You may not have won our TGIF competition on Friday just gone, a prize that’d put an end to all those sleepless nights over Mother’s Day worries (no but really, if you lost sleep over this you should really get out more), but fear not, there’s still time and there’s plenty of options. So you […]

10 years ago

You’ll be familiar with Irish Travel Writer of the Year, Pol O Conghaile, for his Lovin Dublin feature on the city’s hidden gems. As his title would suggest, Pol is a prolific travel writer, a National Geogrphic traveller, having wandered far and wide, discovering where and what we should all be seeing. He’s also a […]

10 years ago

Ingredients Avocado Pre Cooked Prawns Lemon Really Good Bread 1 Red Chilli Garlic Coriander Chilli Cheese We’ve all gotten into the habit of going out for brunch but there is absolutely no reason why we can’t be making it at home and having it turn our just as nice (and far cheaper) than the fancy […]

10 years ago

Food trends seem to come in waves in our little capital city. We had cupcakes, burritos and the city is now drowning in a sea of slick new cocktails and craft beers. The biggest trend at the moment though is pulled pork – you can’t turn a corner without seeing a different variation of the […]

10 years ago

We love finding and sharing the best things in Dublin with you here on the blog but we also encourage you guys to take photos with #lovindublin on either Twitter or Instagram. The standard seems to get better every single week and just firing up the Hashtag has us drooling and loving the city we […]

10 years ago

If you have any friends or family outside the Dublin metro area, you probably know the fundamental truth of living in the city: eventually, you will be forced to play the tour guide. Maybe you moved in from the country after college and your granny’s popping in for the day from Mullingar. Maybe you made […]

10 years ago

Last I met up with India Power who is quickly gaining a name for herself as a healthy food blogger with a hugely popular blog Little Green Spoon that has fans from all over the world keen to find the tastiest but guilt-free recipes available. We met for lunch in Alchemy where we chowed down […]

10 years ago

The French are known to be an arrogant bunch. Cheese eating surrender monkeys (Groundkeeper Willie’s words, not mine) who spend more time going on strike than they do going to the toilet. Last time I checked I think they’d got their working week down to about 18 hours and they still weren’t happy. Having said […]

10 years ago

Ingredients Oats Light Coconut Milk Satsumas Pomegranate Pear Cinnamon Nutmeg (optional) Ginger (optional) Honey Christmas is one of the most decadent and indulgent months of the year. With an endless stream of Christmas parties, it’s easy to overindulge. Total Produce Foodservice sent us in a box of their favourite seasonal fruits to experiment with so […]

10 years ago

San Lorenzos is fast becoming the must visit place for brunch in the capital with people being turned away every weekend from their buzzing restaurant. As I told them, one of the only reasons they missed out on the best brunch award at Lovin Dublin Live was because they were so new to the scene in terms […]

10 years ago

Anthony Remedy is a well known restaurant promoter and consultant, so if there’s one person to ask about the best places to check out in the city, it’s him. We caught up with him last week to find out where we should be checking out in Dublin right now. So Anthony, where’s you favourite place […]

10 years ago

I sold my home in Ranelagh during the summer. I did so for two reasons… Firstly, I thought it was a good time to sell and secondly, I’d grown tired of Ranelagh.  The first reason relates to the property market fluctuations and that can be argued until the cows come home but the second point is my own personal […]

10 years ago