What ATF Insiders could win in August! Three overnight breaks, restaurant vouchers and more...

We're ending the summer on a high by giving away nine more great prizes to our paying subscribers, including THREE overnight breaks away, and vouchers to visit some of the best new openings in the city. Everyone signed up to ATF Insiders goes automatically into the draw, you don't have to do anything else to enter.

As an ad and invite-free platform, ATF Insiders is how we're funded, ensuring that recommendations are made without influence, unblemished by invites and free food. Everyone who signs up for ATF Insiders by midnight on Sunday 17th August will be entered into this month's prize draw, and winners will be selected on Tuesday 19th August. This could be your month :)

1) Overnight stay in Aloft Dublin City with breakfast & dinner

One of our lucky Insiders is off to Aloft Dublin City for an overnight staycation, with breakfast and dinner in Tenters, their cosy gastropub. The modern 4-star hotel is in the heart of the Liberties, with some of our favourite restaurants nearby, like Two Pups, Notions, Spitalfields and Bakeology In. With spacious rooms and stunning views, Aloft Dublin City is an ideal bolthole for exploring Dublin's food, culture and history - check them out at www.aloftdublincity.com.

2) An overnight stay and €150 voucher for The Pumphouse, Wicklow

Wicklow has a new go-to for food, just an hour from Dublin on the Kildare border. The Pumphouse, a new family-run contemporary bar & restaurant, opened in Dunlavin last month, an hour’s drive from Dublin and perfect for a food-focused day trip. Surrounded by Wicklow countryside, head chef Gavin McDonagh (ex-Dylan McGrath group, Brioche in Ranelagh), is showing off local ingredients like Hollywood Farmhouse Cheese, Feighcullen Farm free-range chicken, and Dunlavin Honey, in a menu that's been designed for maximum appeal. To celebrate the opening, The Pumphouse has given us a foodie break for two, with a voucher for €150 to spend in the restaurant plus an overnight stay locally that you can enjoy on a date of your choice (subject to availability). Check out The Pumphouse here.

3) Overnight stay with breakfast and cocktails at The Croke Park hotel

The Croke Park hotel has partnered with Penguin Books and the Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI) to create the ideal Dublin stay for bookworms. From Swift to Sally Rooney, Beckett to Binchy, James Joyce to Naoise Dolan, Dublin’s writers have always captured the city’s wit, grit and soul, and the specially curated Penguin bookshelf in the lobby library is stocked with dozens of books for you to dive into. The stay also includes tickets to MoLI, the museum dedicated to Irish literary greats, and the works that shaped Irish culture, and we've got an overnight stay to give away with breakfast, cocktails in The Sideline bar and tickets to MoLI on a day of your choice. Check out The Croke Park's "A chapter in Dublin" breaks here.

4) €100 voucher for Hawker, Rathmines

It might the most anticipated takeaway opening Dublin has ever seen, with Hang Dai Chinese deciding to make their covid-time takeaways a permanent fixture in Rathmines. Our dine in preview of Hawker next week sold out in minutes, and it's fair to say excitement is at fever pitch ahead of their official opening on Wednesday 27th August. To celebrate the opening we've got a €100 voucher to give away to one of you this month so you can have all the prawn toast with yuzu mayo, cheeseburger springrolls and Xinjiang lamb skewers in the comfort of your own home.

5) Two tickets for "Chef Stories" at Roe & Co Distillery

One of the hallmarks of summer in recent years has been Roe & Co's summer food and whiskey experiences, and this year the focus is on some of Ireland's top chefs and their individual stories. JP McMahon (Aniar), Aisling Moore (Goldie), Melissa McCabe (Feast) and Graham Herterich (The Bakery by The Cupcake Bloke) will take over for a weekend, to cook a five course meal designed to spark memories and tell stories. Courses will be paired with Roe & Co Irish Whiskey cocktails, with tickets for food and drink costing €110. We've got two tickets to give away this month to an event of your choice, taking place until the end of September. Check out more here. 

6) €100 voucher for La Strada

The cute little Aungier Street terrazza from Lucio Paduano (ex-Manifesto in Rathmines) is a slice of regional Italia in the middle of the city, and we loved our visit there for mortadella, burrata and pistachio pizza, with a side of buffalo blue cheese mousse and strawberries. La Strada has just gotten their wine licence, so Lucio's renounced taste in Italian wine can once again be showcased. They're halfway through their summer menu, with the Autumn menu starting in October, and this is hyper-seasonal food (expect chestnuts, pumpkin, Jerusalem artichoke, radicchio), with so much imported from Naples. We've got a €100 voucher for La Strada to give away this month so you can plan your own Italian date night.

7) €100 voucher for Dosa Dosa in Rialto

The Dublin 8 food scene is proving unstoppable, with Dosa Dosa the latest addition to the neighbourhood. Their first permanent restaurant has just opened in Rialto (where Daphe's used to be), and it's not just dosas anymore (although we still recommend making a special trip in their honour). As well as a street food menu featuring dosas, uttapam and kathi rolls, there's an extensive new menu with dishes like manga fish curry, apricot lamb rack, and gun powder idly - choosing might be an issue here. We've got a €100 voucher for Dosa Dosa this month, and with their great value prices you'll make a decent dent in the menu.

8) €100 voucher for Akaka Poke

Akaka Poke are turning 8! To celebrate their big birthday they've given us a €100.00 voucher so one of our Insiders can enjoy all the Ahi Tuna, Spicy Salmon and Teriyaki tofu poke bowls for them and anyone else they're kind enough to share their prize with. Find Akaka Poke on Liffey Street in Dublin 1, and Clonskeagh in Dublin 6, or order online or on Deliveroo.

9) A Grow with Aldi hamper and a €100 gift card

ALDI have just announced their 30 finalists for Grow with ALDI 2025, after a nationwide call out for Ireland's best food and drink entrepreneurs. Fifty-four new Irish products will be available in ALDI stores nationwide for two weeks from Thursday September 11th like Garnacha salsas, Sadie's Kitchen bone broth, and The Good Dairy Company's artisan ice-cream. Shoppers will have two weeks to get their fill of the selected products, before ALDI will select the winners to be stocked in store for the rest of the year. To celebrate the Grow with ALDI programme, we've got a hamper packed with Irish products from the finalists to give away, as well as a €100 gift card so you can top up your favourites.

Everyone signed up for ATF Insiders in August (both new and old) will be automatically entered into the prize draw. You don't need to do anything. If you're not signed up yet, join here before midnight on Sunday 17th August. Your support promotes independent reviews and news in Dublin and beyond, and allows you to get answers to any dining questions directly from us.