Easy parking, near M50 , exit 10 / R838 ,so you can relax, shop, and fill your car with all you…read moreneed for Asian cooking

Another shining beacon of all that is right about Dublin at the moment. Situated next to two closed…read moreand boarded up old shop fronts, but across from such funksters as the Bernard Shaw and Hang Tough, is Picado. Thoroughly modern, designed with clean lines, bright colours, and a distinct lack of the traditional Mexican decor we've come to expect, yet still just as inviting. Lily and her gang import everything sold in the shop directly from Mexico. Handpicked, thought through and tested for quality, this is the real deal. I got myself some Luchito honey and salsa with rare smoked Mexican chillies. My Lord. It's good. The honey also has chillies in it. It's ridiculous, I've gone through half a jar in two days. They also do small cooking classes in here which I've yet to try, but they could be anything from salsas to tomales to tortillas etc. If you're in the neighbourhood, make sure to call in. Lilly is only bleedin lovely to chat with, and if you're having a dinner party and want to be a bit smug about it, she'll sort you out with some serious ingredients and instructions for them too.

There's nothing better than being half Mexican, living across the world from Mexico, and living a…read morestone's throw from a Mexican culinary shop! There are salsas, tortillas, hot sauces, chicharones, masa harina, and lots more of this and that that one would want for cooking it up Mexican style. Also, there are classes! All this in a lovely, quaint, and super clean neighborhood shop. The owner is from Mexico and she knows her stuff. And, she's super friendly too. Go on in and chat it up with her. She'll answer any of your questions about the sweet eats she has on her shelves. Now, my compadres, if you've got your geography down, we're -not- a stone's throw from Mexico so the importing prices will reflect that. But, if you love cooking Mexican food, these gems are worth the sticker price and they come straight from their Madre Land. My Rick Bayless cookbook thanks Picado for shelving the goods!

Polonia was if not the first then certainly one of the firse Eastern European food stores in the…read morecity, at the time of opening it was such a strange beast I dared not enter its doors but since then I have plucked up the courage and wandered to feast my eyes on the array of strange yet familiar products offered. The staff are great fun and usually have a smart comment for me about reading the array of newspapers from Poland, Latvia and Lithonia - none of which I can of course read. It doesn't matter, I do the same thing I do with the Irish Times... look at the pictures and fill in the crossword with bad words I learned when I was in skool

In this little shop you will find mainly eastern European products. There is several similar stores…read morelike them around the country. I usually just try out their breads.

Not a great shop to go to if you wanna save money. Always look at the prices on the machine because…read morethey like to try double charging or more to see if they can rip you off. I was in there to get a carton of juice For 2 Euro and the price Came up on the machine as 5 Euro so I said He'll no And left. avoid this shop or any others with the same name.

I really love this tiny supermarket. It's pretty tiny but it's cram packed with Polish favourites…read morefrom the motherland ....a comforting reminder of home. Being Polish myself I have a real nostalgia for Polish food. Polonez definitely satisfies my nostalgia, selling jars of pickled gherkins, Wedel chocolate, Ptasie Mleczko (yum!) Polish bread and dairy products such as butter and cream cheese - twarog among many other food items. If you're Polish (even by a fraction!), like Polish food, or just want to try grocery shopping with a difference , I'd definitely recommend Polonez.

Cute little new enough shop just on a corner on Capel St. I'm not very well qualified to talk about…read moreBrazilian shops, but it looks like it has a nice selection, even though it's tiny. I saw a sign outside for fresh churros which I haven't tried yet but you can get them delivered for a party or whatever which sounds pretty sweet. I also noticed that they have international money transfer services, so a bit of a one-stop shop I guess!

this is simply the BEST greengrocer in the city. As well as carrying an exquisite range of fancy…read morethings, their fresh fruit & veg are top notch, coffee is the best on the street & always a friendly face. can say from experience that they make amazing gift hampers too wishing this gorgeous family business all the very best

The friendliest, best stocked fruit, veg and well, everything shop in Dublin. All sorts of…read morenon-fruit-n-veg - oils and vinegars, beautiful tinned tomatoes, cheeses, pizza bases, yogurt, dried fruit and pulses - it's an aladdin's cave for cooks! And real, friendly and knowledgable staff, always on for a chat or a story.

Thanks to well-stocked places like Alto Foods on Middle Abbey Street, I'm getting a definite taste…read morefor Eastern groceries. From lotions and deodorants or teen-pop magazines, to fresh herbs, fruits and pre-packed dinner items, there's plenty in here to generously stock a Filipino kitchen. On the downside the store is a bit cramped, and towards the back things can get awkward as you try to dance or dodge around other customers in the narrow back alcove. There's plenty of sweets, syrupy canned fruit juice and even sweeter tinned fruit to be had, plus instant chocolate oatmeal, flan mixes... and then there's Alto's wall of hot sauce. While I haven't worked up the bravery to try the bottle with the crying man with his tongue tied around the lettering (when turning it over a dark oil of what I can only think of as liquid Scoville), I'm getting there.

If like me you have a weakness for processed concentrated carbohydrates, you really should start…read moreshopping in Alto Food. If you like your noodles, you should jump on the buying noodles in 5 kilo blocks wagon. As well as noodles, Alto Food does stuff like speciality veg, fruit and that freaky dried fish stuff that people of the western world are terrified to try. So you may end up with horrendous back pain, but at least you won't need to buy rice for a few months.

Some of you may remember my frustrated attempts to locate some…read morenuts(http://www.yelp.co.uk/topic/dublin-big-bag-of-nuts). After several expeditions to the various asian and health food shops around Dublin 2 and 8 I was beginning to lose hope. Everything I saw was either boring, tiny, loaded with sugar or grossly overpriced. That was, until I found this strange little shop beside the polyclinic. Four hundred grams of mixed nuts with no salt, sugar, peanuts or raisons. Four ninety nine. Still a little more than I'd like to pay, but throw in a tray of thirty eggs for four fifty and you've got a deal. Yes, thirty. Thirty eggs. It's the fat man's equivalent of asking 'what can you do me for cash?'. I now subsist on a diet made up entirely of nuts and eggs. I call it the Steve McQueen.

shouts out to the watermelon sweets and shouts out to the lollipops…read more shouts out to the 85c cheesy popcorn shouts out to the main boiis shouts out to Jose

I walked here from my Airbnb today and really enjoyed myself. We got there when it opened, so…read morethere was no line and we didn't have to wait long for anything at all. The food was really good. I had the granola and my friend had the French toast. Would recommend either. The coffee and tea were also good. Overall, just a really nice place. The price seemed pretty standard from what we've seen so far.

neighborhood spot for breakfast & lunch. cute neighborhood near Dublin City U campus and Croke…read morePark. short breakfast menu with some pastry selections. wife chose a croissant to begin and i picked a scone with butter/jam/whipped cream. the scone was listed as served warm and came barely above room temp. it was also quite dry and crumbled when touched by a knife. but the addition of jam and cream made the pieces pretty tasty. the croissant was significantly better, flaky and fresh. with jam even better. the house organic granola my wife chose was declared pretty bland even with the berries, mint, and yogurt added. a drizzle of honey did a lot to improve the taste. my choice of eggs benedict was intriguing as it was listed as using Parma Ham-a type of prosciutto-instead of a more traditional ham. unfortunately the execution didn't meet expectations. the ham, instead of being sliced and soft, was similar to a chipped beef, crisp and in little chunks. it was piled on one side of the bread without egg or hollandaise. the egg was perched on the other side, nicely poached but covered in the blandest hollandaise i've ever tasted. a good dash of pepper helped but between the meat and the sauce it wasn't a good choice. also the "muffin" it was served on was really dry. our service, while attentive, was made a bit difficult by a communication barrier with the server who i believe did not have English as their first language. she was trying very hard though. maybe another day and another meal-lunch or brunch-would be different but on this day we left disappointed.