Lunch guide
Note that smoking is banned in all restaurants, cafes and pubs in Ireland.
Places in the immediate vicinity of Trinity College
On campus, you can find the Buttery in the dining hall building on the south side of Front Square; the Pav in the pavillion adjoining the cricket field; and cafes in the Hamilton and Arts buildings (where the parallel and plenary sessions are, respectively). All provide very basic fare. There are a number of cafes and lunch places on Nassau Street (the street on the southern perimeter of College) and adjoining streets; some good, some indifferent and some best avoided. The following is far from an exhaustive list.
- Fitzer's, the National Gallery
- Clare St (continuation of Nassau St, near the back of College)
- There is a restaurant serving hot and cold lunches downstairs, and a café serving sandwiches, pastry and coffee upstairs. Both have fast service, reasonable food and ample seating.
- Kilkenny Design
- Nassau St
- Lunch place upstairs with reasonably good panini and a hot food counter. It can be very full at times.
- Dunnes & Crescenzi
- South Frederick Street (off Nassau St)
- Italian Enoteca. It can be quite full, but the turnaround is usually quite fast.
- Café Crèpe
- Nassau St
- Nice hot sandwiches and of course crepes
- Caffe di Napoli
- Westland Row (back of College)
- Italian takeaway (panini, foccacia, pasta, etc). A favourite place among the local organisers, partly because it is just across the road from the maths department, but also because the food and coffee is actually good.
- West Coast Coffee
- Lincoln Place (back of College)
- A favoured place among some locals because of its proximity and post-5pm 2-for-1 pastry deals, they also do panini and sandwiches for lunch.
- Nude
- Suffolk St (continuation of Nassau near the front of College)
- Healthy food
- Avoca
- Upstairs in the shop on Suffolk Street
- Good food, can get busy at lunchtime
- Tri-D
- Dawson Street
- If you want to practice your Gaeilge skills
- The Gingerman
- Fenian Street (back of College)
- Quite decent pub food
- Kennedy's
- Westland Row
- Pub food
- O'Neill's
- Pearse Street
- Pub food
- O'Neill's
- Suffolk Street
- A large pub with a variety of food
- Take 5
- Lincoln Place
- If all else fails
Places somewhat further away
Within 15 minutes walk of Trinity College you will find a large number of restaurants and cafes. If you walk from College in a westerly or south-southwesterly direction, you are likely to find something. The main areas are Wicklow/Exchequer/St Andrew's/South William Street (off the bottom of Grafton Street), South Anne Street (between Dawson and Grafton Street), Clarendon Market/South William Street (off the top of Grafton Street) and, of course, Temple Bar. Below are some of the better places.- Gotham Cafe
- South Anne St
- Mixed cuisine
- Café-en-Seine
- Dawson St
- Stylish and trendy cafe by day and pub by night
- Café Bar Deli
- Bewley's, Grafton St
- The newest and largest of this popular chain. There is also a cafe on South Great Georges St
- Mackerel
- Bewley's, Grafton St
- Good seafood, by the same people who run Café Bar Deli
- Juice
- Great Sth Georges St
- Vegetarian
- Busyfeet and Coco's
- Corner Clarendon Mkt/William St (Near St Stephen's Green shopping centre)
- Organic, wholemeal bread and all that stuff
- Cafe Fresh
- Powerscourt shopping centre
- Vegetarian