All The Food

It's not just Dublin cafés on a constant pivot to small plates and wine by night - the wine shops are at it now too. Are we complaining? Definitely not, but it’s ever more important to know who's got the good stuff, who's giving you decent value btg, and who's got the food to go with it. Here’s the latest ATF guide on where to drink great wine in Dublin... City centre and surrounds Bar Pez, Kevin Street A more casual counterpoint to its older sister Fish Shop, Bar Pez joine

What’s the lowdown on Lulu’s? We should have believed them when they said they’re “not a restaurant”. We’d taken it in the sense that it's more trattoria as the storefront announces, but on our first Friday visit there’s very little food at all - just pizzette. It was aperitivo hour’s €2 cicchetti more than wine that lured us to Lulu’s, but no harm. A glass in hand, the world passing by a people-watching perch up front -we enjoy the atmosphere and plot a return.

With markups soaring across the city as restaurants struggle to close the ever-growing viability gap, we’ve noticed time and again fewer...

It feels like not a day goes by lately without another Dublin café announcing a pivot to small plates and wine by night, and as much as...