Hubby organised babysitters and brought me up to Dublin for a foodie adventure for my birthday. Rather than going on a pub crawl we went on a cafe/restaurant crawl! It was a late Sunday morning and a really enjoyable way to explore Dublin's best foodie spots.
After parking the car we found a quirky little coffee and pastry bar called
SASHI HOUSE PETITE . The have a selection of different coffee beans and will give you guidance to which one you'd like best. I went for the Brazilian coffee bean in a cappuccino. It made sense as hubby is Brazilian/Japanese! What coffee are you?!
Next we popped into a restaurant called
SUPER MISS SUE. We'd read good reviews about this place and I noticed that they had the weekend papers for customers to read (this is a big treat for me as with two little ones reading the paper is a real challenge these days!).
We ordered a glass of prosecco and a dish to share from the brunch menu "Marinated Salmon, watercress & wasabi mayo, mini brown shrimp omelette, bonito crumb". I loved the fusion element of this dish. The Japanese bonito flakes mixed with breadcrumbs worked really well as a topping.
The streets off Grafton Street are full of shops with character. We loved this chocolate boutique called
COCOA ATELIER. Ketty from
FRENCH FOODIE IN DUBLIN wrote a detailed review about this place, definitely worth a read and a visit if you want to treat yourself or someone special.
As we were passing the
ASIA MARKET I had to pop in to say hello and pick up a few things.
They stock unusual vegetables that are used in Japanese cooking. I usually replace with local root vegetables but every now and then it's nice to use these for my cooking (Japanese mushrooms, renkon (lotus root), gobo (burdock root).
We stumbled across the
INDUSTRY home and lifestyle store which I read about on twitter a few times. I love their household items and now they have a cute little coffee shop inside.
It was time to eat again and we spotted organic pulled pork in
COPPINGER ROW.
This dish was a nice twist on a traditional Irish breakfast, we loved it and would recommend it.
By pure coincidence we noticed that they their cocktail of the month was "TURNING JAPANESE"!
We couldn't leave Dublin without browsing through some bookstores. In Japan they call this YOMITACHI, literally translates as reading and standing. It's used when people spend hours reading books and magazines on display!
Unfortunately, it was time to go home so we grabbed a take away juice in
ALCHEMY JUICE CO.....
and a sushi bento in
KOKORO SUSHI BENTO.
What a day and a really enjoyable way to spend my birthday. You should try a foodie crawl around Dublin. Fiona x
