best place for lunch outside tcd?

snorlax

i'd say marks and spencers, they do really cheap sandwiches and great chocolate chip cookies( which were only 60cent when i started college, but now 80cent!), also frontpage does cheap sandwiches.

ApeXaviour

Dunnes on georges st do beautiful cooked cheap cheap pizza's.. It's not far at all if u cut through graften st.

If you got a couple more bob on you the Mongolian Barbeque restaurant in Temple Bar. They do some buffet lunch special thing for a tenner afaik..

Maguires, Wicklow Street.

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Brewbaker

Sev

If you wanna spend a lil more money, O'Neill's has a great lunch time carvery. You can get a bit hearty wholesome meal there for like a tenner and you wont go hungry for a week. Then theres the pizza hut all you can eat buffet at lunch time. The kind of thing you'd go to with a group, once in a while. The guys in my course made a ritual out of it.

Shrimp

Little Ceaser's off grafton street, and dame street do great lunch time menus for really cheep.. like 2.50 for soup and bread... and like 6.50 for the main course.. great if u do be asking my..

John

Lunch just across and around the corner from Goldsmith and at the back of Brown Thomas. A little pricey but very nice. Munchies on Exchequer St. is fantastic, get the Munchie Brunchie, the nicest sandwich ever. Apache Pizza on Dame St does nice pizza and Iskanders (also on Dame St) does the best kebabs. I'll second Roundtower's vote for Brewbakers. Trastevere in Temple Bar has a really nice lunchtime menu and Tante Zoe's in Temple Bar is one of the best restaurants in Dublin in my opinion.

Kevin_rc_ie

I like Take 5, just out the vechicle entrance nearest the pav. good salalds.

Crash

Ah tanta zoes and their cajun martinis.... :P

John

crash_000 wrote:

Ah tanta zoes and their cajun martinis.... :P

cajun martinis? I've obviously been missing out

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Athena - the pizza place on Dame Street do a mean kebab meat pizza - maybe more suited for the slightly sozzled late-night munchie

The O'Brien's Irish Breakfast sambo (with delicious Ballymaloe relish) is a sandwich to behold...

aodh_rua

Lunch! is pretty good - especially the cajun chicken panini. I like Elephant & Castle too, but it's not really an everyday eatery. Big dinners in O'Neills used to be great, but I think they've gone downhill lately.

pseudonym

aodh_rua wrote:

Big dinners in O'Neills used to be great, but I think they've gone downhill lately.

True, whatever happened to the mountains of food u used to get?? Last time i went twas crap, and the ham was rubbery.

Oh well, it was too good too last.

Telia

Has to be Bolands.. Cheapest (and biggest) rolls +sandwiches you'll find in the city.. Queue at lunchtime.. Not open outside lunchtime...

Kevin_rc_ie

I like bolands too.

Kappar

Those M&S cookies are only great. Subway is fav tbh.

Plunky

Dunne & Crescenzi's up the side street between Read's and Butler's Café is a gorgeous quaint restaurant for italian.. And pretty cheap too.

cuckoo

If you want to feel healthy Cornucopia on Wicklow St does lovely veggie food, for 10e you get a hot dish with two salads. You can have lovely fresh fruit salad (in a seperate bowl) as one of the salads.

If you want to be flirted with by nice Italian waiters/waitresses there's an italian place on the top floor of powerscourt that does lovely pasta and gnocci, plus a yummy anti pasto (with veggie option).

Lemon, on Sth William St and soon to open on dawson st, does savoury crepes that are good value and a very quick lunch.

If you're in cash sushi in aya, off wicklow street behind Brown Thomas, is yum.

For bad hair and everything-going-wrong-i-want-to-cry days haagen-das on wicklow street goes some way towards making things better. As does hot chocolate from Butlers cafe, on the corner of wicklow/sth william st and on nassau street.

There's also a great Italian cafe on Westland Row that has divine panninis (again, with the spelling), good coffee and flirty italian staff. :rolleyes:

aodh_rua

Yeah Cafe di Napoli on Westland Row does great coffee and really good danish pastries (thus avoiding having to come up with a plural for danish - clever huh!)

John

aodh_rua wrote:

Lunch! is pretty good - especially the cajun chicken panini. I like Elephant & Castle too, but it's not really an everyday eatery.

A man after my own heart. E&C's chicken drumstick starter thing is tops. And for the anti-social student the garlic burger meal.

desertcircus

Tutti is brilliant for cheap food - their fiver lunch, their charge by the clock policy in the evenings, their €3 beers...

foxybrowne

You can't beat little Mac's on Georges St. Arcade, lovely chicken breast burgers. In fact, after I submit my overdue German assignments and go and go for a telling off from my lecturer, I'm gonnta go for a tasty chicken burger.

Nollser

Telia wrote:

Has to be Bolands.. Cheapest (and biggest) rolls +sandwiches you'll find in the city.. Queue at lunchtime.. Not open outside lunchtime...

Bolands is overrated. Viking is King

Ferrioxide

O'Donovans near Goldsmith do a great breakfast roll. (kit-kat shop)

cuckoo

cuckoo wrote:

If you're in cash sushi in aya, off wicklow street behind Brown Thomas, is yum.

Aya Deli was fantastic when it was open. I wandered up there awhile back to discover it has been turned into a Lunch!. My plan was to survive on it for next year. Damn.

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if you can delay lunch until about 10pm, then you can avail of the Aya late-night offer of all dishes for €1.25 each!!

The Malotti lunch deal is really good. Prob is that Indian food for lunch doesn't always induce a desire to study in the afternoon! but, it has to be the best indian in city centre dublin...

Roundtower2

Roundtower2 wrote:

if you can delay lunch until about 10pm, then you can avail of the Aya late-night offer of all dishes for €1.25 each!!

The Malotti lunch deal is really good. Prob is that Indian food for lunch doesn't always induce a desire to study in the afternoon! but, it has to be the best indian in city centre dublin...

By that stage, Centra on westland row does half-price hot food. Massively unhealthy, but still good. They stopped doing half-price food at 7:30 after they realised we were hungry at 7:30...

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potentially useful info re centra late-night half-price food - their quiche is less likely than the other food to be dried out and tough as bricks!

cuckoo

This thread is inducing hunger in me...

Pet

Cornucopia are good for vegetarian food, as are Govinda's (it's a Hare Krishna run place, but who cares? they're nice people).

DrIndy

Pet wrote:

Cornucopia are good for vegetarian food, as are Govinda's (it's a Hare Krishna run place, but who cares? they're nice people).

Steps of Rome and order the grub in your finest pseudo-italian......:)