so you're in a restaurant in Dublin and the waiter asks if you want the dessert menu...

[dellzeqq]

Keep away from Temple Bar. That is reserved for hen parties and other silly tourists looking for what they believe to be the real Irish experience!
I can thoroughly recommend Burdocks fish and chips in Werburgh Street, not a restaurant but you will get change from a 10 euro note. I lived just down the road in Bride Road for a while.

ha! We went straight to Temple Bar. As I explained to our guide, a young Dubliner of great seriousness, we just wanted the tourist experience in one handy meal before taking in the shopping, the art, the shopping, the buildings, the shopping and the wonderful bridges. Did I mention the shopping?

Thankyou for that, Trail Child. Another thing he's got in common with the Devil.

 

[compo]

You must have been going some to find the only restaurant in Dublin still staffed by Church-going Catholics who give a toss about the Hierarchy.

I stayed in a homeless persons hostel in Dublin when I was there. One day some of the lads said they were going to the church for Sunday dinner. We walked a while, I have no idea where, until they turned into a big church hall where nuns and civvies were serving dinners for the homeless and such like. These were proper dinners, huge helpings on big plates. the price.... nowt, free, gratis and we didn't even have to listen to a sermon.

Good on the Church-going Catholics says this Protestant!

 

[Hover Fly]

And, on a related subject, hats off to the young Irish woman I spoke to today who wasn't going to let only possessing an open framed roadster stop her riding from Barrow round Coniston Water and home again (50ish miles). A big slap across the head to me for lapsing into a comedy Irish accent while speaking to her.