specialist food drink around south city centre

The staff here produce spiced beef, using an original recipe, as well as spiced veal and venison. These can be found in supermarkets and delicatessens in the city. In his shop in Terenure, the relentless imagination and energy is really let loose, and he does a terrific range of smoked foods - pheasant, chicken and lamb amongst others. His puddings and bangers are good, and whenever possible, meat is carefully sourced from organic farmers....

Douglas Food Co shop has always been the swishest and most stylish of the Dublin traiteurs, the one whose cooking is the most personal and innovative. Their list of dishes is, happily, not a compendium of everything that can be cooked, but rather a choice selection which plays to their strengths: braised oxtail with spring vegetables; Thai-spiced chicken stir-fry with noodles; boxty; marinated squid Portuguese. They are happy to discuss menu ideas for parties and gatherings, and the shop a...

The produce for Roy Fox's shop positively tumbles out on to the little side street, just off the main strip of Donnybrook, and the be-decked trays of fruits and vegetables will guide you to a shop full of good things. Inside, there are all the excellent comestibles of the choice deli....

Terroirs is, of course, a wine shop, and it is a very fine one at that, amongst the very best in the country. They do sell a glorious selection of the great wines of the world - Duckhorn, D'Arenberg, Champagne Salon, Avignonesi, Mondavi, Gramp, the great port houses, the finest chateaux of Bordeaux - heavenly, heavenly wines, which the Gilleys understand and appreciate intimately. But what makes Terroirs special is not just the wines. No, the special ingredient lies with everything else they...

Long the best fruit and vegetable shop in town, Fitzpatric's continues to be an invaluable source for organic and bio-dyn foods, as well as essential wholefoods and whatnots....

A true cornucopia of good things, shoe-horned into the smallest space imaginable, the Ow Valley has made itself an indispensable place for exotica - smoked garlic, real Turkish delight, unusual nuts, wild mushrooms - sold alongside the staples and essentials of everyday cooking....

The city centre shop has been revised recently, and now offers a smattering of deli goods alongside the familiar fruit and veg. Here Today is always a good source for the obscure and the essential, and they usually have a good range of organically grown foods....

One of the city's most traditional wine merchants, housed for the last few years in the vaults of Harcourt Street railway station. There is a splendid wine museum tucked away in here, amidst a formidable range of wines from all over the world. They also operate a Cellar Plan, which allows you to select wines from their list and pay for them in monthly instalments....

Excellent oils, hard-to-find pulses and rices from obscure parts of the globe, and a wide range of their own breads and cakes make for a classy deli....