PTG/Rocky/CityGuide

Cafes/Coffee Shops

• Keoghs Cafe, for fresh pastries and breakfast
• Bewley's Café

Local Bars

• Cusack's Pub
• Temple Bar area
• The Stag's Head pub, pub & Irish music scene
• McDaids Pub, once the city morgue that was later converted into a chapel

Open Late:

• McGowan's
• 37 Dawson Street, late night whiskey bar and restaurant
• Coppers (a.k.a. Copperface Jacks), a local institution and the best place to meet the future nurses and gardai (police) of this fine nation. Note for the faint hearted, $

Cocktail bars and restaurants

• Café en Seine, really pretty interior
• Xico, Mexican-styled "party cavern", good food and cocktails
• Alfies, Dakota, cocktail bars with excellent menus
• Fade Street Social, relaxed yet classy, good gin menu

Dinner

Group-friendly suggestions:

• The Boxty House
• The Farm
• The Vintage Kitchen
• P. Mac's, gastropub with large tables equipped with board games!
• The Old Mill Restaurant, seafood & wine bar
• The Parnell Heritage Bar & Grill
• Kingfisher, also known for their breakfast and brunch
• Elephant & Castle, where we've heard the chicken wings are a must-try
• Bunsen, best burgers in Dublin

Small-group-friendly suggestions:

• Jewel in the Crown, self identifies as the best Indian food in Dublin, I disagree, perhaps the tandori, which I didn't have, is the basis of their assertion
• Pickle, Indian food, would return

Transportation

From the airport

• aircoach route 700 operates every 15 minutes to Drumcondra railway station.

Things to see/do in Dublin

• Book of Kells, which is Ireland's national treasure, housed in the beautiful library at Trinity College
• Dublinia Museum, focused on Viking and Medieval things
• St. Stephen's Green, Ireland's best known Victorian public park
• St. Patrick's Cathedral, the National Cathedral of the Church of Ireland and is the largest Cathedral in the country
• The Brazen Head Pub, officially Ireland's oldest pub
• Guinness Storehouse Tour, home of Guinness
• Old Jameson Distillery, the home of Jameson Irish Whiskey
• Fab Food Trails Food Tour, explore Dublin's best food on a small group tour
• Creative Quarter, shops and restaurants south of the Temple Bar area