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The main thing about the Porterhouse (on Parliament St, there are other ones in Phibsborough and Nassau St) is that the beer is good but the place is bad.  The oyster stout is delicious, but the bar is crowded and overpriced and lacking in any real character.  The Braon Blasta is very strong and tasty (and, incidentally, very cleverly named – An Braon Blásta means “the tasty drop” in ...

There are quite a few charity shops around Dublin.  They seem to congregate in little clumps about the city.  There’s a string of them in Ranelagh, a brace or two on Thomas St, a cluster in Rathmines, and a troop of them on Capel St. Irish charity shops are not particularly impressive compared to American thrift stores and there is a strong possibility that if you are visiting the ...

It is surprisingly difficult to find a good example of the great Irish breakfast in this city.  There are any number of places selling them for extortionate prices, but few enough where you can get a good feed - of rashers, eggs, sausages, pudding, maybe a grilled tomato, possibly a few mushrooms - and not feel a tiny bit ripped off.  This isn't so much of a problem for the ...

It is usually a pleasure to entertain foreign visitors and friendly Americans can be great guests, appreciative of the stuff we want to show them and positively enthusiastic about the stuff we'd forgotten about. You can learn as much about your city from visitors as they can from you, sometimes.

But all this mutual lovey-doveyness and hands-across-the water carry-on is only really attainable when there is a certain amount of ...

Dublin is renowned as a city of poets. It's said that you can't walk down Grafton St without some high-minded disciple of the Muses flinging some garbled bit of Patrick Kavanagh in your face and then looking for the price of a pint for his trouble. This reputation is partly justified. There are vanloads of poets in this town and all too eager to entertain the susceptible ...

Don't go to FitzSimons, even ironically, even in jest. Yes, it's perfectly central in the foul wheezing heart of Temple Bar, yes it has one of the few open-air drinking areas in that part of the city, yes it's bleedin' enormous, but your dignity and the dignity of your friends is worth more than that.

I'm from Dublin and naturally resentful of the filthy tourist traps that infest the cultural ...

If you are looking for good value vegetarian food in Dublin, forget it. If, however, you are looking for really good vegetarian food that is only marginally overpriced, then Cornucopia on Wicklow St, just off Grafton St, is the best place to go. To be honest, your only real alternative is Govinda's, which I don't really like because it employs Hare Krishnas and it defintely implies that fried cheese ...

Some consider Peter's Pub the second best pub on Sth William St, and while that may not sound like much of a boast, the curious drinking tourist should bear in mind that the competition is Grogan's (see the posting on Grogan's). In fact, Peter's Pub is as unique in its own way and as full of character as Grogan's, if a little bit less ostentatious about the fact.

Peter's ...

This is my first ever blog posting and I'm feeling kind of ambivalent about writing about my favourite pub, so you have to promise that if you are reading this and if you visit the place, you don't let me down and disgrace me in front of the regulars. OK?

The pub is called Grogan's and it's on South William St in the middle of Dublin, sort of parallel to Grafton ...

Known more commonly as "Coppers," this long time running club (over ten years) is nothing short of an institution. Sitauted in the Jackson court Hotel, This dingy, but lovable club is open late seven nights a week with d.j.s playing mainly chart music with some classic 80's and cock rock thrown in for good measure. Monday night seems to be the best night to go here, with student nurses, guards and teachers ...