Olivier’s restauant Vaughans pub, Terenure

This is one of those places that only generous people share because when it gets too packed, we may not find a seat. What a find. Most lunch days for the last few weeks you will find the Gobbler and a friend eating here. It’s tremendous. Olivier who owns Les Maison des Gourmet, the french

Kafka in Rathmines

Kafka is a chic cafe and restaurant in Rathmines, an area in Dublin 6 that has traditionally been home to students and flatdwellers. Rathmines main street is a bit grotty with higgeldy piggeldy buildings that are in need of an urgent update but just two minutes away, the side streets give way to strings of [...]

The Saddle Room, The Shelbourne Hotel

thedublingobbler appears to be one of the few fans of the Saddle Room, the landmark restaurant at the Shelbourne Hotel, certainly among the food writing fraternity or if anecdotal comments are anything to go by. However, given that we are food critics, it is with great sadness and regret that we say it is not [...]

Furama

Furama in Dublin 4 is one of the finest Chinese restaurants in Dublin and to prove it, it was awarded Ethnic Restaurant of the Year 2008. It has been around a long time, partly because it does not try to be fashionable. It also helps that it is situated in the Dublin 4 affluent belt [...]

Fafies Creperie

Fafies Creperie is a real find. Tucked away in a Dublin side street (at 2 Lower Kevin Street, Dublin 8 it offers keenly-priced sustenance and authenticity in a city that is increasingly prone to banal, conveyor-belt coffee shops.

Fallon and Byrne

Fallon and Byrne, the gourmet food emporium that lives in a magnificent building on Exchequer Street off Grafton Street, is a fine example of what you can do when you take a risk. The owners have put their money where their mouth is and for that reason, we too have supported this new venture with [...]

Chez Max

We’ve been frequenting Chez Max, this petite french bistro off Dame Street, for quite some time now. Years in fact, possibly almost as long as it has been open. We like it for a few reasons. It is authentic in all the ways that matter. The food is french, the owner is french, the atmosphere [...]

Browne’s Cafe at Sandymount, Dublin 4

Everyone loves Brownes, it lives in the annals of South Dublin folklore. This little delicatessen and cafe squeezes in about 40 people on weekends for coffee and breakfast after a long brisk walk on Sandymount Strand. The ozone in the air must really work up an appetite because the food here is one of the [...]

Carluccio’s

Antonio Carluccio is an avuncular jolly bear of a man, epitomising everything that is good and joyful about Italian food and cooking. His book Complete Italian Food is so good that thedublingobbler has two of them. They seem to be that kind of book that you buy for yourself and that a friend also gives [...]

Lock’s Restaurant

Lock’s restaurant, once an old Dublin haunt for well-heeled corporate diners has changed hands and is now beloved of people who crave that indefinable thing called