Dublin can be an expensive place to go out for a meal. Trust me on this. Due to work commitments I eat out a lot.
Therefore I’m delighted to see that the Dine in Dublin week is coming back. From Monday next, October 12 to the 18, there’ll be 50 city centre restaurants taking part in the initiative offering people special rates of €25 or €30 per person for their three course dinner menus after 7pm. Yum!
The list of restaurants reads like any foodie’s dream. A lot in there are on my “would love to if I could afford it list” including Alex at The Conrad, Balzac, Bang Cafe, Café Novo, Chatham Brasserie, Ely CHQ, Ely Wine Bar, Fallon & Byrne, FXB, Gallaghers Boxty House, Hugos, Jaipur, Koh, Monty’s of Kathmandu and Tiger Becs.
For the first time too there’ll be a 10% discount off the lowest quoted accommodation rates in several 3, 4 and 5 star city centre hotels (list here), including the Camden Court and Hotel Isaacs, the Stillorgan Park Hotel and Radisson Blu and the Westbury, the Westin and Conrad.
Last year apparently over 17,500 people ate in participating restaurants during the course of the week, with the usual positive knock on effects for bars, theatres and the like. Hopefully with the addition of the hotels it will mean more people from outside Dublin can take part too.
I will miss it, arriving the 8th, flying home the 12th.
If I saw them running at me on O’Connell street, think I’d run the way ; )
Boston has a restaurant week twice a year with great deals as well.
I will just let everyone know I am avaiible to be brought out for dinner and if you play your cards right that 10% looks promising