Cheapest place in town for lunch

ohandels

Any ideas, im sick off paying €6 for crappy Mc Donalds.

rubadub

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=233653
€8 pizza in a resturaunt.

I hope you get your 2 big macs for 1 in mcd's. nearly all supermarkets give this on the back of receipts. abras usually have daytime offers too. the southern fried chicken in dunnes is very good too.

animaal

Make your own sambos and bring them to work in a lunchbox? Must be healthier than all that grease.

pissed

or better still get someone else to make them for you.... they always taste better

rubadub

pissed wrote:

or better still get someone else to make them for you.... they always taste better

like chips from somebody elses plate too

LizardKing

Konkan (Indian restaurant on clanbrassil street , on way to Harolds X )
has a great lunch menu ..

starter / main course with rice/naan and tea/coffee for €8.99

Fills ya up loads ...

carbsy

The mere title of this thread is offensive - there's more to Ireland than Dublin, monkeys. :rolleyes:

JuliusFranco

carbsy wrote:

The mere title of this thread is offensive - there's more to Ireland than Dublin, monkeys. :rolleyes:

well i'll assuming he/she eats lunch in Dublin City. Although the €1.50 lunch in Pegs in Ballymacfúckarsé might be great value, it's not really of help to someone working in town now is it?

Jorinn

Quiznos in the Kylemore, 1st floor in the Green make great rolls.

Gone West

theres quiznos in Ireland? Why wasnt I informed?

Cyrus

gerrys on monteque (spelling?) lane off harcourt street cheap quality grub, busy tho

REDZ

da pino on parliment street do a fine lunch special, with pizza or pasta or steak!,with salad and drink for €7.60..the pizza is lovely.

Fanny Cradock

Cornucopia on Wexford Street is great for salads (if you like that sort of thing). you can get a large plate of different types of salads for about €5. That with a slice of their fresh bread works out as really good value, as well as being healthy and will fill you up!

If you can put up with the ambient sounds of "chant and be happy", Govindas on Georges street is also good value. If you're not sure, just ask for a plate with everything on it - they really pile it high (€8). Lie and say you’re a student and they'll give 10% off. Although, if they find out you are lying they will kill you and eat your soul!

Enjoy!

idontknowmyname

Gotham on South Anne St.......they do the daily soup and this italian bread thing for 3.95 and its really filling. They're the best restaurant in town by far

Inspector Gadget

well i'll assuming he/she eats lunch in Dublin City. Although the €1.50 lunch in Pegs in Ballymacfúckarsé might be great value, it's not really of help to someone working in town now is it?

I think what carbsy is referring to is the somewhat irksome assumption by some that "town" is synonymous with "Dublin"... I should imagine that there are at least a few hundred thousand other places worldwide (and at least a few hundred within Ireland) that would also qualify...

Being in Galway, I'm inclined to side with carbsy on this one
Gadget

dawballz

JuliusFranco wrote:

well i'll assuming he/she eats lunch in Dublin City. Although the €1.50 lunch in Pegs in Ballymacfúckarsé might be great value, it's not really of help to someone working in town now is it?

What town?

Kernel

dawballz wrote:

What town?

Get that chip off your shoulder and get with the programme. Dublin is the capital, it is the centre of this entire land. When we say 'town', we mean Dublin city centre. Back to play in the fields with you.

Murt10

The Alilang Korean Restaurant 102 Parnell Street, Dublin 1 (just off O'Connell St) does a lunch special for E7.00. It's great. If your not up to a Korean you can order a chinese curry if you want. I prefer the Korean.

You get a starter and a cup of the weakest tea imaginable. The main course is served with one or two side dishes and you finish with a coffee. You cannot go wrong. They put a fried egg on top of one of the main courses which is served in a red hot metal bowl. You mix the whole lot up. The staff (Korean) are very friendly and will advise you.

I have read two reviews in the papers for the night time meal and they both highly recommended it. I thing one was by Ross Golden Bannon from the Sunday Business Post.

Most times I have been in there at lunch time the oriental customers have outnumbered the locals.

Korean food is hot and spicy, but as you said your bored with McD. For E7.00 you cannot go wrong. Here is another review I've got from Google

http://www.indublin.ie/Restaurants.asp?detail=True&AZ=True&Letter=A&ID=2964&iPage=3&Direction=&UR=Y&UR=Y&PageCount=6&Sort=&UR=Y

pickarooney

JuliusFranco wrote:

well i'll assuming he/she eats lunch in Dublin City. Although the €1.50 lunch in Pegs in Ballymacfúckarsé might be great value, it's not really of help to someone working in town now is it?

Love that signature

ozmo

ohandels wrote:

Any ideas, im sick off paying €6 for crappy Mc Donalds.

Spar. One in Castleknock anyway has Hot Carvery Roast Beef on a cdf roll with salad for 3.60

Ro: maaan!

Trinity tbh. Failing that, use coupons in Burger King or McDonalds.


As for the whole town thing, they're right. People from Dublin just assume everyone else is also from Dublin. Or at least expect everyone else to acknowledge that Dublin is the standard and should recieve precidence. It's pretty much exactly what people give out about Americans for...

Tiriel

Ro: maaan! wrote:

As for the whole town thing, they're right. People from Dublin just assume everyone else is also from Dublin. Or at least expect everyone else to acknowledge that Dublin is the standard and should recieve precidence. It's pretty much exactly what people give out about Americans for...

Spot on

rubadub

Ro: maaan! wrote:

As for the whole town thing, they're right. People from Dublin just assume everyone else is also from Dublin.

If I was in galway and somebody said "I'm going into town" I would presume they meant galway town (or is it a city?). If I see it on an Irish website, newspaper or TV news and the mention something happened in "town" I would presume they meant dublin town, otherwise they would specify it clearly. "Town" has become more of a nickname for Dublin city centre, it is a city not a town.

The mere title of this thread is offensive - there's more to Ireland than Dublin, monkeys

Don't see what is offensive, you are getting upset at peoples presumptions but you made the presumption the poster was refering to dublin city yourself.

anyways the cheapest meal seems to be the free chips on people's shoulders

drdre

i went to the shalimar restaurant in georges street. lunch was only 10 euro and it was filling. you get a choice of starters,main course and also tea or coffee. it also has a very nice dinner menu.
its one of the best indians i have been to,i asked the guy how long they were established and they are the 2nd oldest indian restaurant in ireland.Now that shows that they know their food.

SouperComputer

Ballymacfúckarsé

nealu pi

SouperComputer

Ballymacfúckarsé

nealu pi$$ed myself laughing at that one!

seconded shalamar, also Darwin on aungier street is good. Place is a bit cramped though.

lomb

Fanny Cradock wrote:

Cornucopia on Wexford Street is great for salads (if you like that sort of thing). you can get a large plate of different types of salads for about €5. That with a slice of their fresh bread works out as really good value, as well as being healthy and will fill you up!

If you can put up with the ambient sounds of "chant and be happy", Govindas on Georges street is also good value. If you're not sure, just ask for a plate with everything on it - they really pile it high (€8). Lie and say you’re a student and they'll give 10% off. Although, if they find out you are lying they will kill you and eat your soul!

Enjoy!

govindas is the best value in dublin for the large plate of everything. definately try it.

Inspector Gadget

rubadub wrote:

If I was in galway and somebody said "I'm going into town" I would presume they meant galway town (or is it a city?). If I see it on an Irish website, newspaper or TV news and the mention something happened in "town" I would presume they meant dublin town, otherwise they would specify it clearly. "Town" has become more of a nickname for Dublin city centre, it is a city not a town.

Don't see what is offensive, you are getting upset at peoples presumptions but you made the presumption the poster was refering to dublin city yourself.

anyways the cheapest meal seems to be the free chips on people's shoulders

In fairness, the criticism isn't directed at anyone in particular (though pointing fingers at people and informing them that you believe they have "chips on their shoulders" is mildly inflammatory, and counter-productive - then again, so is calling people "monkeys", despite the obvious genetic heritage issues ).

However, to respond your argument, if you were in Galway and somebody said "I'm going to town" that would naturally follow, but only where there's context; if you're talking to someone who knows where you are (possibly because they're nearby), great. However, in the big bad geographically apathetic world of the interweb (tm), one or more clues may be required.

And, to be fair, (though I can't speak for everyone) the only reason that some of us are drawing the conclusion that the original poster was referring to Dublin when he/she said "town" is because we're used to seeing people generalising in this manner, and can narrow it down a little due to the fact that this is an Ireland-centric site - it doesn't necessarily mean we like or approve of it. Oh, and I agree that it most definitively is a city, and not a town, which kinda causes further confusion. I guess it's the same kind of arrogance that led people to call the planet we're on "Earth"...

(You'll also find that the insular notion of referring to Dublin as "town" in the media is more-or less restricted to local services, and perhaps the Evening Herald - none of the (other) papers with national circulation do this, as far as I know, and apart from occasional reports on "AA Roadwatch", neither do the national TV stations or the nationwide or non-Dublin-based provincial radio stations)

Sorry to hijack the thread folks, I'll shut up now.
Gadget

MDR

I find it incredible that people are queuing up to take offense from a throw away reference to "the town". If it was about any other town there would be no question of this kind of debate but because it's Dublin, the "sure Dublin thinks its the centre of the world" crowd jump on it and never miss the opportunity to point of that there is life outside Dublin.

Yeah we know there is life outside Dublin, your never done reminding us. All someone did is ask where the cheapest place's to eat in town, I don't know why there is always such offense is taken, last time it was because some said O'Connell street and didn't qualify it with O'Connel street dublin.

so lets all go PC crazy to keep our cousins outside the pale happy and qualify it geographic refernce entirely, so I will no longer say in town, I will say Dublin Town, Lenster, Republic Of Ireland, Island Of Ireland, Europe, The Nothern Hemisphere, The Earth, lest I cause offense ...

Build a bridge

MDR

oh yeah, C2K on Abbey Street (near Capel Street), is one of the best and least known dublin cafés, Charlie I & II & III are always good for the large luch

Kernel

MDR wrote:

I find it incredible that people are queuing up to take offense from a throw away reference to "the town". If it was about any other town there would be no question of this kind of debate but because it's Dublin, the "sure Dublin thinks its the centre of the world" crowd jump on it and never miss the opportunity to point of that there is life outside Dublin.

Yeah we know there is life outside Dublin, your never done reminding us. All someone did is ask where the cheapest place's to eat in town, I don't know why there is always such offense is taken, last time it was because some said O'Connell street and didn't qualify it with O'Connel street dublin.

so lets all go PC crazy to keep our cousins outside the pale happy and qualify it geographic refernce entirely, so I will no longer say in town, I will say Dublin Town, Lenster, Republic Of Ireland, Island Of Ireland, Europe, The Nothern Hemisphere, The Earth, lest I cause offense ...

Build a bridge

Well said brother. These culchies are getting a bit too 'uppity' for my liking.

dawballz

Kernel wrote:

Get that chip off your shoulder and get with the programme. Dublin is the capital, it is the centre of this entire land. When we say 'town', we mean Dublin city centre. Back to play in the fields with you.

Never heard of it.

Mr. Fancypants

Tutti on Parliament st is great. Nice lunch for €5. I recommend the Bangors and Mash or the Baked Potato with Chili.

Ro: maaan!

Kernel wrote:

Get that chip off your shoulder and get with the programme. Dublin is the capital, it is the centre of this entire land. When we say 'town', we mean Dublin city centre. Back to play in the fields with you.

Btw what difference does it make that it's the capital? If they decided to change Cork to the capital would it then all shift to Cork's favour? Would you stop refering to Dublin City Centre as town when there's no context? Are you that concerned with and wrapped up in the politics of geography? This is just like people calling homosexuality "unnatural". I doubt any of them really cared about what was and wasn't natural before that...

Kernel

Ro: maaan! wrote:

Btw what difference does it make that it's the capital? If they decided to change Cork to the capital would it then all shift to Cork's favour? Would you stop refering to Dublin City Centre as town when there's no context? Are you that concerned with and wrapped up in the politics of geography? This is just like people calling homosexuality "unnatural". I doubt any of them really cared about what was and wasn't natural before that...

Eh, I could answer, but I don't really give a ****e about any of what you said, and it's off topic.

Atari Jaguar.

Ro: maaan!

Right so.

rfoconnor

I used to go to Tulsi when i worked in that area.

Tulsi can be found on Baggot Street, Dublin 2

Fanny Cradock

Ro: maaan! wrote:

This is just like people calling homosexuality "unnatural". I doubt any of them really cared about what was and wasn't natural before that...

what???? that's utter tosh and pure flim-flam! What you just wrote there is mindless bollox, that has nothing to do with ANYTHING in this thread.

If you carefully re-read the thread, it is entitled: "Cheapest place in town for lunch". Now, I am actually interested in finding out if there is any other good places to eat in town, but f f s keep your replies on the point of the topic.
Who gives a **** if people refer to dublin as "town" - get over it!

If you have something to say on geography or homosexuality, i suggest you go to the appropriate sections