Come Here To Me!

A collection of articles from Come Here To Me! on the history of restaurants, pubs, ethnic food and breweries in Dublin.

The Taj Mahal (Clare Street side) in 1979. Credit – Dublin City Photographic Collection

Food:

Restaurant advertisements from the 1983 Dublin Theatre Festival Guide

Soyer’s Soup Kitchen, 1847

1930’s advertisement for The Indian Store, Dame Street

The history of McDonalds and Dublin.

Restaurant listings and advertisements from 1960′s Dublin

The Red Bank Restaurant – ‘Irish Nazi watering hole’

Notes on the history of Lebanese restaurants in Dublin

Notes on the history of Vegetarianism in Dublin Pt. I (1866 – 1922) & Pt. II (1933 – 1996)

Notes on the history of Indian restaurants in Dublin

Dublin’s first pizzerias

Dublin’s first Italian restaurants (1938 – 1963)

Dublin’s first Chinese restaurants (1956 – mid 1960s)

The Manhattan and other late night eateries

Jim Fitzpatrick murals in Captain Americas

Di Mascio’s chipper in 1938

Molly Tansey’s Mayfair Café and follow up

The Crimean Banquet, October 22nd 1856

James Downey serving a pint to one of his regulars in Downey’s, Dun Laoghaire (16 February 1948)

Drink:

Bona-Fides, Kips and Early-Houses

The Dublin pub strike that lasted fourteen years

Dublin’s Historic Breweries: Watkins’ of Ardee Street

1977 Dublin pub reviews

The 1875 Liberties Whiskey Fire

Cocktails in 1930s Dublin

Some 18th century Temple Bar taverns

Dublin pubs and the ‘Boycott Bass’ campaign (1932/1933)

The Roe Distillery and Saint Patrick’s Tower