specialist food drink dublin 4

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...