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PEARSE LYONS DISTILLERY NATIONAL GALLERY OF DELICIOUS DUBLIN TOURS IRELAND Opening August 2017 www.deliciousdublintours.com/food- The historic St. James’ Church is set www.nationalgallery.ie tours to open in August as the Pearse Lyons After more than six years of Delicious Dublin Tours have launched a Distillery, a boutique whiskey distillery. redevelopment, the Historic Wings of new Howth Seafood Tour. This walking The renovation of the church and the National Gallery of Ireland re-opened and tasting tour of Howth village will bring adjoining buildings has been ongoing to the public in June. The Gallery has visitors on a tasty journey of Irish seafood since 2014 and soon the doors will open created new spaces, uncovered original discovery. The tour will introduce groups to this unique development that will elements, brought these wings back to to some of the freshest, highest quality showcase the rich history of distilling in their original beauty and innovated for the seafood available, while also telling the Dublin’s Liberties. Visitors will have the future. From June 17th – September 17th, food history of this coastal village. Visitors opportunity to feel, taste, see, smell and the National Gallery will host a special will learn about Irish seafood history, taste learn about the process of distilling Irish exhibition Vermeer and the Masters of the best products from the sea, visit food whiskey and take home some of their very Genre Painting: Inspiration and Rivalry. producers and enjoy seafood dishes at own to share the story. This exhibition will bring together some local seafood restaurants. 60 paintings from around the world. As many as ten works by Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) will be included in The phrase ‘chancing your the exhibition, which represents almost a arm’ originated in St. Patrick’s third of Vermeer’s surviving oeuvre and George Bernard Shaw the third highest number of works by the bequeathed the royalties of Cathedral, Dublin, where you artist ever assembled in the world. had to put your hand into his play ‘Pygmalion’ - better a hole to open the Medieval known world-wide as the Chapter House door musical My Fair Lady - to the National Gallery of Ireland. He is also the only person in the world to have a Nobel Prize and an Oscar, both of which he received for Pygmalion DUBLIN DISCOVERY TRAILS www.dublindiscoverytrails.com Unlock the treasures and stories of Ireland’s capital city with the Dublin THE TENEMENT MUSEUM, 14 Discovery Trails, a new series of free, self- HENRIETTA STREET guided walking trails. Let magical tales of the city’s colourful past weave their spell Opening Autumn 2017 as you wander from trail to trail, each one accessible when you download the Dublin 14 Henrietta Street contains a wealth of Discovery Trails app. There are eight physical evidence that will allow future Discovery Trails available to download: generations to explore and understand Rebellion; Story of Dublin; Echoes of the social history of the house and War; Empire; The ‘Real’ Dublin trail; The street from the 1750’s to the 1970’s. The ESCAPE BOATS Dubline and two new trails focused on the Tenement Museum will act as a centre for northside of Dublin. the exploration of Georgian and tenement www.escapeboats.ie life in North Inner City Dublin. An escape room unlike anything you have seen before. The first live escape room on The Choir School in St. Patrick’s a boat. A live adventure game for 2 to 6 Cathedral was founded in 1432, players. Work together to solve puzzles, crack codes, uncover mysteries and sixty years before Columbus escape the perils of the Zorg Ella boat. discovered America
VISITDUBLIN.COM 72% of visitors to Dublin are here for the first time/28% repeat
GLASNEVIN CEMETERY MUSEUM – “DEAD DUBLIN WHISKEY TOURS INTERESTING” TOUR www.dublinwhiskeytours.com www.glasnevinmuseum.ie Journey through 1000 years of Irish whiskey; hear tales of ancient monks, This new tour of Glasnevin Cemetery backyard stills, modern alchemists and will give an alternative view of the everything in between. In just two hours varied heritage that Ireland’s largest RICHMOND BARRACKS you will be given the skills to know the cemetery holds and the history within its difference between single malt, single walls. Visitors will learn of its sculpture, www.richmondbarracks.ie grain, and Irish pot still whiskey. Dublin symbolism, architecture, art, sporting Set in the historic Richmond Barracks, Whiskey Tours offer two-hour tours, with heroes, horticulture, natural life and much a new exhibition centre was developed three tours to choose from. more. They will visit the graves and hear to commemorate the 100th anniversary the stories of little known figures such as of the 1916 Easter Rising. Within the Maria Higgins, a woman who died once barracks walls over 3,000 Irish rebels yet was buried twice in Glasnevin; an Irish 81% of visitors to Dublin were held – this interactive, multimedia chaplain who witnessed the liberation attraction traces the story of the site from travel independently/ 41% part of Bergen Belsen concentration camp; military barracks to housing estate and the last Irish winner of Wimbledon….and from school to exhibition centre. Discover of a couple many more. this lost chapter of Kilmainham’s and Inchicore’s history in the heart of Dublin.
JAMESON DISTILLERY BOW ST. FLEEING THE FAMINE www.jamesondistillery.ie GPO WITNESS HISTORY www.hiddendublinwalks.com The Jameson Distillery in Smithfield Passengers are invited to journey re-opened in March following an ¤ 11m www.gpowitnesshistory.ie around Ireland during famine years as investment. The new look Jameson Take a tour of one of Dublin’s newest actors weave together a moving and Distillery Bow St. in Smithfield, features visitor attractions GPO Witness History. enlightening journey through Ireland’s three fully guided experiences: Bow St. Housed in the iconic and historical GPO darkest hour on board a custom designed Experience, The Whiskey Makers and The building on O’Connell Street, this is an bus. Using journals, letters, news reports, Whiskey Shakers – all of which are fully interactive and immersive exhibition speeches, poems, and survivors’ stories. immersive, story rich and fun! You will be which focuses on the 1916 rising. During Hidden Dublin paint a vivid picture of that invited to touch, taste, smell and interact your tour you will experience the events historic time. with Jameson, in the original Bow St. from an eyewitness perspective of those Distillery buildings. who were present during the rising.
DUBLIN SMILES VINTAGE TEA TOURS EPIC THE IRISH EMIGRATION www.wildatlanticflights.com/#SMILES www.vintageteatours.ie MUSEUM Experience Dublin from a different Take a step back in time with Vintage Tea viewpoint…from the sky! Take off www.epicchq.com Tours and experience Dublin in a unique from Weston Airport where you will way. Climb on board a double decker Enjoy a visit to EPIC The Irish Emigration immediately get to experience Dublin bus fondly named ‘Pauline’, snuggle up Museum at the CHQ building in Dublin’s and its surrounding countryside. Flying and allow them treat you to a little bit of docklands. A new state of the art visitor into Dublin City you will see Phoenix Park, nostalgia. Enjoy their renowned Afternoon experience that showcases the unique Áras an Uachtaráin, home of the President Tea delicacies, good conversation and tap journey of the Irish nation, where stories of Ireland and Dublin Zoo. Fly over the along to some fabulous 1950’s jazz. This is of old are told through the technology famous Guinness Brewery where you Afternoon Tea with a difference. of now. The museum spreads itself will get to see it in all its glory. You will be across 21 galleries of vibrant Irish life, over the heart of Dublin where you will as it illuminates the stories of Ireland’s get views of the River Liffey, the Spire, St. Lawrence of Arabia was communities overseas – past, present and Patrick’s Cathedral and much more! Enjoy future. spectacular views of Dublin Bay before born in Dublin heading back to base.
VISITDUBLIN.COM LITTLE MUSEUM OF DUBLIN NEIGHBOURHOOD WALKS AND STROLL WALKING TOURS www.littlemuseum.ie FAB FOOD TRAILS www.gostroll.com The Little Museum have three new tours; www.fabfoodtrails.ie on Wednesday mornings at 10am Sarah New to the walking tour scene in Dublin Costigan celebrates some of the great A new series of neighbourhood walks is Stroll, offering six unique walking tours women in Irish history with The Women’s brought to you by Fab Food Trails. of Dublin; Dublin after Dark: Untold Tales History of Ireland. On Thursday mornings Starting with one a month, each in a of the Paranormal, Crafted: Taste 8 of at 10am, Kathryn McCance charts the different part of Dublin, all within a stone’s Dublin’s Finest Micro-Brewed Beers, story of The Writers of Dublin, from Oscar throw of Dublin’s city centre. Expect Step by Step: Irish Dancing and Music Wilde to Roddy Doyle. Finally on Fridays lots of tastings and lots of meetings as throughout the Ages, Silicon Valley of at 3pm, join Justine Murphy as she sings you stroll the city’s small and very local Europe, Lives of Legends: Music & Myths, you through the story of The Songs of neighbourhoods. You never know where Ireland’s Soul, and Fighting Irish: From Dublin. Celebrating 200 years of the you might go, what you might eat or who Olympic Gold to Conor McGregor. Licensed Vintners Association, The Little you might meet! Museum has launched a new exhibition, A Little History of the Dublin Pub which tells the remarkable story of Dublin’s public houses. With photographs and artifacts Abraham “Bram” Stoker from some of Dublin’s finest pubs, as who wrote the famous novel well as an authentic snug built into the exhibition space, it’s an exhibition not to Dracula, was born in 1847 in be missed. The show runs until September 24th 2017. Clontarf, a suburb of Dublin. The title of the book is said to come from the Irish CENTRAL BANK OF IRELAND words droch-fhoula VISITOR SPACE (pronounced “droc-ola”) which www.centralbank.ie means “bad blood” The Central Bank has opened up a free public visitor space as part of their new docklands campus. The Visitor Space currently hosts two exhibitions; Pounds, Shillings & Independence explores the development of an independent Irish HAPPENINGS currency, following the establishment of www.happenings.ie Saorstát Éireann (the Irish Free State) in 1922. The Euro Exhibition takes visitors Running from May through to October, on a tour of euro currency, from its summer cinema is back with Happenings. beginnings back in history to the single Happenings always strive to bring you the currency we use today. best live entertainment on offer in fun and unique ways. They’ve partnered up with 7up again this year and together they’re going to bring you a lovely mix of classics COFFEE CRAWL WITH FAB with something for everyone to enjoy FOOD TRAILS under the stars! www.fabfoodtrails.ie It’s all about the coffee and Dublin city 52% of visitors to Dublin are has more than its fair share of great coffee houses, bars and gifted baristas. Join under 35 years of age the Fab Food Trails team for a Fab Food Coffee Trail and learn more about the exploding coffee movement. NUMBER TWENTY TWO www.numbertwentytwo.ie Number Twenty Two on South Anne Ulysses has been voted Street presents a brand new Irish music, Number 1 in many of the dance and performance spectacular. From 8th June 2017 till the end of world’s Top 100 novels of the August, Slide Step – The Dublin Show 20th century lists and its featuring the award winning Slide Step Dance Company. Slide Step fuses Irish author, James Joyce has two dance forms in a spectacle of cutting DUBLIN BOAT TOUR museums dedicated to him, edge modern choreography with light and sound on a thrilling journey through www.dublinboattour.com a bridge across the River Ireland’s colourful tradition of dance and The Dublin Boat Tour offers two different Liffey and features in many song. From the social dances of the past, tours; experience some of Dublin’s iconic to the cutting edge modern choreography sights from the River Liffey and take a of the exhibits in The Dublin of Ireland today, Slide Step - The Dublin tour around Dalkey Island. The tour is Show showcases the very best of Irish limited to 6 people, allowing for a more Writers Museum performance art with breathtaking aerial tailored and memorable experience. display and show-stopping vocal talent.
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215,000 48,223 Flights Hotels/Guesthouses 16 24 47 Airlines B&Bs/Hostel rooms 24 Castles and 185 Routes Beaches 127 Bridges cross in Dublin Cathedrals 41 Countries the River Liffey Cruise Ships Dublin Airport
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Major Sports 1,345,402 Stadia Georgian Squares Population of Dublin 2 5 Pubs 169 Activity Providers
Parks & Gardens Voted one of the friendliest 56 740 cities in the world!
Failte Ireland supported festivals and 4 27 30events 14 102 in 2017 Theatres Nobel Prize Winners
Restaurants Visitor attractions 890 Distilleries & Breweries 215,000 48,223 Flights Hotels/Guesthouses 16 24 47 Airlines B&Bs/Hostel rooms 24 Castles and 185 Routes Beaches 127 Bridges cross in Dublin Cathedrals 41 Countries the River Liffey Cruise Ships Dublin Airport
HOTEL EXCELLENT
Major Sports 1,345,402 Stadia Georgian Squares Population of Dublin 2 5 Pubs 169 Activity Providers
Parks & Gardens Voted one of the friendliest 56 740 cities in the world!
Failte Ireland supported festivals and 4 27 30events 14 102 in 2017 Theatres Nobel Prize Winners
Restaurants Visitor attractions 890 Distilleries & Breweries VISITDUBLIN.COM NEW RESTAURANTS, CAFÉS AND BARS
HERON AND GREY PICKLE RESTAURANT FISHBONE www.heronandgrey.com www.picklerestaurant.com www.fishbone.ie A new Michelin Star restaurant focused Specialising in North India cuisine run Located opposite the iconic wooden on serving modern international cuisine by award winning chef Sunil Ghai and bridge in Clontarf, Fishbone is a modern using only the best seasonal ingredients restauranteur Benny Jacobs who have Irish seafood restaurant. Its focus centres available. Their menu reinvents itself on a worked hard to bring a delightful and on celebrating the fruits of our waters, bi-weekly basis to consistently maintain sophisticated approach to traditional delivering not only the finest seafood but quality, freshness and creativity. The main Indian food. the best from our land. It is headed by team comprises of Andrew Heron, who the team behind the award-winning Bay manages front of house and Damien Grey, Restaurant. who is the head chef. 41% of visitors to Dublin come LEMON & DUKE CRILLOS from Mainland Europe, 28% www.lemonandduke.ie www.cirillos.ie USA, A nice new bar offering good food, tank They offer authentic Italian antipasti, beer, a unique draft range and a stylish pasta dishes and wood-fired pizzas for 20% Great Britain, but welcoming vibe, a sister to The lunch and dinner, with all their pasta, 11% Germany and 6% France Bridge 1859 owned by Rugby Players Rob breads, pizza dough and ice creams made Kearney, Dave Kearney, Sean O’Brien and fresh in-house every day. Jamie Heaslip.
UNION8 FOREST & MARCY www.union8.ie www.forestandmarcy.ie This is a new contemporary Forest & Marcy is a small neighbourhood Dublin is over 1,000 years old neighbourhood eatery situated in the wine room and kitchen. It is the sister and was originally a Viking heart of the vibrant residential, cultural project of John & Sandy Wyer’s Forest and business district of Dublin 8. Close Avenue. They offer small plates of food settlement to Kilmainham Gaol, IMMA, St. James’s served by Chef Ciaran Sweeney. The food Hospital and Hilton Hotel Kilmainham. is modern and seasonal, using the best ingredients with a focus on flavour. The wine list is small but good. Both food and wine lists change frequently. 26% of visitors stay in B&Bs, THE RAG TRADER 61% in Hotels and 16% in Hostels CHARLOTTE QUAY www.theragtrader.ie Once a fabric warehouse, this building is www.charlottequay.ie now home to The Rag Trader. This unique PICHET A sister restaurant of Coppinger Row, and intimate bar takes you on a cultural Head Chef Killian Durkan has created and history trip back to the days of the www.pichet.ie a range of menus, with the best of Irish rag trade in Dublin, serving stout and produce to create a fresh, exciting dining whiskey with a very rustic feel. They also Pichet restaurant and cocktail bar has experience with a Mediterranean feel. host whiskey tasting classes. reopened under the helm of award winning chef, Stephen Gibson. It offers a unique dining and bar experience to compliment the good food. The menu has hints of French elegance but with a modern Irish twist.
THE COBURG BRASSERIE www.thecoburgdublin.com The menu features international dishes to complement traditional Irish cuisine, using locally sourced ingredients. To keep things fresh, the menu changes with the seasons, to ensure an ever changing dining experience.
RICHMOND www.richmondrestaurant.ie Based in Portobello Dublin this restaurant offers up an array of contemporary cooking from Head Chef David O’Byrne formerly of Mulberry Gardens & La Mere Zou. Together with Owner and Manager Russell Wilde formerly of The Butcher Grill & Cafe Bar Deli, each brings their expertise in the restaurant business to the fore. VISITDUBLIN.COM Kavanagh’s pub in Glasnevin (also known as the Gravediggers) has been run by the same family since 1833. The pub gains its nickname from its location next to Glasnevin graveyard, where the gravediggers used to knock on the back wall of THE IVY IDLEWILD the www.theivydublin.ie www.idlewilddublin.com pub to ask for a pint which This bar is situated on the corner of A friendly neighbourhood bar in the heart Dame and Parliament Street opposite of Fade Street, with a selection of Irish would then be served the historic Dublin City Hall. The Ivy is craft beers, whiskies, gins and cocktails. a luxurious continental style bar with a through a hole in the wall contemporary Irish character. BAR RUA linking the pub and the graveyard www.barrua.ie This is a cosy and inviting bar located in the heart of Dublin City. This Gastropub serves delicious and authentic Irish artisan Croke Park’s Hill 16 was foods to sample along with a cracking selection of Irish and International Craft constructed from the rubble left Beers, all under one roof. in Sackville Street (now O’Connell TANG Street) after the 1916 Rising. THE STONE LEAF www.yogism.ie Croke Park is the 3rd largest www.thestoneleaf.ie Tang is Yogism’s savoury sibling. With a sports stadium in Europe with a This gastro eatery is located on Lower vision to incorporate yogurt into almost Leeson Street and is complete with an everything, they have naturally gone capacity of 82,300! outdoor terrace, elegant café and a light down the Middle Eastern route. There’s night venue called the Amber Rooms. lots of tzatziki and twists on tzatziki, flavoured yogurts, honey, black olive. It’s really nice stuff. The yogurt is supplied COTTO by Glenisk and everything is made from scratch and in house! ZOZIMUS www.cotto.ie Opened by the same people who run www.zozimusbar.ie Oxmantown café near the fruit markets. THE MARITIME CAFÉ @ THE Zozimus has an elegant ambiance with Cotto serves coffee by day, brunch at the NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM indoor and outdoor areas displayed weekends and pizza in the evenings. www.facebook.com/cafeatthemaritime through the use of hand crafted wooden structures, juxtaposed with elaborate Everything is healthy, vegan and glass structures, free hanging lights, and vegetarian. Between breakfast smoothies contemporary wooden furniture. Their to sandwiches, soups and they even do food offering is good and their drinks vegan cakes and sweets! menu features an expansive collection of small-batch spirits, great wine offering as well as great cocktails. Dublin’s Ha’Penny Bridge is thus called because FARRIER & DRAPER pedestrians had to pay a half www.farrieranddraper.ie penny toll to walk over it Formerly home to The Lost Society, the establishment’s downstairs bar has ample seating, and an impressively well stocked bar. The upstairs bar is located in what was once Lady Powerscourt’s very own bedroom, offering even more space, with alluring decor and good music being provided by an in-house DJ. PUPP CAFÉ J.T. PIM’S www.pupp.ie www.jtpims.ie Handmade scones and pastries available J.T. Pim’s is a traditional bar at heart. as well as their full brunch menu including You’ll find all of the favourites you’d favourites like their salted caramel French expect behind the bar - spiced up with Toast stuffed with Nutella, or homemade craft beers, premium wines and cocktails falafel burger with a superfood salad. made with the finest liquor(s) and freshest If you fancy bringing your canine ingredients. companion along no need to fear, they are fully welcomed and they even have a doggy menu at hand for them!
VISITDUBLIN.COM GOURMET FOOD PARLOUR SPROUT www.gourmetfoodparlour.com/dun- www.sproutfoodco.com laoghaire Sprout are best known for their cold Tradition and great flavour are the heart pressed juices however they also have and soul of Irish cuisine. Since 2006 soups, salads, sandwiches and wraps. Gourmet Food Parlour has invited people Their focus is locally sourced and seasonal to take part in sharing this tradition. Tasty produce….they source their ingredients in breakfast and brunch creations, lunch Smithfield Market at 4am each morning menus inspired to tantalise the taste buds and everything is made on their premises. or enjoy their fun tapas nights with chefs They also serve 3fe coffee….yum! sharing plates. Serving funky style food using simple locally sourced ingredients, all served in a fun relaxed way. GAILLOT ET GRAY www.facebook.com/GaillotGrayP Wood fired, French style pizzeria and bakery. Serving artisan breads, pizzas, speciality coffee and indigenous herbal teas. Gaillot et Gray have stayed true to Some famous graduates the initial influence of French food trucks by serving their pizza with emmental of Trinity College are Bram cheese. They use French flour and Stoker, Oscar Wilde and currently import a lot of their salamis and meat toppings from France, though Jonathan Swift they’re currently in talks with some Irish producers to see if they can get a few more Irish ingredients on their menu. NUMBER TWENTY TWO 1837 BAR & BRASSERIE, THE www.numbertwentytwo.ie GUINNESS STOREHOUSE Irish culture has a new home, the heart THE DUBLIN COOKIE COMPANY of Irish culture in Dublin can be found www.guinness-storehouse.com nestled on South Anne Street, Dublin 2. www.thedublincookieco.com This relaxed eatery takes its name from It’s a place where you can dine in a unique After two years of selling their cookies at the year that the now famous pairing environment and be entertained like never various markets, festivals and events in of Guinness with oysters first hit the before. Located on the site of the legendary Dublin, Elaine and Jenny opened their first headlines. Enjoy small plates, hearty mains McGonagles, the building has been cookie shop in the heart of the Liberties in and sharing platters designed to perfectly reincarnated as a magnificent theatre like March 2016. The Dublin Cookie Company complement their bold, flavourful beers. venue that plays host to the most eclectic is the first of its kind in Dublin and Ireland. performances and cultural events you will Selling freshly baked cookies in 10-12 find anywhere in Dublin, as well as offering flavours, cookie dough, flavoured milk, guests the option to dine, a nod to its and coffee from Coffee Culture, and a previous life as The Crystal Ballroom. range of teas from Clement and Pekoe. MR. FOX THE TRAM CAFÉ Over 10 million glasses of www.mrfox.ie www.thetramcafe.com In the heart of Dublin 1, Mr Fox is an Dine like its 1929! From a field in Cavan Guinness - the famous ‘black informal atmospheric bar & dining room to Wolfe Tone Square the tram is now pint’ are enjoyed every single serving the best of local & seasonal a working café, serving freshly cooked ingredients to create modern international food daily. There are hot and cold dishes, day around the world, and 1.8 dishes. Anthony Smith’s cooking has desserts and healthy juices. You can grab billion pints are sold every year been described as natural & honest, and go or sit down and enjoy the meal in presented in a relaxed setting. Open for this beautifully restored, quirky, nostalgic lunch & dinner, Tuesday to Saturday. The tram. restaurant is closed Sundays, Mondays.
BANG BANG Dublin has five Georgian www.facebook.com/bangbangD7 Squares: Parnell, Mountjoy, Taking the old model of the local Merrion, Fitzwilliam and St convenience store but with a twist, Bang Bang is minimalist yet remains cosy. Stephens Green The food is healthy and simple, serving freshly cooked soup and sandwiches at affordable prices. Bang Bang is also a space where locals can pick up their basics. URCHIN MEET ME IN THE MORNING CAFÉ www.urchin.ie www.facebook.com/ Pop down the steps at No.22 Stephen’s meetmeinthemorningcafe/ Green and discover Urchin, the newest Named after a Bob Dylan song this addition to the Cliff Townhouse dining unfussy, bright, welcoming café has a experience. Urchin is a fresh, new venue short and simple menu. There are some that imbues a laid-back seaside hangout. truly captivating tastes being served up An alternative, cool urban space for pre- here from the coffee bar to the kitchen. dinner meet ups or nights out in town.
VISITDUBLIN.COM THE BARBERS SLICE www.facebook.com/barbersbar www.asliceofcake.ie The Barbers is the lifelong dream of Slice is open for breakfast, weekend owner Chris Darby, this old-fashioned brunches, lunch and even dinner a spot is half pub, half barbers, with a hair few days of the week. They use Irish dressing chair in a small room just off the produce and their menu features simple bar where you can have a shave and a healthy dishes and comfort food. haircut while you sup on a pint. They’ve Breakfast includes porridge, raw muesli, pulled out all the stops with the décor, baked eggs, scones, beans on toast greeted by a candy strip pole at the and more. Lunches are a selection of front, brass fixtures, church pew seating, salads, sandwiches, soup, meat and fish vintage hair dryers converted into lamp plates. Dinners are made with quality etc. Irish produce and sound like proper homemade food. HANG DAI ON THE PIGS BACK www.hangdaichinese.com www.onthepigsbackeatery.com One of the newest additions to Camden Nestled away in the middle of Capel Street, Hang Dai is unlike anything else Street, The Pigs Back burgers are made 56% of visitors travel to Dublin in the city. Brought to you by award fresh every day with 100% Irish meat – May-Sept, 35% June-August winning chef Karl Whelan, executive chef meaning that you can enjoy a delicious of Luna, and his business partner, gig guru handmade burger exactly the way you and 14% July Will Dempsey. This authentic Chinese want it. Applying the same attention to restaurant is located in a unique setting detail to everything they make, these with an impressive cocktail list and late burger lovers cut their own chips, create bar promising some of the best DJ’s in their own relishes, dips and mayos from the business, it’s a really exciting new scratch so the food could literally not be MORO KITCHEN concept. fresher and comes in at a fresh price too. www.morokitchen.ie PIGLET WINE BAR Moro brings North African and Levant LOBSTAR souk flavours to Camden Street, capturing www.facebook.com/PigletWineBar www.lobstar.ie the street food of this part of the world in a casual atmosphere. From spicy Piglet Wine Bar is a recently opened Lobstar is a unique lobster and steak harissa falafel wraps, Moroccan style wine oasis in Temple Bar. With a well bistro with a sense of casual cool, located eggs, aubergine pate, marinated grills curated and exclusive selection of wine in heart of Monkstown. Committed and the classic merguez, you have plenty there’s plenty to discover in a relaxed to offering the freshest ingredients to of choice depending on your food style. atmospohere. They have a Mediterranean presenting a seasonal menu that is locally They have something for lunch, dinner influenced menu that includes tapas, focused and globally artistic. and brunch. small dishes and mains, ideal for sharing. DOUGHBOYS ASSASSINATION CUSTARD THE POT BELLIED PIG www.doughboys.ie www.potbelliedpig.ie www.facebook.com/ assassinationcustard Born from one man’s love for sandwiches, Open since January 2017 this new exciting Doughboys was conceived in NYC in 2012 café offers a simple menu of simple dishes This is Dubiln 8’s newest daytime café. and born in Dublin in 2014. Their bread is made up of local seasonal produce. Run by Ken Doherty and his partner Gwen delivered fresh each morning and their Serving breakfast, brunch and lunch McGrath, they both cook, bake and serve meats are roasted in house daily. They with a variety of house staples and daily in the café. It’s the teeniest of places, on cut their vegetables fresh multiple times specials they want to provide customers the corner of Kevin Street and Heytesbury a day and only make small batch recipes with a place where they can come and Street, which locals may know as The of sauces and dressings to ensure they relax. Little Café. The menu is short, changes deliver the freshest products to their daily and is made up of small plates taking customers on every visit. inspiration from Italy and the Middle East.
NoLIta www.nolita.ie Inspired by the New York neighborhood named for its location North of Little Italy (NoLIta), the style is classic Italian eatery meets New York bar with a lively atmosphere and an emphasis on decadence. With extensive menu options, hand-crafted cocktails and world class entertainment NoLIta is set to take you from lunch through to the late night, 7 days a week, without missing a beat.
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VISITDUBLIN.COM FIVE POINTS www.fivepointshx.com Not all great coffee shops have great food, but Five Points are pushing the boat out with clever flavours, pickled vegetables and great produce. The crew from 3fe have set up this new café in Harold’s Cross. Five Points is currently open for business Monday to Friday, 7.30am ‘til 5pm.
EATYARD www.the-eatyard.com Open Thursday to Sunday from 12pm and located next door to The Bernard Shaw, The Eatyard is an innovative street food market space. Their aim to elevate Irish Street Food to a new level and bring a unique casual dining experience to Dublin.
GREEN AND BEAN CAFÉ BAR www.brownthomas.com Green & Bean Café Bar is a new healthy offering with great coffee, honest to goodness fresh juices and power salads. It is located on the newly refurbished premium Athletic and Fitness themed BO•CO Level 2 in Brown Thomas, Dublin.The THE BOWERY menu will change with the seasons, www.boco.ie www.thebowery.ie making use of the best ingredients that BO•CO (short for ‘Bolton Corner’) nature can offer. Green & Bean choose Based in Rathmines, the Bowery is a opened up late last year as a bar and organic where possible, and traditionally unique, dedicated live music venue and wood-fired pizza restaurant. Their menu farmed produce – grown and reared just Rum bar. The décor is a nautical theme, takes its influence from New York pizza as nature intended. They bake all their with some unique features including port joints, whilst the industrial themed décor own great breads including gluten-free holes from the decommissioned Irish gives a nod to the building history as a and low GI. Naval Ship L.E. Setanta and floorboards warehouse. They also serve craft beer, gin from Bolands Mills. The Bowery is a real and cocktails. hotspot for their music; here you’ll hear CONTAINER COFFEE everything from Rock ‘n’ Roll to Ska, www.containercoffee.ie Acoustic to Funk with special guests DROP DEAD TWICE making an appearance. The latest addition to ‘coffee culture’ in www.dropdeadtwice.com Dublin 8 is located in none other than a Located upstairs at Tivoli’s Backstage recycled shipping container on Thomas THE CHELSEA DRUGSTORE on Francis Street, Drop Dead Twice is Street. The café is a slick and modern www.thechelseadrugstore.ie Dublin’s only BYOC (Bring Your Own conception at the Digital Hub that very Cocktail) Bar. It initially opened up as cleverly uses an old container transformed George’s Street is well known for its long a pop-up back in October 2016 for a into a comfortable yet environmentally- and illustrious history and character. The trial run and returned earlier this year. friendly space in a great location. building where the Chelsea Drugstore Simply pay on arrival for allotted times resides, was originally a pharmacy at the (2hrs/3hrs), bring along your own bottle EATON SQUARE turn of the 1900s, it was first opened by of your favourite spirit, and after a quick Messers Whisby and later taken over by talk with a member of the bar team to go www.eatonsquare.restaurant Hayes, Conyngham, and Robinson, Ltd. through your likes and dislikes they will Messers Whisby were famed around make up the perfect cocktail for you. Eaton Square Restaurant, Terenure is the Dublin for researching the healing power brainchild of two best friends, Seán and of cocoa and were the first people to Ronan. They both opened Eaton Square sell it from their pharmacy for medicinal in December 2016. Both are graduates usage! The Chelsea Drugstore is a popular The Rotunda Hospital in Dublin of Ballymaloe and have done their time bohemian-style cocktail bar. in many of the best restaurants in Dublin. was the first maternity hospital They wanted to open a restaurant that in Europe made everything from scratch using Irish L. MULLIGAN WHISKEY SHOP produce. A restaurant with Seán choosing great tasting inexpensive wines, to go www.lmulliganwhiskeyshop.com with Ronan’s wholesome delicious food. L. Mulligan Grocer is an institution in RUIN And so Eaton Square was born. Stoneybatter, infamous for its craft beers and delicious food. The guys at L. www.facebook.com/ruinbardublin Mulligan Grocer also have a keen interest Formally known as MacTurcaill’s, Ruin Bar KLAW POKÈ in whiskey and have recently opened a on Tara Street serves quality craft beers, www.twitter.com/@klawpoke whiskey shop on Clarendon Street, where spirits and food in a chilled, contemporary they sell their own 9 year old Single Malt. environment. Ireland’s first Pokè Joint is now open on Capel Street, Dublin 1. Niall Sabongi of Temple Bar’s wildly successful Klaw has THE JUG ROBERTA’S created a very cool destination for fans of this ubiquitous Hawaiian dish, just when www.facebook.com/thejug40/ www.robertas.ie raw and nutritious food is more in demand The Jug on Francis Street opened its Dublin’s newest restaurant, bar and than ever. doors late last year. Replacing the Dean terrace nestled between East Essex Street Swift with a completely different style, this and Wellington Quay. This spacious eatery cosy spot has a good cocktail offering as is open 7 days a week with brunch served well as reasonable drink deals. every Saturday, Sunday and bank holiday Over 40 golf courses in Dublin Monday.
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