The culinary deities have been kind to the denizens of Dublin 8, as there is a delightful café called Bibi’s in the neighbourhood, which serves breakfast and lunch on weekdays and brunch at the weekend.
Category Archives: Dublin
♥ Coffee in Dublin//Three: Bibi’s Cafe
Filed under Coffee, Dublin, Food/Wine, Restaurants/Cafés
♥ James Joyce: Ulysses & Lemon Soap
One of the book clubs that I am a member of has as the current book choice James Joyce’s Ulysses. Deep breath. Neill Smith says on the BBC’s website “the book has fascinated scholars and baffled readers for decades with its dense prose, obscure puns and allusions to the characters and events of Homer’s epic Greek poem The Odyssey.” Deeper breath.
♥ Coffee in Dublin//Two: The Merrion Hotel
Walk for a couple of hundred yards in central Dublin and you will inevitability pass a couple of cafés. The quality and the price of the cup of coffee on offer will be variable. In almost all cases you will have to linger as you wait patiently for your turn for service and hope that there will be a table free by the time your reach the head of the queue.
♥ Favourite Shops//Formality
Formality is a small but very perfectly formed garden shop. Owned and run by Patrick and Karl it’s in Glasthule a South Dublin suburb. Karl is less often seen in the shop as he is Formality’s garden design guru and is frequently out and about on appointments.
Filed under Dublin, Interiors, Shops/Shopping
♥ Super shimmery
Walking down Dublin’s Wexford Street recently, I stopped to go into Djinn a jewellery shop. Dangerous. I know from experience that the only fail-safe way not to spend money in a shop is not to enter it in the first place.
Filed under Craft, Dublin, Jewellery, Shops/Shopping
♥ Knitwear: Lainey Keogh
Ireland has no honours system, no lords,dames, sirs or chevaliers. Being on an Irish stamp is as good as it gets. In 2010 An Post (the Irish postal service) issued a set of stamps honouring six contemporary Irish designers. Lainey Keogh was one of them. (the others were: Philip Treacy, John Rocha, Orla Keily, Paul Costelloe and Louise Kennedy.)
♥ Mother’s Day
Early tomorrow morning children will be beavering away in kitchens preparing breakfast-in-bed for their beloved Mamas. Culinary concoctions made with love and care will be placed on trays along with steaming pots of tea or cups of coffee. Perhaps a home-made card showing off nascent artistic talents will be presented with the breakfast tray.
Filed under Celebrations, Dublin, Restaurants/Cafés
♥ Cute
Arrgh! I had a mass of stuff to do today and one hour less to do it in, as the clocks went forward at 2 a.m. this morning. Does loosing one hour from the day leave you feeling slightly jet-lagged?
♥ Noteworthy
I have a bad stationery habit and I am particularly addicted to buying notebooks. When I see ones I like, I usually snaffle them up. In fairness, I use them, either scribbling or sketching (very badly) on the blank pages, or giving them away as gifts.
Filed under Dublin, Shops/Shopping, Sustainable/Green
♥ Coffee in Dublin//One: The Cake Cafe
The Cake Cafe, in the eco-friendly Daintree building, is slightly off the beaten track. First find the Daintree paper shop on Camden Street, walk through the shop and exit by the rear door into a bamboo fringed alleyway, when you emerge you will see The Cake Café.
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Just Add Attitude 