The Meeting House popped up in the place of Eden last December, and it’s been steadily building a great following since. Unfortunately, it wasn’t until last night that I got the chance to check it out, having heard great things for the past while. With a banging hangover from extended St. Patrick’s Day celebrations over […]
9 years ago
It’s not like Bray has been in need of dramatic intervention in the area of casual dining. Platform Pizza has a reputation as one of the most difficult places in the Greater Dublin area in which to get a seat, while The Big Dog’s Galley beside the rebooted Harbour Bar serves burgers and chips that […]
9 years ago
If you’re familiar with the name of this website, then you’re probably aware that we kinda have a thing for Dublin. So we’d like to take a moment and consider just what makes this city so damn great. Here are 49 things about this city that make us go YES! 1. When the weather is […]
9 years ago
You’ve probably heard poutine being mentioned quite a lot recently; it seems everyone has gone a bit mental for what could be a very Irish dish, if the Canadians hadn’t come up with it first…. What is it? Poutine: basically a fancy plate of chips, with cheese curds and a light gravy. In some places […]
9 years ago
We do some of the best burgers in the world on this little island – but let’s face it. You won’t be able to die happily until you’ve worked your way through this list. 1. The Pornburger This isn’t a restaurant, but rather a website set up by one man with an obsession with creating […]
9 years ago
Last weekend, we ran a piece on Lovin Dublin about eight habits that restaurants need to cut out in order to vastly improve the customer experience. It was written from a consumer point of view, but several members of the services industry got in touch with reasons – some more valid than others – as […]
9 years ago
Let’s face it: nobody does indulgent food quite like the American. And when it comes to the most important meal of the day, never mind bacon, pancakes and steak – instead it’s all about this staggering array of cereals that generally contain about 8,000% of you daily recommended sugar intake. Here are 27 examples where […]
9 years ago
We’ve all been there – the standard night out, that follows the predictable trajectory to a tee. Here are the 27 steps to those nights that we’ll all be all-too-familiar with, illustrated – just to make things interesting, for a change – with some of the weirdest stock imagery we could get our hands on. […]
9 years ago
The chef, writer and broadcaster Paolo Tullio has died, his agent confirmed this evening. Known to Irish audiences as a resident critic on RTÉ’s The Restaurant, and a regular contributor to Moncrieff on Newstalk, he first moved to Ireland in 1968 as a Trinity student. Almost a decade later, in 1977, he bought Armstrong’s Barn […]
9 years ago
This month, we’re giving away an amazing surf holiday for two, with thanks to surfholidays.com and Aer Lingus. To find out more, and to vote for this story to win, see below! By Rebecca Gardiner I was in India with a friend and we decided to take a trip to Goa. We were on the […]
9 years ago
Remember those loveable oddballs who terrorised Ray D’Arcy? Well they’re coming back to our screens, but this time they’ll be even more animated – well, no actually, they’ll just be in cartoon form. The two messers are set to make a comeback next Spring with 26 episodes, but from the looks of it things will […]
9 years ago
The Workman’s Club is turning five years old this week and they plan to kick off the birthday celebration with a comedy performance lead by Al Porter. The festivities will involve a week-long set of very special shows, and to really drive home the fact that this is their fifth birthday, each show is just […]
9 years ago