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CafAŠs and restaurants
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Dublin may not be the gastronomic capital of the world, but there's plenty of choice - nearly all of it south of the Liffey - for both lunchtime and evening eating.
CafAŠ society
has reached Dublin in a big way in recent years, providing a new range of chic and trendy locations - in and around Grafton Street and Temple Bar - for all-day eating and drinking, and on Sundays many more places open up for sustaining brunches. At least once, you should experience one of the three
Bewley's
coffee houses: try the table-service section on the second floor of the Grafton Street branch for elegance and potted palms. At lunchtime, Dublin's many
pubs
usually offer the best value: you can usually get soup and sandwiches and often much more substantial, traditional meals. The cheapest
fast-food
outlets - everything from
Pizzaland
and
Wimpy
to cheap Chinese and the ubiquitous kebab houses - are centred around O'Connell Street, but are generally, with one or two exceptions such as
Beshoff Ocean Foods
, pretty missable.
In the evening there's no shortage of
restaurants
either; although on the northside, places where you'll want to spend any time are thin on the ground. The spectrum of cuisines on offer is impressively wide, ranging from Egyptian, Lebanese, Russian and Cajun to the more familiar French, Italian and Chinese. Several restaurants offer
traditional Irish
fare, and there's also a number of good
seafood
places and plenty of
vegetarian
options. The cheaper, livelier restaurants are concentrated around the Temple Bar area, between Dame Street and the Liffey, while more expensive establishments are scattered throughout the city, with a concentration around St Stephen's Green. Other useful information
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