Breakfast near DCU

angeldaisy

Not sure if this is in the right place?

I'm up in DCU shortly over a weekend and wondered if there was anywhere nearby to get a breakfast. Looking for somewhere on Saturday and Sunday mornings.

We are staying in the Metro Hotel, Ballymun and hate paying hotel prices for food!

Bluetonic

IKEA - http://www.ikea.com/ie/en/store/dublin/restaurant

OkayWhatever

Andersons down in The Rise, just off Ballymun Road, is yummy! I live around there and go often, always delish!

http://www.andersons.ie/menus/&c=foodhall

ProudDUB

+ 1 for Andersons. Seriously yummy food. It is not near though, in the sense that you could walk to it in 5 mins from the hotel. It is a couple of miles away. You could walk (about 30 mins) drive, or jump on the no 4 bus that passes by. Get off at Griffith Ave and The Rise will be the first street on the left. There aren't a ton of sit down restaurants in the area.

Bandara

If the op hates paying 'hotel prices' for food then Andersens will be far to expensive for them.

Eurospar in northwood have a sitdown area, just get a coffee and sausage sambo in there

hfallada

IKEA do breakfast and its cheap. Its not amazing but I imagine its the same quality as hotel food

angeldaisy

thanks for the info. Will look into those. Ikea will be perfect for the Sunday morning, just doesn't open early enough for the Saturday.

its looking like it might be eurospar for a butty on the way to DCU.


Its not so much as how much it costs, more how much its worth!

Tombo2001

On St Pappins Road there is a little french cafe that does very nice food, made in store. Its beside a pub, the Slipper I think.

Its opposite the Ballymun Road entrance to DCU.

Birneybau

ProudDUB wrote: »

+ 1 for Andersons. Seriously yummy food. It is not near though, in the sense that you could walk to it in 5 mins from the hotel. It is a couple of miles away. You could walk (about 30 mins) drive, or jump on the no 4 bus that passes by. Get off at Griffith Ave and The Rise will be the first street on the left. There aren't a ton of sit down restaurants in the area.

Jump on the 13 and it actually passes it, have to have eagle eyes though, it's off Griffith Avenue, on the left hand side.

There is a little café around by the Eurospar/Centra/Matt Weldon's strip right across from DCU that my housemates said was lovely.

ProudDUB

Bandara wrote: »

If the op hates paying 'hotel prices' for food then Andersens will be far to expensive for them.

Eurospar in northwood have a sitdown area, just get a coffee and sausage sambo in there

Yep, Andersons ain't exactly cheap, but at least it is very good grub. There is nothing worse than coughing up big bucks for a hotel brekkie, only to find it is lukewarm rashers/sossies/eggs that were cooked hours ago & have been sitting in a pool of grease, under a heat lamp, ever since. Yuk ! :mad:

my friend

€4 bfast including coffee @ Mickey D's, located in Gulliver retail park 5 minute walk from where you are staying , cut through Santry Avenue.

Dyr

If you're going for a butty, there's a little catering business with a deli down the road from the metro that does a savage breakfast roll etc to go, its at the back of the ballymun shopping centre and you probably wouldnt see it unless you knew where to look

you have a spar in the robin hood business park that does has a deli and tables too

pale blue dot cotton

Ikea breakfast isn't bad and they'll even put it together for you. But you'll go in for a breakfast and leave with a lamp. Guaranteed.

harry Bailey esq

for dcu you've got subway,closer to your hotel there is a very tasty and cheap greasy spoon inside ballymun shopping centre,if its still there.That's directly across the road from your hotel.also I've been told great things about the firehouse pizza place although i havnt ordered from them yet

Dyr

firehouse is good but it wouldn't be open morning's even if ya wanted pizza

cruais

I didnt like firehouse at all

Birneybau

I bloody love it, great value too.

discus

harry Bailey esq wrote: »

for dcu you've got subway,closer to your hotel there is a very tasty and cheap greasy spoon inside ballymun shopping centre,if its still there.That's directly across the road from your hotel.also I've been told great things about the firehouse pizza place although i havnt ordered from them yet

Is there a subway in dcu?

harry Bailey esq

discus wrote: »

Is there a subway in dcu?

Yeah,they opened one across the road from the ballymun road entrance to dcu between Matt weldons(the slipper) and the spar shop.if the op is willing to hop on a bus smiths at crossguns bridge do a cracking breakfast,its a pub though so it only opens at 10.30 am

LMN3

The restaurant at Sportslink (Furry Park - just beyond Northwood) does a very good Full Irish Breakfast (for €7 IIRC - including fried potatoes!). It's not too far away from the Metro Hotel either.

Sandraf

Where is Micky D's ?

ProudDUB

Sandraf wrote: »

Where is Micky D's ?

In the Gulliver Retail Park, just up the road. Coming from the OP's hotel & Ballymun village, you head north going towards IKEA & the M50. There will be a Topaz petrol station on the right. Turn right there and the retail park is on the left, at the roundabout. McDonalds is in there. There is also a Eurospar or Mace type shop beside the McDonalds. They probably do some sort of breakfast roll, as there are a lot of businesses near by.

harry Bailey esq

yep,within walking distance of op's hotel,the shop is a eurospar with a huge deli counter and opens very early,as is mc Donalds due to the amount of trucks coming in and out at all hours