All The Food

We adore a culinary change in the seasons, and this week's newly dropped dishes are shouting AUTUMN at the top of their lungs, with fresh black truffles, leek gratin, and the hot drinks line up we wait all year for. There's also one flash of aperitivo-laced summer for all those struggling with the leaves falling around us... 1) Winter drinks @ Perky's Have you really lived through winter in Dublin if you've never joined the snaking queue at Perky's in Raheny for their leg

Filipino lunch specials, tasty buns, and a starry-eyed pre-dessert that demands you find a good reason for a special occasion dinner. Here's what we're going to bed thinking about this week... 1) The new lunch menu, Kaldero Kaldero is officially open for lunch from Thursday - Saturday, and their three new dishes are a nod to where it all began with Bahay. There's Lugaw (chicken, ginger and rice broth, house chilli oil, soft egg, herbs and "crunch"), Bisteak Sambos (dry ag

From a parting glance at one season to a fully-fledged embrace of another; a hero ingredient served up eight ways in one dish; to another inspiring a whole menu; there’s a lot to get your teeth around in Dublin this week... 1) Pear, vanilla and pecan tuille, Volumes Mother. Of. Mercy. We liked Volumes plenty on our initial recon at the start of the year but their strength-to-strength surge on the patisserie front especially has us plotting a return visit. Landing ex-Ellio

What’s with all the Italian sandwiches? They’re getting to be like Dublin buses – you wait around for one for ages and then they all appear at once (or drop off the screen like you hallucinated their existence). Given the queues still snaking out of Morso on Drury Street and Stoneybatter’s Banco months on from opening, there seems to be more than enough market to support yet more sammidges all’italiana. Are they just hopping on the bandwagon? To be fair – despite the “N

We've got beef sandwiches on the brain, humita in our hearts, and caramel brûlée croobes on the most wanted list. Strap yourself in for five reasons to get out there and eat this week... 1) Sunday roast schiacciata, Morso After groaning our way through the porchetta sandwich at Morso last week (seriously, have you tasted it?), we have an admittedly unhealthy obsession going on. So did we need another reason to visit? Absolutely not. But the sight of their Sunday roast schiacc

Autumn has officially arrived, or at least the clouds have, but we’re still holding out for those brief flashes of Dublin sunshine. Thankfully September’s specials are giving us plenty of reasons to embrace the new season. Here are the fab five we can’t stop thinking about this week... 1) Blackberry medovyk sour cream croissant, Elliot’s Elliot’s has several September specials, but the blackberry medovyk sour cream croissant had our eyes feeling bigger than our stomachs. Laye

Steak frites but make it bigger and better; spenny chocolate cake but make it sexier; sandwiches but make them sunnier - the colour, flavour and imagination dials are turned to the top in Dublin this week. Here's what made our hit list... 1) Ribeye steak frites, Hera If you imagine steak frites as a simple bistro-style slip of a thing with some crunchy fries on the side, prepared to be dazzled and amazed by the one at Hera. A 9oz, aged ribeye comes swimming in green peppercor

Our first sighting of blackcurrants; crab cannoli; and a chicken caesar slice are just some of the thing enticing us out of the house and into that muggy air this week. Here's the top five things we want to eat in Dublin this week... 1) Blackcurrant and honey twist, Scéal Bakery Scéal have released this month's seasonal Danish and it's a summertime cracker. They've been playing around with the shape of their pastries and came up with this twist, brushed it with a tart Irish b

Make like you're in Rome with some fritti, in the Middle East with lamb Arayes, or get your feet back on homegrown with an all-Ireland all-star sandwich line up. And don't get us started on those July bakery specials or we'll be going for a good 10 minutes. Here's what we really really want to eat in Dublin this week... 1) Charred lamb arayes, Chubby's We've lost count of how many times Clontarf's Chubby's has appeared on the list of things we most want to eat that week - don

Summer sun means seafood spectaculars all round, and all we want this week are seafood crudo, sparkling cod, and lobster rolls. If you're similarly minded, read on for the five things we most want to eat in Dublin this week... 1) Seabass crudo with cucumber aguachile, Mister S This seabass crudo with cucumber aguachile and dill oil hit the Mister S menu a few weeks ago, beautifully timed with last week's heatwave. There's another hot spell en route later this week if you want

A feast fit for a hungry father; a summer starter with the potential to be one of this year's best; and the affogato slingers going the extra mile to make us all happy this summer. Here's five things we'd like to race out the door for this week... 1) Tonkotsu, Space Jaru Space Jaru obviously think Dads like pork tonkotsu, because they're bringing this monster plate back in time for Father's Day this weekend. A sharing plate if ever we saw one, this has triple carbs, and three

Courgette flowers; Irish strawberry pies; nam jim dipping sauce - summer has undoubtedly arrived and menus across the city have never looked brighter. There were an ungodly amount of things we wanted to include in our most wanted list this week, but we painstakingly got it down to this five... 1) Tempura courgette flowers, Craft We've spotted our first tempura courgette flowers of the season, and this is a good 'un. Craft in Terenure are taking these beautiful specimens from

With temperatures due to hit 20c this weekend we're thinking pastries in the park, picnic sandwiches, and the Kool Pop throwback brought up to adult standards that we didn't even know was missing in our greedy little lives. Here's what we're most thinking about eating this week... 1) All the pastries, Around The Corner Alma's little sis Around The Corner is soooo dedicated to the pastry cause that they have TWO different suppliers and make even more sweet mouthfuls in house.

Anyone else positively reeling at the fact that it's May? Is it summer now? Or does that start in June? Why is it still only 13c? Will summer be good again like last year? Or a washout like the one before? We're channelling a PMA attitude with cold breakfast places, PB&J (not what you think) toasts, and BBQ lamb skewers... 1) Danish breakfast plate, Volumes The perfect breakfast doesn't exi... Volumes have just added this Copenhagen-style breakfast plate to the menu and if th

This sunshine is making the sad state of the world seem soooooo much better, and with peachy sandwiches, langoustine toasts, and purple pancakes, that feeling seems to be spreading to the city's plates too. Here are the five hard fought dishes we've singled out in the capital this week... 1) The peachy boy, Loverboy We're suckers for a summery sandwich, so when we saw this from Loverboy at the weekend we were all "STOP THE LIGHTS". The 'Peachy Boy' is tarting up prosciutto w