specialist food drink dublin

The plenitude of traiteurs such as the Queens has become so extensive in recent years that you might think nobody cooks anymoe in this neck of the woods. But when the foods are as good as they can be here, why bother?...

Wine Shop. Their annual Wine festival in November is one of the big events of the Dublin wine year, but anyone with even half an interest in the grape should really join the wine club....

Bia Bien Shop is principally a traiteur, offering a fine range of cooked foods for the work-hassled bourgeoisie of south county Dublin, though she also sells the excellent oils of Olvi, Clive McCabe's teas and coffees, Torc truffles and Janet Drew's jams and relishes....

They set up the template of tastes in the Bretzel many years ago, and the gooey pizzas, the crumbly croissants, the chompish chocolates, the kiddy-cute gingerbread men, the onion bagels, are the same as they have always been, sweetly nostalgic, tried and trusted tastes....

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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 great ship Caviston sails ever onwards, its brilliant strengths as reverberant and resplendent as ever. The great fish and shellfish counter is here, with the brothers eager to supply you with not merely the wet fish, but with their own recipes as to how you should cook the fishy dishy of your choice. There is the fine cheese counter, there are great oils and savouries, excellent sarnies for lunch, good cooked meats, in fact just about everything your heart could desire. For special oc...

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....