Lunch in Trinity

sternn

Just wondering, where do people eat their lunch? Have you found a gold mine?

I for one have found the most amazing roll tiwana chicken in...donovans! Maybe only those over in the hamilton end have ever heard of the place, but I use it maybe twice a week. Its great, and cheap!

Crash

I survived coming up to my degree on o'donovans breakfast rolls/baps/sandwiches, at times five days a week.

Brian

Day old sandwiches in Cafe Sol on Dawson St: €2.50. Funkin' deadly.

Plate of food in the dining hall in Front Square ~ €5 which is pretty good too.

Jonathan

JCR in goldsmith.

orestes

Baza210 wrote: »

Plate of food in the dining hall in Front Square ~ €5 which is pretty good too.

Is that the Buttery or is there another place I haven't found out about yet?

I'm living on chicken rolls from the Spar outside the Nassau Street enterence. €3.60, not too shabby. Was quite handy for the last couple of weeks while they were doing the 2 cans of Coke for a euro thing, lunch for a fiver and an extra can of Coke for later on too, not too shabby

Apart from Tuesdays, cos that's cheap meatball sub day in Subway

Brian

I think it's above the Buttery. Rather than going down that ramp to the ATM, go up the steps to the right.

Morbert

The place above the Buttery is amazing. A proper, decent meal for 5.95 with dessert included.

tolosenc

Pav. €6. Amazing. At least once a week. More often if money allows.

RATM

Try going in the Duke just off Dawson Street and ask for a half portion off their carvery. Portion is still quite good and you can help yourself to free bread too. All for 6.50, quite a good price and tasty food too.

Another one but a bit of a walk away is the Russell Court Hotel on Harcourt St. Absolutely huge portions on the carvery for only 7.50-8.50. If you finish the whole lunch you'll struggle to walk back to college.

Ravelleman

I'm a fan of the Runner Bean on Nassau St. You can get a very large sandwich and a piece of fruit for around €4 with their student discount. The ingredients are very high quality. They have nice salads as well, if you're that way inclined.

Moorsy

I've recently found Nude to be good, although probably a bit more expensive than the above suggestions. After 6 (I think, or somewhere around that time) they have an evening special 'mish mash'. You get a pannini, soup and a smothie for 9.90 (when you ask for student discount, 11 without). Seeing as a pannini is about 6 on it's own, and the soup and the smothie being the same again it works out pretty well, it'll fill ya up for the whole night.

Half carvary in the Duke sounds good.

Mark200

Where is Donovans/O' Donovans?


I usually just buy a sandwich, and wander over to the computer room

Ron DMC

Mark200 wrote: »

Where is Donovans/O' Donovans?


I usually just buy a sandwich, and wander over to the computer room

Pearse St opposite the JCR.

O'Donovans is the king of breakfast rolls.

Awayindahils

Myth wrote: »

O'Donovans is the king of breakfast rolls.

I was driving past with my mum and she asked me how on earth a shop that size was surviving and I explained to her the loyalty of Trinity students.

TheAmateur

This is a dead handy thread! Are there any other good shops down at the hamilton end? I've just been heading up to nassau street so far, haven't really checked out what's further down.

Pet

Lunch is pretty good, it's just past the Lombard [formerly Mahaffy's, sniff], although it does get quite busy.

If you have your lunchbreak at odd times [ie, not the peak 12-2pm hours], you could try Cornucopia [Wicklow Street] or Govinda's [walk out the Lincoln Place exit, walk up Merrion Square past the Dáil, and it's on the corner with Merrion Row], both of which do tasy, good-value vegetarian food, with massive portions.

For the days when you want to splash out and have really nice restaurant food, but still fairly affordable [like €12 for a mains portion], try the Avoca Cafe, it's literally 2 minutes' walk from Front Arch.

Me, I was always a fan of M & S sandwiches - tasty, cheap and healthy. Now that I live 5 minutes' walk from campus, I tend to just go home for lunch, on the days when I actually get time off to eat/have a life. [Oh, JS neuroscience, we have a strained relationship.]

sternn

1 of the reasons why I go to O'donovans is because it is cheap. 3.20 for a roll is amazing, especially with the decent fillings they put in. I did find a very nice place off Nassau Street, €7 for a burger and chips and a side salad. Only been there once though.

Jonathan

e3 for a roll in the JCR is even more amazing.

PointedSkyward

I just heard the dining hall @ lunch is actually cheaper than the buttery!! Sausage Beans and chips 4.50 Vs. $.60 and studen special only 3.80!

Degsy

Dining hall is far better food than the buterry but i find it has gotten pricey of late.For example the joint of the day which is usually a decent cut of meat eg steak or duck,with veg is about 7 quid.

leninbenjamin

Degsy wrote: »

Dining hall is far better food than the buterry but i find it has gotten pricey of late.For example the joint of the day which is usually a decent cut of meat eg steak or duck,with veg is about 7 quid.

Dining hall has the same food... it's the same kitchen afaik. i live off either O'Donavan's rolls or the studen special in the dining hall.

EGaffney

Boland's - Sandwich with 1 meat/cheese/tuna & 3 fillings - €2.70

You're unlikely to get better value than that. It's on Upper Duke Lane, which runs parallel between Grafton St and Dawson St. Get to it via Dawson St - Duke St - Upper Duke Lane.

Note also that this compensates in some small way for the Hamilton bias above.

O'Donovans or else Griffins Londis near the Moley Malone Statue.

Ron DMC

I have to wholeheartedly agree with Ed's fine suggestion of Boland's.

They also do a mean soup.

HedgeFund

EGaffney wrote: »

Boland's - Sandwich with 1 meat/cheese/tuna & 3 fillings - €2.70

You're unlikely to get better value than that. It's on Upper Duke Lane, which runs parallel between Grafton St and Dawson St. Get to it via Dawson St - Duke St - Upper Duke Lane.

Note also that this compensates in some small way for the Hamilton bias above.

For a sandwhich?? If it was a roll, it'd be excellent, but 2.70 for a sambo... not

Brian

Don't you mean crumin?

HedgeFund

What? no I mean sambo!

EGaffney

HedgeFund wrote: »

For a sandwhich?? If it was a roll, it'd be excellent, but 2.70 for a sambo... not

Incorrect analysis based on Dublin prices of sandwiches. They are also very big sandwiches.

HedgeFund

EGaffney wrote: »

Incorrect analysis based on Dublin prices of sandwiches. They are also very big sandwiches.

But tis nothing to shout about when one can get a roll for just €3 in JCR!

Pet

Where's Ed when you need a good rant about the crusty hippies who run that place?

HedgeFund

HedgeFund wrote: »

But tis nothing to shout about when one can get a roll for just €3 in JCR!

€3 for food poisoning is good value, I'll admit that.

Not something I'd personally pay for though.

Crash

There's a great sambo place if you go down pearse st. in the direction of ringsend, on the right hand side. Does amazing sandwiches, closes up once they run out of stock for the day. Can't for the life of me remember the name of em, but they were tasty as ****.

EGaffney

My case against the JCR is based not at all on the socialism of the JCR crowd - although I did stay away for a while after they put up the PLO flag. I couldn't care what they believe tbh as long as they don't poison my sandwiches. My case is based on the proximity of Boland's to the Arts block compared to the JCR, which is very far away.

The sandwiches are very big, though. I can't really overstate this. Rolls and sandwiches don't just come in one size you know.

Degsy

leninbenjamin wrote: »

Dining hall has the same food... it's the same kitchen afaik. i live off either O'Donavan's rolls or the studen special in the dining hall.

It has the same student special but the dining hall has the Joint of The Day which the buttery doesnt.Also the dining hall doesnt have the pizza and pasta muck that the buttery has.

Joetheplumber

EGaffney wrote: »

The sandwiches are very big, though. I can't really overstate this. Rolls and sandwiches don't just come in one size you know.

Yes but to make a point - there's a standard size roll and a standard sized slice of bread. The filling of the sandwich needs to be far greater than that of the roll to make up the difference, let alone exceed that of the roll. which is kinda difficult as it's easier to pack more into a roll anyway.

I am sad.

EGaffney

Which is what they do. Obviously there is only one size of bread, so the filling has to be where the difference comes in.

Joetheplumber

but you cant get more filling in a sandwich than a roll!

Brian

Hmm. I would dispute that. In a roll you're filling into a segment of a cylinder, whereas in a sandwich you're filling into a rectangular prism of set width and length, and whose height is only restricted by the size of your hands.

Jonathan

Baza210 wrote: »

Hmm. I would dispute that. In a roll you're filling into a segment of a cylinder, whereas in a sandwich you're filling into a rectangular prism of set width and length, and whose height is only restricted by the size of your hands.

Find the second derivitive...

Brian

What is epsilon as the limit tends towards blah blah delta blah.

Edwardius

Pet wrote: »

Where's Ed when you need a good rant about the crusty hippies who run that place?

They should get some quality cheap labour from somewhere and it might be ok. That lot seemed to take such offense to being expected to even breathe, let alone make sandwiches it was ridiculous. If that wasn't the case, you could almost tolerate them and their "interesting" personalities (I'm convinced this is a disease contracted from standing around that place scoffing manufactured "food products" and labouring under the illusion that the sounds emanating from the holes in their empty little heads are somehow of interest to anything other than a rotten fencepost) all the while trying to convince themselves that, according to their mothers, they are indeed special.

As for the food: Well it would be cheap if it were indeed food but I've heard from a reliable source that the sausages in there were manufactured from crude oil and radioactive waste and they possibly have a sprinkling of some sort of mind control substance that convinces people that the JCR is infact somewhere deserving of people's time and money. I'm not sure about the rolls though. I think they're some sort of expanded polyurethane but don't quote me on that.

Damnit Ronan, I'd forgotten all about these alleged "humans" until you brought it up! Not to worry though, I'll have them shot!

Moorsy

I second BOLANDS. It's a fantastic little place. The guy, who I imagine owns it (at the till usually), is really nice and has a great report with regulars. I like to use the amount of business as a test for how good a place is. If you go there between 12 - 1.30 the que is always out the door.

On the point of the JCR I'd go there more often if I wasn't arts block based. TBH I'd also rather eat and relax in a place that isn't focused towards profit for the owner soley. If there is a profit in the JCR it's put back into getting pool tables or more couches to chill-out on...I didn't know they had the PLO flag hanging there, if I did I would have gone far far more...

caffrey

Going Forward wrote: »

There's a great sambo place if you go down pearse st. in the direction of ringsend, on the right hand side. Does amazing sandwiches, closes up once they run out of stock for the day. Can't for the life of me remember the name of em, but they were tasty as ****.

Thats the pig and heffer. Recommend it, very good stuff but it is quite pricey. The salads look like very good value. favourite sandwiches are greek lamb and chorizo and feta

duncanb

EGaffney wrote: »

My case against the JCR is based not at all on the socialism of the JCR crowd - although I did stay away for a while after they put up the PLO flag. I couldn't care what they believe tbh as long as they don't poison my sandwiches. My case is based on the proximity of Boland's to the Arts block compared to the JCR, which is very far away.

The sandwiches are very big, though. I can't really overstate this. Rolls and sandwiches don't just come in one size you know.

Can someone tell me what JCR stands for.

And what a PLO flag is?

tnx

Epic Tissue

duncanb wrote: »

Can someone tell me what JCR stands for.

And what a PLO flag is?

tnx

Junior Common Room. There's no senior common room at the moment in case that's your next question. I think there used to be or something. Someone else probably knows more.

Poland Loves Oranges:o

duncanb

Epic Tissue wrote: »

Junior Common Room. There's no senior common room at the moment in case that's your next question. I think there used to be or something. Someone else probably knows more.

Poland Loves Oranges:o

Epic Tissue

Epic Tissue wrote: »

Junior Common Room. There's no senior common room at the moment in case that's your next question. I think there used to be or something. Someone else probably knows more.

Poland Loves Oranges:o

The SCR above the dining hall isn't there anymore?

Epic Tissue

Myth wrote: »

The SCR above the dining hall isn't there anymore?

What's it for?:o

ilovemybrick

Myth wrote: »

The SCR above the dining hall isn't there anymore?

Its still there. Don't worry.

gramhar

OK!!! this is where I go at the moment:


centra on pearse st. beside pearse station!!

1 word: Amazing!!!


A FANTASTIC choice

and you can get lots of bargains!!!

potato wedges: !.70
really nice veg soup: 1.69
big pizza slice 2 euro
sausages in large roll: 1.95