Twelve Months Later

The little blog that could has passed a milestone; today marks one year since we tapped fingertip to keyboard and typed the first fateful words that would begin our blogging journey…

Days in Dublin

Sometimes it’s easy not to miss Dublin, and Ireland in general, but there are frequent twinges of emotion that tug on our heartstrings, transport our minds back and tantalise our taste for the homeland. Neither of us grew up in Dublin city, but we  both grew up within short commutable distance. Since our teenage years, we’ve been delving into Dublin, exploring it and carving out our little crannies that we could crawl into and just get lost in for an afternoon or evening. Later we would live in separate parts of the city, before living together in the thick of the city centre prior to our move to London.

Dining in Dublin

Dine in Dublin is now in it’s fourth year, and to say it’s gone from strength to strength is a bit of a weak, meek understatement. We’ve taken advantage of the dedicated dining out week for the past two years. As it happens, one of our very first posts on this blog at the beginning of this year was for Camden Kitchen, where we ate their special DID menu.

Beginnings Before Blogging – Russell

Hi! Russell here with my beginnings and back story before we set up this blog. You can catch up on Patrick’s post (the first bit of this series) by clicking here….

Beginnings Before Blogging – Patrick

Patrick here this time, for my turn on a little behind the scenes, background story on me and my beginnings before this blog. Russell’s post, with snippets from his experience, and where he stands now (with some exciting news), can be read here. 

Eden Bar and Grill [Updated]

Edited and updated: Eden, what was once a staple of beautiful Meeting House Square in the heart of Dublin’s Temple Bar area, has recently gone through a bit of a shake-up. After a decade of service, the owners closed briefly, while secretly enlisting the help of celebrated, chef duo Yannick Van Aeken and Louise Bannon (formerly of Copenhagen’s NOMA) to develop something unique and new for a relaunch. The restaurant then re-branded as NEDE last year and won applause for it’s facelift.

Then it all came crashing down and quickly closed, while the celebrated chef duo severed all ties with the restaurant. It now lies eerily abandoned in one of the most prosperous and beautiful areas of the city. You only have to take a quick glance at the final few tweets of the restaurant’s Twitter account to begin to understand what was going on behind the scenes.

However, all hope is not lost. Eden had a second guise, within a property located on Dublin’s trendy South William Street, in the fast-growing Cultural Quarter of the city. Though it was created much later than the original Temple Bar location, this second Eden premises (now the sole location) is the Bar & Grill to the former’s Restaurant and is seemingly and unfortunately not as well known or talked about. It’s more casual and informal, but with a precise, and elegant attention to detail, throughout the service, food and design. What’s more, it certainly deserves to be talked about and experienced as completely separate from the  ‘Nede’ entity…