specialist food drink dublin

This splendidly altruistic organisation has been vital in introducing the concept of a farmers' market - or at least a Dublin version of it - to Saturday morning shoppers, and it has gone some way to filing the enormous gap which exists in the capital city for a true market where one can buy the produce from the people who actually grow it. Organic and bio-dynamic growers line up and sell alongside the cost-cut dried goods and the agit-prop leaflets. The organisers do like it if you are prep...

A scion of the family who have powered Magill's delicatessen in the centre of the city for many years, Kim Condon's own shop has a panache and persuasiveness which is entirely the property of the lady herself....

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Danny O'Toole sources his free-range pork from as far away as Cork, which tells you just what you need to know about the concern for quality which drive this fine butcher. He is the only specialist in organic meat in Dublin, usually sourcing directly from farmers in the counties surrounding Dublin. Everything he does is good: the puddings, the burgers, the bangers. He has the thoughtfulness of an artisan himself, always eager to move forward, always eager to learn and to experiment....

They souped-up the style of Redmond's a while back, turning it into a garishly lit, modernist palace of grub and plonk. Some may miss the passing of the former fine old shop and wine merchant, with its old shop and wine merchant, with its agreeably archaic style, but what has not changed is the fact that this remains one of the very best independent off-licences in Dublin. Their range is imaginative and extensive, and good value, and there are frequently good bargains to be found in bin ends...

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...

They have a fine eye for a bargain in Verling's. Just about every time you go through the door of the shop, alongside the excellent range of fine wines there are likely to be a couple of new arrivals, snapped up by Jim or Julie, which offer knock-out value. They also run wine appreciation courses, held upstairs, and it's the kind of shop where there is always an opened bottle, waiting to be sampled, a signal of their friendly, down-to-earth, unpretentious approach to the world of wine....

One of the best shops in Dublin, a devoted home for true, artisan Italian foods and unmissable for the best parmesan and olive oils in the city....

Good dried pastas, olive oils and their own salad dressings are just a few of the specialities in this busy little trove dedicated to Italian foods....