DUBLIN - Ireland 2014 - page 154

The Farm, Dublin's healthiest dining option, shuns processed food and features fresh,
organic, and free-range fare that's affordable and pretty darn tasty (€15-25 main courses,
€22 two-course and €25 three-course early-bird specials before 19:00, daily 11:00-22:00,
a half-block south of Trinity College at 3 Dawson Street, tel. [phone]).
O'Neill's Pub is a venerable, dark, and tangled retreat offering good grub, including
dependable €12-15 carvery lunches. It's very central, located across from the main TI
(daily 12:00-22:00, Suffolk Street, tel. [phone]).
Avoca Café is a good-value eatery, with simple yet satisfying meals. It's on the second
floor of Avoca department store (€9-17 lunches, Mon-Sat 9:30-17:30, Sun 11:00-17:30, a
half-block from the TI at 11-13 Suffolk Street, tel. [phone]).
Two pubs on Duke Street— The Duke and Davy Burns —serve reliable pub lunches.
(ThenearbyCathachRareBooksshop,at10DukeStreet,displaysarareeditionof Ulysses
inscribed by Joyce, among other treasures, in its window.)
Bewley's Café is an old-time favorite, offering light meals from €10 and full meals for
€12-17.SitonthegroundflooramongArtDecolampsandwindowsbystained-glass artist
Harry Clarke, or head upstairs to the bright atrium decorated by art students (self-service
Mon-Sat 8:00-22:00, Sun 9:00-22:00, 78 Grafton Street, tel. [phone]). For a taste of
witty Irish lunch theater, check out Bewley's Café Theatre upstairs; you can catch a fun
hour-long performance while having a lunch of soup and brown bread for €8-16 (Mon-
Sat at 13:00 during a play's run—doors open at 12:45, closed Sun, booking info mobile
086-878-4001, www.bewleyscafetheatre.com ) .
Wagamama Noodle Bar, like its popular sisters in Britain, is a pan-Asian slurp-a-thon
with great and healthy noodle and rice dishes (€12-17) served at long communal tables by
energetic waiters (daily 12:00-23:00, often a line but it moves quickly, South King Street
underneath St. Stephen's Green Shopping Centre, tel. [phone]).
Yamamori is a plain, mellow, and modern Japanese place serving seas of sushi and
noodles (€10-15 lunches daily 12:00-17:30, €16-20 dinners nightly 17:30-23:00, 71 South
Great George's Street, tel. [phone]).
Supermarkets: Dunnes, on South Great George's Street, is your one-stop shop for as-
sembling a picnic meal (Mon-Sat 8:30-19:00, Thu-Fri until 20:00, Sun11:00-19:00, across
from Yamamori). They have another outlet in the basement of St. Stephen's Green Shop-
ping Centre. Marks & Spencer department store has a fancy grocery store in the base-
ment, with fine takeaway sandwiches and salads (Mon-Fri 9:00-20:00, Thu until 21:00,
Sat 8:30-20:00, Sun 11:00-19:00, Grafton Street).
Hip and Fun in North Dublin
(See “Dublin Restaurants” map, here .)