Barnie's
Nassau Street, Dublin
Bewley's Café Bar Deli
Grafton Street
Butler's Chocolate Cafés
Dunne & Crescenzi
South Frederick Street, Dublin 2
Café Java
South Anne Street
Dome Restaurant,
St. Stephen's Green Shopping Centre
Starbucks
Dundrum Shopping Centre
Mini reviews
These are just tasters for what may
come when the full review is posted or, in the case of small
outlets that make no claim to
be a coffeehouse, just an indication of the quality of what's
on offer.
Studio Bar, Top Floor, Arnott's, Henry Street, Dublin
Pretty awful cappuccino (weak, cool)
from what used to be a nice little restaurant. Illy beans are
used so they have no excuse. And then, to top it off, I was
left €10 short in my change (though I noticed, thankfully).
Very unimpressive and not worth a longer review.
Café Paul Rankin, Dundrum Centre
Nice restaurant on the ground floor
of the busy, trendy, shopping centre. Very good Americano (using
Illy beans I think).
Salamanca, St Andrew Street, Dublin 2
Wonderful Spanish tapas restaurant.
Excellent Robt Roberts coffee.
Café Crepe,
Nassau Street, Dublin 2
Nice atmosphere, good clientele,
lots of interaction between the staff. Illy coffee (latte) was
good. Danish (apple) pastry was excellent. Nice place to linger!
(Longer review will follow)
Cineworld, Parnell
Centre, Dublin
We arrived early in the evening
to this cinema complex and the bar/café area was very
quiet. The barman produced a very nice cappuccino using Lavazzo
coffee: foamy, lots of chocolate - perhaps a bit weak for me
but my two companions enthused about it.
Starbucks, Foster Place, Dublin 2
Busy, buzzing, lots of staff, good music
(Sting, ok, matter of taste!) and reasonably good coffee. I
feel that walking into a Starbucks is like walking into a retailer
selling coffee equipment and beans and providing the actual
coffee to drink as an afterthought! Too much product on view
guys!! (Longer review will follow)
