Pint of Plain for Mylunch please.

Whether you think Arthur’s Day is a cynical marketing ploy, or a great excuse to toast an Irish hero, one thing is for sure, it’s an enjoyable event, and mylunch and our retailers really got in to the spirit of things this year!

First of all we gave one lucky user five free tickets to see Fight Like Apes play a storming set in Sinnotts Bar. Big congrats to Linda Berrigan and her 4 friends who by all accounts had a great night, and even got a surprise performance from Manic Street Preachers into the bargain! (By the way, check out Sinnotts new lunch voucher, which gives you a free soft drink with your lunch main, and no you can’t exchange it for a pint of the black stuff!)

They say you can’t beat a good hearty lunch for a bit of soakage, and in memorial of Mr Guinness, many of the menus which we got in yesterday also had a twist of the black stuff! JL’s Cafe on Abbey Street had a special quick lunch of a Beef and Guinness Pie for only €6 (this lunch deal runs daily with a different dish too!), while on the other side of town, The Barge did the same.

Lagoona Bar in the IFSC kindly offered mylunch users a pint and a beef and Guinness stew for only 10 quid, (see their page for another voucher!) and Q Bar were enticing a lunch tipple with €3 pints all day!

Burritos and Blues put a Mexican twist on the old Irish drink with it’s delicious Steak and Guinness burrito for only €7, which was very tasty we can tell you, as is everything their menu! Pacinos on Suffolk Street provided the dessert for the party with specially made Guinness Ice Cream for the day, and staying on sweet things, that lovely cupcake and tasty lunch purveyor Lolly and Cooks crowned the mylunch office’s week with a special delivery of Guinness inspired cupcakes, which also flew out the door of Georges Street Arcade all day! These were so popular, and scoffed so quick that we didn’t have time to even take a picture! (See how much we really love food!)
However, we will be sure to take one the next time... (hint hint! :))

And so the big mans 251st came to pass, with rain not dampening revellers spirits, and all we can say is

To Martha Arthur!! To Mylunch!


(Oh and we will still be craving those cupcakes until next year!)

What is the Best Value Sandwich Around?

mylunch.ie is about providing consumers information on the best value lunch available across restaurants, cafés, bars & sandwich shops, but we want you to help us out to; we want your opinions. This week up for discussion is:

What is the best value sandwich around?


The Contenders:
• The SPAR, Chicken Fillet Roll
• The Subway 6’' Meatball Marinara Sub
• O’Briens Triple Decker
• The Munchies Chicken Woopie
• Fallon & Byrne’s Ultimate Club Sandwich

All are signature classics of these five popular Dublin lunch venues but which offers the best bite for your buck? We want to your opinion:


•The Chicken Fillet Roll, the staple of many a student diet. A white or brown bread roll containing a hot sliced breaded chicken fillet generally combined with mayo & lettuce. Prepared quickly and normally quite filling, and it has added bonus of being considered satisfactory as a hot meal intake by many.
€1.99 SPAR Dame Street

•The Meatball Sub, tender Meatballs in a tomato sauce with any combination of cheese, salad & dressing & served on a choice of breads. Availing of the Sub of the Day deal (Tuesdays €2.99, FYI) it is even greater value. But do you need to get a Footlong Sub to satisfy your hunger?
€3.99 Subway Baggot Street

•The Chicken & Bacon Triple Decker Sandwich, a multi-layered mouthful that can just about hold the wide variety of complementary ingredients (chicken, bacon, cheese, coleslaw, onions…). Filling but can be expensive (particularly with an extra charge if you want the bread toasted) but still deemed great value and a popular lunchtime favourite.
€5.65 generally

•The Chicken Woopie, Munchies' best known sandwich, contains roast chicken, melted cheddar hot chilli mayonnaise, lettuce tomato & ballymaloe relish combined in a way that does the sandwich’s celebratory name justice. Tasty but maybe not as filling as some of the other contenders.
€5.40 Munchies, South William Street

•The Ultimate Club, a gastronomic gourmet delight; chicken, bacon, tomato and a good helping of mayo, with the option of having it toasted. A tad pricey at €6.25 but the €7 soup & sandwich offer available at Fallon & Byrne makes it much better value.


These are just a few sample contenders but if you can think of any others to rival these 5 that have become so widely popular let us know what they are and why they are great lunch value.