Dublin: recommended spots
Dublin: recommended spots
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A list of recommended spots of Dublin city (eat, drink, sleep)
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Where to sleep
Hostels
Jacobs Inn Dublin
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Abigails Hostel
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Abbey Court Hostel
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Ashfield Hostel
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Generator Dublin
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Hotels
Point A Dublin, Parnell Street
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The Fleet Hotel Temple Bar
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REZz Dublin
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Temple Bar Inn
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Leonardo Hotel Dublin Christchurch - Formerly Jurys Inn
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The College Green Hotel Dublin, Autograph Collection
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Apartments & Aparthotels
Staycity Aparthotels, Dublin, City Centre
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Harbour Square House
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Where to eat
First of all, you can eat in almost any pub in Dublin.
Almost all of them have kitchen and make excellent dishes, such as burgers, soups of the day, hot wings, the stew, etc...
Here is my recommendation of ideal places to eat based on what you want to eat.
Breakfast/Brunch
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Tang (Abbey Street)
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With 2 spots around the city (the other one is in Dawson Street) they make tasty classic dishes revisited.
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O'Neills Pub & Kitchen
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Try the full irish, this pub is known for its breakfast.
And at night, if you are in the area, stop for a pint and go trough its stairs and cozy rooms.
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Starbucks Howth
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Yes, it is a Starbucks, but is in a very quiet area, so if you are around stop here for breakfast.
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Joy of Chá
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If you want an alternative breakfast come here for a tea and a good selection of sweet and salty food.
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Restaurants
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Gallaghers Boxty House
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Elephant & Castle
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The Church Café, Late Bar & Restaurant
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A restaurant in an old church, gourmet Irish food and magical atmosphere.
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Pub food
Porterhouse Temple Bar
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My advice is to sit at the counter and eat there, but not at the counter on the ground floor as soon as you enter.
When you enter the pub go straight and after the counter turn right, then right again, take a few steps and there you will find yourself stools to sit on the top of the counter, and believe me, that place to sit and eat something is perfect.
Try their soup of the day or their dpicy chicken wings.
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Quays
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Not only Guinness.
Try a Smithwick or a Kilkenny, or one of the cider they have on tap.
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Fast food
Gourmet Burger Kitchen (GBK)
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Leo Burdock Christchurch
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Known as the best fish & chips in town, the Leo Burdock shop in Christchurch has welcomed a lot of famous people. You will find their pictures on a wall in the place or you can get more infos on the website.
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Bunsen Temple Bar
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With 3 spots around the city center (this one in Telple Bar, one in Dame Street and one in Grafton Street) they make really good quality burgers.
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Seafood
The Brass Monkey Restaurant and Wine Bar
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A few years ago this place burnt and was closed for a couple of years, but they rebuilt it and now is open and ready to serve you the best seafood.
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Octopussy's Seafood Tapas
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Crabby Jo's Wrights öf Howth
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Aqua Restaurant
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Where to drink
The pubs in Ireland are very beautiful.
Each pub has different features, they may be made of wood or stone or have carpeting on the floor, be full of mirrors or full of stuff hanging from the ceiling and walls.
Since you cannot smoke inside the premises, and you cannot leave the premises with beer in your hand, there is often a beer garden, which is an outdoor space inside the pub where you can safely go outside with your beer for some fresh air or to smoke a cigarette.
Many pubs have live music every day, some only on weekends, and a few don't have live music.
Normally when you order a beer it is normal that it is a pint. So be aware that if you walk into the pub and say "Can I have two Guinness please?" you'll get two pints; to get a smaller beer you have to specify "half" or "half pint."
For example, if you want a regular and a half pint you will say, "Hello, can I have one Guinness and one half Guinness please?"
Here is a list of pubs (and a couple of speakeasy) you absolutely must go to.
Pubs
Doyle's
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For me it is a tradition, my first pint of beer in every trip to Ireland I have to drink it here.
The pub is very nice and typical and if you come on friday or saturday night is very crowded.
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O'Donoghues Bar
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Very old and typical pub, if you are lucky someone will be singing and playing live in the beer garden, so take a pint of Guinness, light your tobacco pipe and sit down outside to enjoy the irish life
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O'Neills Pub & Kitchen
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Try the full irish, this pub is known for its breakfast.
And at night, if you are in the area, stop for a pint and go trough its stairs and cozy rooms.
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The Cobblestone
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It is perfect for a couple of drinks if you don't want to go in the too much crowded city center.
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The Brazen Head
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It is the oldest pub in Dublin, but not the oldest in Ireland.
Do you want to know which one is the oldest?
It is the Sean's Bar in Athlone, a town in the very center of Ireland.
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The Palace Bar
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Buskers Bar
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Hard Rock Cafe
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The Auld Dubliner
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The Old Storehouse Bar and Restaurant
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Everyday live music, and once I also saw a session of an irish dance made by a pretty girl.
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Quays
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Not only Guinness.
Try a Smithwick or a Kilkenny, or one of the cider they have on tap.
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The Temple Bar Pub
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It is almost always very crowded, especially during the weekend, but if you go during the day you'll find less people and maybe you will also be able to take a sit.
If the main counter is full, try one of the others.
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The Norseman
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Fitzsimons Temple Bar
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It has a nice rooftop terrace with a bar counter on it.
And in the weekend nights one of its floor become a nightclub with DJ music.
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Porterhouse Temple Bar
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My advice is to sit at the counter and eat there, but not at the counter on the ground floor as soon as you enter.
When you enter the pub go straight and after the counter turn right, then right again, take a few steps and there you will find yourself stools to sit on the top of the counter, and believe me, that place to sit and eat something is perfect.
Try their soup of the day or their dpicy chicken wings.
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The Bankers Bar
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The Stags Head
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The Long Hall
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Kehoes Pub
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Wrights Findlater Howth
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O'Connells Pub & Restaurant
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McNeills of Howth (The Tophouse)
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Very beautiful, with old maps on the wall and a nice beer garden
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BrewDog Outpost Dublin
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Speakeasy
The Blind Pig Speakeasy
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Vintage Cocktail Club
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Federico Bona
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“You’ll never know how beautiful is to travel alone until you do it!”
Yes, it’s true. There is some kind of magic about travelling alone, you have nobody with you to talk with, you are alone with yourself, with your mind and with your heart. You can feel the the freedom in everysingle thing you find on your journey, in the blowing wind that uncomb your hair, in the music coming out from a crowded pub or in the noisy main street traffic of a big city, in the silence of an empty train station of a countryside small village or in the sound of the ocean while walking on a coast path with only the seagulls over your head.
When I travel I like to feel the nature and the true spirit of a place, I like to walk, to see the little streets of a town, to get into a pub and have a beer or stop for a coffee, to see every unknown corner of that place, and most of all to see places that make me feel in connection with God. From the cliffs on the ocean to the top of a hill, from the last floor of a skyscraper to an old boat moored on a river.
I also like to eat and drink, I often want to try the local dishes in the day and, as for now I work as a prfessional barman, sometimes to go for a cocktail tour in the night.
My favorite destinations are the main cities of the Country I'm visiting and the small villages near the ocean!
I live in Tambre, a small village in the venetian Alps. I traveled a lot in Ireland and UK, but also in northern France, Lithuania, Dubai and around Italy.
I speak Italian and conversational in English.
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