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

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

Every city has good coffee and although I’ve already selected my best in Dublin I thought limiting you all to one place just wouldn’t be fair. With that in mind I wanted to pot the question out to the foodies following the blog on Twitter and see what they thought. I don’t know about you […]

10 years ago

Remember when the days of going to a pub in Dublin were about getting pissed and having the craic? That was before the word craic got replaced with having the LOLs and prinking became the norm. You’d take a 50 out of the drink link, get 8 pints, a pack of smokes, couple of bags […]

10 years ago

Something that you’ll hear a lot of people say is that there is nothing to do in Dublin but drink. It does sometimes feel like that when you are trapped in the head fuck mixture of bad weather, mates drinking and wanting to escape a shit week in work. Most of us tend to get […]

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

I’ve spent the last 3 days in San Francisco which competes with Berlin, Dublin and Melbourne as my favourite city on the planet. They are all unique in their own way but the combination of tech and food makes SF a very serious contender. I love cherry picking brilliant things in other cities (here is […]

10 years ago

We painstakingly make lists of the best things to eat, drink and do in Dublin. We release one a week and people use them as a resource to explore their city. Over the last few months tons of people having been asking us to put them all in one place so as they can point […]

10 years ago

The whole city has gone absolutely brunch fucking mad. I remember the days a few years ago when Odessa was pretty much the only place in town that did a decent brunch menu and had a buzzing room. Something happened though recently and every Dubliner suddenly realised what the rest of the world knew…brunch is […]

10 years ago

Tonight I am among vampires, drinking coffee in the dark. Ireland didn’t always have a twenty four hour Starbucks. Once, not very long ago, we didn’t have Starbucks at all. But now the future is here–how far we have come!–and I’m sitting in the former headquarters of Anglo Irish Bank at 3am on a Thursday, next […]

10 years ago

For a year my job was to look at food porn all day. Well, it was a bit more complicated than that. I was the community manager (that is, I ran Facebook and Twitter) for a cheese brand, and would spend my days befriending bored teenagers and their even more bored mothers and posting pictures […]

10 years ago

Let me preface this review with the fact that I am not a restaurant reviewer – think of me more as a food critic masquerading as Karl Pilkington for a week. I went to China and ate McDonald’s, I can cook one dish, and when in doubt, I smother most meals with Ballymaloe relish. My […]

10 years ago