With everything quite expensive in Dublin, I really enjoyed tasting the traditional Irish breakfast in Kylemore Cafe in Stephen's Green shopping center for a very reasonable price and in a calm and lovely place and setting. It was a very memorable and enjoyable experience for me.
3 formulas all under €10
Indeed, Kylemore Cafe offers 3 formulas for Irish breakfast from 4 items to 10 items. A 4 items breakfast, which I took, is only €4.95, 6 items breakfast is €6.95 and 10 items breakfast is €8.95, so for less than €10 you can actually taste it all, and coffee/tea or hot chocolate is included in the formula ! But what surprised me about those prices is that, if it was a small cafe hidden away from the city centre, then I would understand why it is so cheap and honestly I would not mind paying a bit more just to enjoy a complete Irish breakfast while enjoying the city, but it is not the case for Kylemore Cafe !
The plus: A Great view
Indeed, Kylemore Cafe is right in the city centre, on the first floor of Stephen's Green shopping centre, it has a huge picture window that gives a top view on Grafton Street (one of the most busy streets of Dublin) and on Stephen's Green park, so you can easily sit by the window and enjoy your Irish breakfast while admiring the park or watching people walking by (without them looking at you!), which is a very pleasant experience especially when the sun is shining and you need some relaxing time. So really, not like any other cafe, Kylemore Cafe offers not only great prices but also a great view and a very pleasant setting to enjoy a breakfast. While I was there having my breakfast, I actually had the impression of being in one of those big hotels that you see in the movies, because 1/ there are many tourists there and 2/ the view is great 3/ their furniture is very comfortable and everything is very clean.
All day breakfast
Also, you can order those formulas all day so you don't even need to pressure yourself to wake up early in the morning to taste the Irish breakfast if you had a busy night the day before. So it is really handy for people on holiday because then they can enjoy the breakfast for what it is but at the same time they can discover what makes it Irish without making it necessarily a "must see" attraction on their list.
Regarding the food, it was very satisfying, I took the 4 items breakfast and I have to say that it was quite enough for a breakfast, it tasted very nice, you order the food downstairs while they are still cooking it so it's hot when they serve you, and then you take it yourself to your table.
Pleasant ambience
And you can stay there as long as you want, they don't pressure you to leave the place when you are finished so you can stay there to discuss or to admire the view, I think it adds kind of a romantic ambience to the place. I went there on a Sunday morning so it was pretty calm, but I believe that even during the day you can easily find a seat because it is a very spacious place where you don't feel oppressed at all.
Award wining cafe .....!
Also Kylemore Cafe is under the Foodlife brand of catering restaurants which won the Hotel and Catering Award for best cafe restaurant and coffee house in Ireland in 2005, so you can say that you were in an "award winning cafe" (whatever that means it's still fun to say) !!
To sump up
So, great quality/price ratio, beautiful scenery, I highly recommend this place for people who want to taste the Irish breakfast because the place is just the perfect place where you want to have a breakfast. I would also recommend to go to this place towards the end of your stay in Dublin if you are a visitor, because then you can calmly enjoy your breakfast and then enjoy the joys of shopping in Grafton Street or in the shopping center or rest in the park.
See the pictures attached of the breakfast I took, the different formulas, and the top view on the park. read more