Came here hopping to get some ingredients with a mate, and didn't find all we needed…read more Not a larger selection as promised, but overall a great place to buy some good food. All the vendors are super friendly and love to make conversation! Great way to spend a morning! The ambiance is very quaint and friendly! Overall a great atmosphere and way to buy. Will come here for certain vegetables and lunch when I'm in the city

Thank you for the recommendation, Fodor's! (yes, I bought their travel guide like a true tourist.)…read more My friends and I wanted to try some Ireland oysters because we heard they were supposedly super fresh. We were running out of time on our hunt to find them when I realized, 'I've got my trusty guidebook!!' And that's how we ended up here. It was 12 Euros for 6 oysters and a glass of wine. Since there were four of us, the lady was nice enough to give us 4 cups of wine (yes, plastic cups - it's a farmer's market, what do you expect!) They even threw in an extra oyster! SO FRESH! SO BIG! (cue that's-what-she-said joke). Compared to NYC oysters, these babies looked like they were on steroids! They also have this dipping sauce (had onions and was really vinegar-y, but good. But if you don't like the sour, you should just take the oyster straight.) Didn't eat anything else from other stands because we just had lunch. However, I believe they had shish kebabs, crepes, and bread. Oh and FYI - Sheridans Cheesemongers was there (saw this place on Anthony Bourdain when he went to Dublin so thought this might be worth mentioning). Definitely check out this farmer's market!

My dad's friend married a Polish woman named Renata and every year she carried out the same ritual…read more She would bring tons of toilet roll back to her family in Poland, apparently Polish toilet roll is like sand paper, and she'd sneak back authentic Polish kelbasa for us. I don't know why, but for some reason I was afraid that the products in Polonez would be on the bit more expensive side, maybe because it's specialty? On the contrary I was excited to find out that I could get that kielbasa, and other kinds of sausage, for only a few euro. If you've ever had it you know that is nothing to pay for some yummy sausage. The other thing that sets Polonez apart is that it's much bigger, and has a greater variety than most other Polish shops I've seen around Dublin!

Polonez is a Polish supermarket stocked with every staple Eastern European staple ingredient you…read morecan imagine. There's jars of beetroot, sauerkraut, pickeled onions, and gherkins. The fridges are packed with tubs of sour cream, unusual cheeses, and sausages of every shape and size. The products listed above are the ones recognised by this humble, uneducated-in-the-culinary-ways-of-the-Polish reviewer, but there were many other tins, packets, tubs and jars of foodstuffs that I had never laid eyes on before. I can imagine this place is heaven for Rathmines's Polish community, much like the shops in Australia that stock Tayto and Barry's teabags that the Irish go bananas for.

Golden, wavy, thin or thick, Every chip's a tasty trick…read more From the first to the very last, Potato chips--gone so fast! I don't usually eat potato chips, or crisps as they're referred to here. But I'm on vacation and on vacation, you eat special stuff. Today, it's a bag of Keogh's Crinkle Cut "Atlantic Sea Salt and Balsamic Vinegar hand cooked potato crisps from our Family Farm." Wow, these are awesome. Yes, the bag says "Deep ridges for extra flavour" and they're not kidding. Crispy chips, most of which were still quite large. Great flavor and you can absolutely taste the balsamic in there. Down to the last crumb, these were great. I would absolutely eat this again for sure! [Review 1924 of 2024 - 106 in Republic of Ireland - 22946 overall]

I don't know where to start with Fothergills. We were fortunate to stay in one of the apartment…read morerooms above the cafe and were welcomed to a complimentary coffee and pastry for breakfast during our stay. The cafe is super cute; one side is more of a restaurant scene with tables, menu, and waitresses and waiters on hand. The other side is more of grabbing something quick to eat and/or drink. I've tried the raspberry muffin. It was so fresh and good words cannot even describe it. I'm more of a blueberry muffin person but being that was not an option at the time I chose raspberry and I did not regret it. My fiancé and I also tried the Irish breakfast (I posted a pic and noted what it consisted of). So awesome! A hearty breakfast was a great way to start a day of exploring in Dublin. The next day, I tried the croissant and scone. They pretty much melted in my mouth. As you walk in the cafe, you could smell how fresh everything was. Anyway, we had planned to drive to the Cliffs of Moher that day and decided to get a couple of sandwiches and saw they had a variety of choices to choose from. I ended up creating my own sandwich; it was super delicious! Even when we ate it hours later, it was still good. We tried the Irish cheese and onion chips and it blew my mind. It's similar to the sour cream and onion here in the states but a hundred times better. I found myself looking for more onion and cheese chips during my stay in Ireland. The cafe started open later than other cafes I'm used to but we never made it back in time. With good prices and great food we probably would have eaten breakfast, lunch, and dinner there. I would definitely visit this place again if I ever get the opportunity to return to Dublin. It made our visit a truly remarkable one.

Awah common... I'm on a diet!!! It's just not right that this sort of place exists; I have just put…read moreon 3 pounds just reviewing the photos I took! Yes, this is the enemy of the short fat and balding male rapidly reaching middle age, it is Fothergills, a shop filled with everything from a frankly obscene selection of the most appetising pastries known to man - including those squares of short bread covered with caramel and topped with chocolate.... Excuse me... I need a moment alone... Ahem... cakes... they do cakes as well and jam - I took pictures of the jam shelf, just to show you they take this sort of thing seriously... and quite right too.

An apple a day keeps the dentist at bay.... I just wonder how many you'd need to eat after a trip…read morein here.... Desperately in need of a sugar injection, with barely enough energy to schlep (yes I did just say schelp) myself around town, my eye got drawn to a giant multi-coloured cross erected on a hot pink wall, with a pink haired, green trouser-ed, blue bowtied looking scientist staring out the window. Oh yes, just the kinda pharmacy I was looking for. It's all in here folks. Fizzing candy, Reese's everything, chocolate covered pretzels, Hersheys kisses and hugs, Pop tarts, and anything else that is guaranteed to make your teeth hurt. As well as the pre-packaged stuff, they also have about 148 boxes of various sweets that you can mix n match, stick in a bottle, and chose your very own special label for. The price range from €3 for 100ml to €9 for 500ml. (Choose the size at your peril...!) As if this wasn't enough to ensure a trip to Dr Molar, you may also gorge further on milkshakes, ice cream floats and sundaes. And round it off with a nice cold carbonated drink, sure ye may as well. Candy Lab - a fizzy candy-coated extravaganza of sugar. Do. It.

My friends and I recently went here at the suggestion of a coworker who said they sold the American…read morestyled pretzels covered in chocolate. When we got here, the friend who wanted the pretzels was out-shined in her giddiness by the rapturous exuberance of our other friend and me. When we saw all the American goods (Reese's, Hersheys, pancake mix, cake mix, peanut butter) we basically had a fit and went wild buying everything (okay, only I did). Overall, I'd recommend any American stop by this place for some staple American ingredients and a bit of nostalgia. They basically have any candy you remember from childhood plus the comfort foods mom always made. The staff person behind the counter was very chatty and friendly, asking me where I was from, but I may have been the rude one since I just wanted my stuff and didn't want to talk. The one downside, which is expected, is the price. I spent about 30 euros on 4 boxes of mac n' cheese and a couple bags of chocolate, but since it's imported it makes sense.

John & Yoko held their now infamous bed in's in 1969 and the same sense of voyeurism that the…read morejournalists assumed they would be experiencing has been recreated on Henry Street in the form of a pop up donut shop called Aungier Danger. You see the journalists thought they were going to get something dirty, taboo and filthy upon attending the bed in's and were extremely let down by the hype. Much could be mirrored here in the Henry street window of Arnotts. You see dirty donuts, of all kinds of fillings, chocolate, one had cottage cheese in it and there was plain old fashioned jam adorned with sugar. So you expect that for all the visual vivaciousness that there would be something amazing for the €3 price they are charging for the pleasure of taking one of these donuts away and making a mess of yourself in the comfort of your own home. These donuts are nice but I wouldnt go so far as to say they are out of this world nice. I would also find it hard to distinguish them apart from other donuts from other establishments where you could give donuts to everyone for the same price as 1 or 2 donuts here. Hats off to the creators as they seem to have captured the hearts of a few adoring fans judging by the steady stream of human traffic through the doors. I would recommend giving them a go sometime if donuts are your thing. As for me, these Donuts can't buy me love maybe its just been a hard days night but they can get back to where they once belonged.

I've heard a lot about Aungier Danger since they opened on Aungier Street earlier this year. I read…read moreabout the queues, the two per person rule etc so I figured they must be damn fine doughnuts I finally got my hands on some yesterday in their pop-up in Arnotts. There were no queues for the 3euro doughnuts here, just me and three disinterested staff members who were too busy having the lolz to even acknowledge my presence when I went in. I ordered the assaulted caramel and banoffee, paid the assistant and left with my two small brown bags. By the time I got home, the assaulted caramel was firmly attached to the top of the bag meaning I lost most of my topping trying to get it out. Me and my fellow doughnut eater thought they were just alright, nothing amazing. They are also extremely sweet but that could be the doughnuts we chose. Overall give me the Dublin Doughnut Company any day of the week... Or failing that a good old fashioned jam doughnut from Superquinn!

As far as fro yo goes, I have to say Mooch is quite the spot. They always have a natural yogurt and…read morechocolate yogurt but then they throw in a wild card and have a flavor of the month. This month was peanut butter and no one loves peanut butter as much as me! I couldn't resist but to get peanut butter fro yo with peanut butter cups and chocolate syrup. It was like heaven in a paper tub! They have tons of other toppings if you want to stick to a bit healthier fro yo, maybe some strawberries, blueberries, kiwi, dried fruit, granola. If you want to be a bit bold you can have chocolate chip cookies, oreos, smarties, chocolate syrup, caramel syrup, compote, marshmallows and the list goes on. There are enough options to please any type of fro-yo-er!

Right so you can be extremely healthy visiting here for gluten and fat free frozen yogurt but they…read morehave sooo many toppings that you can be extremely unhealthy. Which I was on my most recent visit. They've three FroYo flavours to choose from - original, chocolate or strawberry. I chose the chocolate and for toppings I had Oreo cookies and then melted kinder bueno (a guest topping and OMG amazing!) I forgot to take a photo of all the toppings but there's plenty of naughty treats along with healthy fruit and nuts to choose from. They're also currently selling some items from Roz Purcell's natural born feeder book. So like I say you can be super healthy! :) A brilliant addition to Blanchardstown Centre.

I'm giving it 5 stars just based on the cappuccino!!! Pudding and bangers weren't bad . The tomato…read morewas pretty tasty .

Genius idea this - a grocery store in the airport car park, allowing you to pick up essentials like…read moretea, milk, bread and sausages for the morning after your two-week holiday, as you know that everything in the fridge will be ready to grow legs and walk. Service can be slow as there is a coffee and sandwich bar on the other side of the counter - when I was there, there was one guy trying to serve everyone at once, and let me tell you, he was doing no-one any favours.