All The Food

Half the halls aren’t even decked yet but that hasn’t stopped the starting gun being fired on the annual Christmas sandwich scramble. Like Mariah Carey kicking down the doors at the first whiff of winter, we spotted the earliest entrant on this list back on November 5th! Here’s everywhere in Dublin you can get a taste of Christmas in the north and southside suburbs. Check out the city centre, Smithfield and Stoneybatter here , and read our verdicts here . It’s beginning to lo

We feel like we're partly to blame for the Christmas sandwich hysteria that's overtaken the capital after our coverage and taste tests last year, and at last count there were over 100 Christmas sandwiches ready for testing across the city (compared to the 30 we counted last year). While we're good, we're not that good, but we have managed to try 21 so far, and are ready to tell you which ones are worth queuing for and which deserve a sharp swerve...