5 things we want to eat in Dublin this week

Tis the season to be spending all your cash on lobster, but there's also ceviche if you're strapped for euros, and we're blaming the storm on our gnocchi craving. Here's the five things we can't stop thinking about eating in Dublin this week...

1) Dexter Beef Dadolata, Volpe Nera

This is basically a Volpe Nera fan site, and can you blame us with plates like Dexter beef dadolata, pickled shemiji mushrooms and crisp pink potato on their lunch menu. Dadolata is a term that usually refers to diced vegetables, but they're clearly using it to tart up a tartare, and we're not mad about it. Find it in the starters section of their three courses for €38 menu - which is a mega deal if you ask us.

2) Blue lobster and baked rice, Note

It's lobster season, and that season's a short one, so get eating while you still can, and we're not sure you'll do better this week than Note's blue lobster with baked rice and coral sabayon - how fancy. At €75 for two this ain't a cheap crustacean, but it's not the King of them for nothing.

3) Vanilla whip and lime topped blueberry loaf, Bread 41

After months of conjecture (and even denial by the team at one point) Bread 41 have just opened their fourth site in Cabinteely, part of an objective to open three new bakeries a year for the next three years! This new blueberry loaf topped with vanilla whip, olive oil and lime zest might be available in all locations, but what a perfect opening gambit to show locals what they're all about.

4) Ceviche and Bloody Marys, Table 45

Table 45 are bring bone fide Chilean vibes to the city centre, and can we think of a better weekend combo than ceviche and Bloody Marys? No we cannot.

5) Wild mushroom gnocchi, La Maison

We're blaming Storm Floris for our otherwise unexplainable craving for creamy mushroom gnocchi on this humid week (those storm winds do strange things to you). La Maison serve their hand-rolled potato pillows in a cep cream with wild mushrooms, spinach, and aged Parmesan, and we'd eat this any season.