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Food and drink prices in Dublin

Carnmore

Visited Dublin yesterday and was astounded by the exorbitant prices charged for food and drink.

Govindas: €12.45 for a smalll plate.

The Duke: €8.90 for a pint of IPA.

Leo Burdocks: €19.95 for a medium fish & chips.

Are these prices correct or did they see me coming?

The Duke website drinks menu has all pints at a much lower price than €8.90.

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madmac187

Dining out in Dublin much less the rest of the country is a rob at the minute and the quality of food out is abysmal.

Oscar_Madison

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058429230/food-and-drink-prices-in-dublin

“The Duke: €8.90 for a pint of IPA.”

Was out in Dublin for a meal and a few pints yesterday afternoon- 7.50 for a pint of plain - It wasn’t as if it was in Temple Bar or anything - the meal was “nice” but definitely overpriced for what it was .

As someone who used to know every pub in Dublin 2 and frequented many of them regularly, I can’t get over just how many pubs and restaurants now exist in that area - a super choice for the consumer but jayzuz you do need a serious amount of dosh to head out to enjoy yourself

Royale with Cheese

Went out for lunch at a new Italian place in Dalkey a few months back. A small enough lasagne, some other small plate for the wife and one glass of wine cost us the guts of €60. Decided then it's just not worth it anymore. Can see a lot more places closing down if those are the kind of prices they need to charge to stay in business, people just won't bother or won't be able to afford it.

The Nal

Well a large smoked cod and chips is €16.95 in Burdocks not €19.95.

"small plate" in Govindas for €12.95. Rice, dahl and 3 other items such as potatoes, mixed veg etc. Decent.

The IPA, well yeah same all around the world. Thats on people who drink IPA.

You're right its not cheap though. That said, was in Reggies in Rathmines last night. Nice bottle of red, arancini starter and two pizzas for 80 quid.

The price of the G&Ts the missus was drinking before dinner is the real crime. Considering the abysmal measures we get here. Criminal.

magicbastarder

Am in Bristol, over for a friend's 50th. Pat of the discussion last night was about how it's not nearly as much cheaper than Dublin as we'd expected.

Four miles out from the city centre, a pint of ale (4.3%, so not rocket fuel at all) was £6.50 in a suburban pub.

Carnmore

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124030219#Comment_124030219

Cod and chips was €19.95 as stated.

The small plate wasn’t satiating.

IPA is no more expensive than other beers.

Mrs OBumble

Minimum wage is over €14 an hour come January. That's a 4.8% increase in 1 year. Plus pension auto enrolment with an employer contribution.

The cost has to come from somewhere.

T-Maxx

Some places are pretty sneaky when it comes to advertising, for example cod & chips 16.95, small print (Monday 1-2pm only, all other times 19.95).

JupiterKid

The general cost of living in Dublin is exorbitant, not just restricted to eating out.

Unless you earn a big salary, living in Dublin is now a real struggle. The quality of life in the city has been in serious decline for the past few years.

Dublin is a city that I like less and less with each passing year.

McGrath5

Are we overdue another Dublin bashing thread?

Padre_Pio

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124030703#Comment_124030703

Min wage is up 50% since 2018, plus an extra bank holiday.

It's also used as a benchmark where a lot of peoples would be earning €X above min wage, so increases affect those employees too.

John_Rambo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124030108#Comment_124030108

Thankfully there's plenty of cheap eat options in Dublin unlike other parts of the country making it the cheapest place to eat in the country.

omicron

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124031942#Comment_124031942

Plus statutory sick pay, increased employer PRSI rates and now compulsory employer pension contributions.

Effectively cost of employing someone has doubled in about 7 years.

However people can obviously afford to pay it. Everywhere serving food is busy, there's more choice than ever, can't get a dinner reservation in any sort of reasonable time frame.

dunnerc

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124031021#Comment_124031021

And another Dublin bashing thread😏

road_high

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124030222#Comment_124030222

prices in England are similar or worse to Ireland and usually worse quality in my experience

magicbastarder

I should point out that before we arrived, that same pub was doing some drinks for £3 a pint for a few hours in the afternoon. Thatchers cider and a beer of some description.

Trampas

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124031021#Comment_124031021

And outside of Dublin it’s cheaper? Apart from property the price of break and milk etc is the same all around the country if not more as not everyone has a SuperValu, dunnes etc so more than likely buying from a spar etc so paying more

Rocket_GD

In Belfast at the weekend, went on a bit of a pub crawl, didn’t get a pint cheaper than £6.

Pizzas were £16.

Prices were basically on par with Dublin everywhere we went.

Francis McM

Was in Liverpool city last year, the group I was with enjoyed pints @ £3 each.

Some smaller towns can be cheaper. https://www.thesun.ie/travel/15429039/cheapest-wetherspoons-pubs-pints-99p-list-towns/

Cheaper to get a Ryanair flight than buy a round of drinks in Dublin.

silliussoddius

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124031021#Comment_124031021

Never mind working in Dublin, I don’t know how students do it.

tallaghtfornia

Dub myself and gave up going into that city long ago unless I have the misfortune to have to travel through it. Don't wont to go into bashing it as that's another story.. that aside I just don't find value for money anymore when it comes to restaurants / bars have no issue paying a reasonable price for a reasonable product and service but the quality and service is not there.. anyway I'm sure its still packed most nights with people willing to pay the prices.. just my tuppence worth.

littlefeet

Anywhere popular in and around the city center and Dublin 2 is going to be expensive for food and drink, but because of the competition, you can do alright price-wise if you do a bit of research.

littlefeet

There is a pub on South Ann St where a pint of Guinness is €7, and on Camden St for €6.50.

Geuze

There are three pubs in central Dublin facing the same costs of energy, rates and labour as other pubs, selling pints of beer from €2.60, profitably.

Irish pub chains also get bulk volume discounts, but do not pass them onto the customer.

littlefeet

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124034619#Comment_124034619

Curious, where would you get a pint for 2.60, in Dublin, a good pub is a profitable business

Geuze

The three Spoons pubs.

The Silver Penny, Abbey street

The South Strand

The Keaven Port, Camden street

€2.60 is the price of cask ale.

Geuze

It's €2.10 in the three Spoons pubs in the suburbs!!!

In 2025, it is possible to buy a pint of beer in a pub for €2.10.

In Swords, Blanchardstown and Dún Laoghaire.

Marty Bird

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124034678#Comment_124034678

Yeah and Carlsberg for €4.15 and Coors if that’s your fancy.

wally1990

Min wage 2018 9.55> 2026 wil be 14.15

2018 employee prsi 8.6%> Employer prsi is now 11.25%

Introduction of 5 paid sick days

2026 auto enrolment 1.5%

Extra public holiday for employees

Sugar tax was introduced

Electricity prices increase

Supplier costs increased

And so on and on

Margins are smaller, price increases happen

It's bloody expensive out there now to run a food business id imagine

John_Rambo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124033959#Comment_124033959

There's thousands of cheap eats in Dublin that students avail of and some are excellent. I got a stunning large Shawarma stuffed Pita in a really good restaurant for €12. If you're going to eat fish and chips and drink pints in Temple Bar and Duke street you're going to pay for it like you would in any tourist trap in a city.

Although that price for medium fish & chips looks off, as someone else pointed out it's usually €16.95 as does the Govindas price and the Duke's website claims it's €7.10 for an IPA.