingredients and a commitment to buying from Irish artisan food producers. It obviously goes without saying that the cake in Cake Cafe is ridiculously […]

10 years ago

Ingredients Yields 8 miniature ‘Twix’s’ For the almond base: 2/3 cups of almond flour 2 tbs coconut oil(melted) 2 tbs honey pinch of salt tsp vanilla extract For the caramel filling: 1/4 cup of dates, pitted & soaked for 5 minutes 2 tbs honey pinch of salt For the chocolate covering: 90g of 85% dark […]

10 years ago

When it comes to putting a shape on Dublin (and indeed Ireland’s) flourishing, local music scene, few are more at the forefront than these four lads from Lucan who refused to stop ’til we all took notice, The Riptide Movement. On the cusp of another great year, having just been signed for global release, and […]

10 years ago

If there’s one thing Dubliners have grown accustom to, it’s fantastic asian food. Thanks to the likes of Saba and their wonderful resident chef, Tao, we no longer have to travel far and wide for fantastic Thai or Vietnamese cuisine, with great restaurants popping up around the city, the food has finally come to us. […]

10 years ago

No no, not that type of virgin, virgin cocktails.  Being a non drinker in Ireland is a funny aul thing. People want to know if I’m up the duff, on antibiotics, very religious, Amish, the child of an alcoholic, in recovery myself, blah blah blah. I’m none of those things, I just don’t need alcohol […]

10 years ago