Now I am the first to say 'Tis a pharmacy, nothing more, nothing less!"... and indeed I have done so very recently (monkstown pharmacy review, singularly uninspired!), but sometimes you wander into a place and you just want to wander around and look, and touch and who cares that we need a bottle of calpol before the childs head falls off.. Oh yeah, I do.
Anyway, Cosgraves is something special, the shop feels clean, neat and modern but one look about the place is enough to banish the word modern from your mind. You are surrounded by shelf after shelf of old ground glass jars and bottles in wooden display cabinets and ornate dividers and piles of old books... joy.
Even if you have no need of drugs or advice or any medical yearnings at all, go in, really, it's lovely! read more