Saturday tour of Dublin

Woke up pretty early this morning so decided to go for breakfast rather than lunch... 

Chose Hatch & Sons at The Little Museum of Dublin on St. Stephen's Green. 

Walk down the external steps into the basement of 15 St. Stephen's Green into a v cute little courtyard. 

Really old fashioned fireplace takes centre stage as you walk in the door (you can just about make it out in the above photo!) and an entrance that's looks like it should be the front of someone's house leads you to another seating area.  It looks like a house drawn by a child as they imagine a house with windows on either side of the door.. Afraid my fiancé refused to take a photo to share as I couldn't get a good angle from my seat but if you decide to visit you'll see what I mean.

The all day menu... 

We got a pot of filter coffee. I ordered the bakers basket (brown soda bread, scone & half a blaa - all toasted & served with butter and jam or marmalade).Fiancé ordered porridge and we (rather boldly) decided to have dessert at breakfast and ordered an apple streusel cake! 

Left there & visited Sheridan's cheesemongers on South Anne Street to pick up some cheddar for a cheese & charcuterie board we'll be trying next Saturday evening. This place is amazing. They have a wonderful selection of cheeses (obv!) along with chutneys, relishes, wine, crackers and a small butchers / charcuterie place. The smells are unbelievable and if you like cheese you can't miss a visit here!

Onto Arnotts on Henry St then for a quick visit to Wines Direct for a bottle of bubbles. Lovely spot in the basement of Arnotts (Abbey St side) 

Walked across the Ha'penny bridge then into Temple Bar for a stop into Roasted Brown (Curved Street where Filmbase is and not too far from the Wall of Fame) to pick up some new beans for the (space age) bean to cupcoffee machine..

I love the space here!! Think it's how Temple Bar should be seen this morning - rather than the sights of many business owners having to clean the streets after another messy Friday night...!

From Roasted Brown we walked to Fallon & Byrne on Exchequer Street so I could pick up some bread to go with Italian Meatballs I got in James Whelan Butchers at Avoca Kilmacanogue last week. This is what you now see when you walk in the door and I think it's impressive. Bread induced drool may be a possibility!! (I chose a Ciabatta in case you're wondering) 

And as I may have mentioned I am a massive fan of The Cupcake Bloke!!! Even though I had two yesterday thanks to my fiancé picking some up while he was in town I couldn't resist another visit to try out more of the Valentine's Day 

Here are the ones we had yesterday...

Red Velvet

Chocolate / last Rolo

Coffee and Amaretto

 

Today's view 

As much as I enjoyed the red velvet and chocolate ones yesterday I decided I'd attempt as many flavours as possible so today we've picked up vanilla, raspberry, blueberry (gluten free), cookies and cream and another coffee and amaretto one! 

Last stop was Blackrock cellar to pick up some beer for the IRE v ITA six nations game this afternoon. Picked up a bottle of Founders Big Lushious (Rasbperry &Chocolate  stout) to share when we're munching chipsticks ☺️

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