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Café Irie
Categories: Food Coffee & Tea Restaurants Sandwiches Coffee & Tea, Sandwiches [Edit]
11 Fownes StTemple Bar
Dublin 2
(01) 6725090
- Hours:
Mon-Sat 9:00 - 20:00
Sun 9:00 - 19:30
- Good for Children:
- Yes
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Price Range:
-
€€
- Takes Reservations:
- No
- Delivery:
- No
- Take Away:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Wi-Fi:
- No
- Good For:
- Lunch
- Alcohol:
- Beer & Wine Only
- Noise Level:
- Average
- Ambience:
- Casual
- Has TV:
- No
- Caters:
- No
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- No
13 reviews for Café Irie
13 reviews in English
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Review from Peter K.
15/1/2012
Great little spot tucked away upstairs of a vintage store.
The ladies that work there are super nice and the wifi is strong and dependable. The crowd is mixed from intellectuals to young American girls sitting for coffee to Irish locals looking to catch up with each other.
Try the chicken/bacon/avacado sandwich. SO GOOD. Packs huge flavor in a perfectly toasted brown bread. The tomato soup was a bit grainy, coulda used an extra pass through the china cap but all in all great flavors. One of my favorite places to escape the touristy madness of Temple Bar. -
Review from Dave H.
13/2/2012 2 Check-ins Here
There's a scene in virtually every zombie movie that reminds me of Temple Bar. Early on, a couple will be out gallivanting and spot a shambling, groaning character in a poorly lit and conveniently located alley-way. "Just some harmless drunk" one will say to the other before getting their face eaten.
Temple Bar isn't necessarily as dangerous as a zombie apocolypse, but it does start to resemble one after a certain hour. So it's a good thing that there are places like Café Irie that let you escape. Access to the café is through a door so flimsy a newborn could reduce it to splinters, upstairs from a vintage shop. Getting above the action of Temple Bar makes this a pretty serene spot, the rastafarian decor and wonky furniture only add to the charm.
Food-wise, the selection is pretty good. Soups and sandwiches with some nice combinations. There's a couple of desserts as well, but I think the place is more suited for lunchtime crowds. The friendly service and relaxing surroundings make it a good spot if you've time to waste in the area. -
Review from Gavin M.
A friend of mine brought me here for coffee a few weeks ago and was so taken by the hidden gem that myself and the wife went for Sunday brunch. Great value (can quite remember exactly how much) and so nice I uploaded a pic and sent it to my mates to make them jealous!
Tasty coffee too.
Will be back
Om nom nom nom!Listed in: Best Brunch
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Review from lily b.
Dublin
12/11/2011
i love this little place
the staff are friendly, the cakes and coffee are great.
its got a good vibe and i really like the location in the heart of temple bar
its an oldie but a goodie -
Review from Emma H.
Dublin
3/9/2011
I only recently discovered Cafe Irie and was brought here by my sister. I always visit Lucy's Lounge whenever I'm in town and have found Cafe Irie to be my new pit stop - I come to Lucy's to do a spot of shopping and then have a nice cheese, tomato and pesto paninni upstairs in the cafe. This place is lovely, it really is. The atmosphere is nice and it feels homely - not your average cafe. There are very few cafes I have found where you don't want to leave and Cafe Irie is one of them. I don't have a bad word to say about this place really, apart from the fact that the food takes a little bit long to arrive and there is only one waitress. It is small but quaint but I wouldn't suggest going here on a Saturday because it is unlikely that you will get a space to sit. It is a very intimate place and definitely one for the arty types. It is quite quiet apart from the sound of the odd person talking, reggae music and the sound of the tattoo needle etching away into people's bodies upstairs from the cafe.
Overall, a great place to come for lunch. The food is nice and great value. -
Review from Jo M.
17/6/2009
Cute, brightly coloured cafe in the heart of Temple Bar. Set upstairs above clothes shops (not the easiest to find!), this cafe offers friendly service, yummy, generous meals and a laid-back setting.
Try the pesto chicken salad - fresh, healthy, and big enough to share. The pesto is very good, and the walnuts are an interesting addition. For dessert you can't go past the carrot cake, which is also served in large portions.
This is the kind of place you could imagine sitting for an entire afternoon, breathing in the serenity while the madness carries on in the Temple Bar cobblestones below.
We appreciated the extra touches of smiley-faced spoons (like something you would have used as a child), sweets on departure and the posters of Dublin goings-on on the walls.
They have some coffee & cake/lunch & coffee specials that are great value for money if you're there before 6pm.
Take a good book along and settle in for an afternoon of 'me' time. -
Review from Sharon V.
Newbridge, Co. Kildare
11/3/2010 ROTD 21/3/2010
A posh friend took us to Cafe Irie in our first year of college, then proceeded to tell us that we were pronouncing "Irie" wrong. We ditched her but continue to favour Cafe Irie, a small, Jamaican-style, eclectically decorated haven.
According to http://urbandictionary..., in Rastafarian vocab "Irie" means "to be at total peace with your current state of being. The way you feel when you have no worries."
Which is exactly how you are when you're stuffing the BEST and most enormous club sandwich on toasted walnut bread into your gob, while sipping on a large cafe-au-lait and chatting to one of your closest friends.
"Everyting is irie mon..." -
Review from Alexandra M.
Dublin
21/7/2009 2 photos
Cafe Irie is a delightful spot to escape the noise of Temple Bar. Located above the eccentric clothing store Sesi, there's only about 10 tables but it's never too packed and if you're lucky, you can sit by the window and people watch.
What makes this cafe so charming is the staff and decor. The people who work here are very relaxed and you never feel pressured to leave. The cafe is decorated with artfully mismatched plastic tables clothes. Posters advertise local events and add colour to the yellow walls. There's even a tacky Christmas tree that blinks in the corner fireplace. In short, the cafe has tons of personality which is what keeps people coming back for more. -
Review from David D.
Dublin
8/10/2009
This place has a real cosy atmosphere.... it has a huge menu with a enormously huge selection of wraps and paninis....sandwiches too.
There are not many words to describe the coffee... and perhaps it depends on how much you want it though many people would argue that this place does some of the best... it is siply delicious.
While it is a little tucked away up above the hustle and bustle... you can find yourself in a nice spot looking down over temple bar and all the stuff that happens there... which can be nice after a long day shopping -
Review from Annie L.
18/7/2009 1 photo
Jo really summed up the atmosphere of the place with her review. It's a quirky little place, little being the operative word.
A friend took me here for lunch, the view of the noise mecca that is Temple Bar is excellent if you can get a window seat.
My sandwich on ciabatta bread was very tasty and reasonably priced, the coffee was large and strong. The wooden floors are well worn and the place has a lived in character.
I did feel like I was playing a game of sardines at times. I am all for brother and sisterly love but sometimes I don't want to hear about a stranger's drama or feel the need to consciously lower my voice for privacy sake.
Great place to chill alone or if you are fluent in sign language. -
Review from Katie-Ann M.
Dublin
11/11/2009
Café Irie is located above one of my favourite shops in Dublin, Lucy's. Lucy's is a very unique shop selling oddly idiosyncratic clothes and accessories to the distinctive, chic city dweller. This attitude is carried through to an extent when it comes to the café upstairs. The décor is colourful and quirky, with mismatched ceramics, spoons that feature a smiley face on the handle and everyone is given a separate terracotta plate to place their used teabags on. It is these little things that are individual to the café that make it stand out.
I enjoyed a broccoli and goats cheese soup with tomato bread and lemon green tea which altogether came to €7.55. The soup was delivered very swiftly and I found everything from the flavoursome goats cheese with a pleasing aftertaste to the zesty tea scrumptious. However, two of my friends that I was with both ordered the same pizza, the first arriving a tardy 15mins after my soup and the second arriving a whole 10mins after that. I had already polished off mine by the time they were tucking into theirs, creating a very disjointed eating experience. By their own admission the pizzas were yummy and substantial, with one of my friends asking if he could take two of his left-over slices home in a doggy bag but I cannot help but feel disappointed by the disorderly way in which the food was delivered meaning the ensuing consumption was not coherent and hence the overall ambience at the table tainted. Other than that the lady waiting on the entire restaurant was sweet-natured and relatively organized, considering she had four tables at once to wait on I wouldn't doubt she was doing her best.
The eccentricity the café exudes is exceedingly charming and I wouldn't hesitate to return despite the tardy pizza scenario owing to the food otherwise being markedly flavoursome and the general décor and ambience exceedingly groovy as well as on the same wavelength as the wide-ranging idiosyncratic disposition of Temple Bar. Moreover, the chap on the table next to me ordered a club sandwich which looked as mammoth in size as I'm guessing it was in flavour making me want to go back pronto to devour one of my own. -
Review from Kelley H.
17/12/2010
I ate here with my Fiance on our recent trip to Dublin. I am vegan and he somehow remembered stumbling across this little cafe with vegetarian food. I had the Vegan Club Sandwich. OH HOLY GOD. It was so good. Giant. We split it and it was still a ton of food. Whatever onion jam was on it was amazing. I wish I lived closer than 4,000 miles away from Cafe Irie!
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Review from carmen m.
7/9/2009
while i appreciate the quirkiness of this cafe i found it to be very overpriced and the food was just okay. i ordered the bagel with hummus and sun dried tomato which was decent but oily. my husband ordered a breakfast wrap of scrambled eggs which was nothing special either. the coffee was pretty lousy.
