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Wine Shop....

Fish Shop....

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....

The Universal is invaluable for ethnic cooks an for ethnic cooking, whether the cuisine of your dreams is African or Asian, and its slap-dash, higgledy-piggledy arrangement is truly echt, transporting you happily back in time, to those backpacking days in Lahore or Peshawar. If you can't get it anywhere else, they most likely will have it somewhere in here....

Design fetishists adore the beautiful, 1960s style of Morton's shop front, whilst food lovers appreciate it as one of the most selective, personable, places to shop. Its gentle, almost distracted atmosphere, its human scale and helpful service, the obvious care which goes into selecting what they sell, all make it a refreshing, calming, quite inimitable shop....

All the ingredients you enjoy discovering in the Ayumi-ya restaurants can be bought in their shop, open in the evenings and Saturday afternoon....

Despite the run-down nature of this area, the fans of Little Italy have been making pilgrimages to stock up with all things Italian - arborio, big bottles of Bove, dried porcini, Lavazza coffee - as the shop has hopped to different locations in and around Smithfield....

This rather old-fashioned shop is a great address for fresh fish and shellfish, and especially for game in season, which is one of their specialities. There is a second branch of the shop at the southern end of Donnybrook....

Fothergill's is one of the great Dublin delis, with a smashing range of handmade foods. The goodies range from the brilliant lunchtime sandwiches, the carefully composed salads, the excellent cooked meats and plump cheeses, right through to the knockout cakes and desserts which local matrons - shame on you, girls - often have the gall to pass off as their own. A terrific shop, where retaining self-control is almost impossible....

Thomas' Delicatessen has a very keen appreciation of his customers' demands, a fact which has firmly established the importance of Thomas's deli in the area. Lots of choice things, good wines, and friendly, helpful advice....