Simply labelled The Kiosk, this café sits on a traffic island just at the Leeson St Bridge and anyone who travels into town via the N11 dual-carriage way is sure to recognise it. One can only assume it was dreamed up by some Georgian era architect as a peculiar folly.
Whoever dreamed the funny little place up sure did a good job. The shop front has a large round window facing the street, a permanent colourful awning and it's current proprietors have extended it's tiny interior with an outdoor seating area.
The clientele are mostly bicycle and motorcycle couriers, who, if I may digress, have always reminded me of modern day pirates. The parallels are uncanny when you break it down - a cavalier attitude to laws governing transportation, transporting cargo in lieu of sanctioned government organisations, having dreadlocks, having tattoos, carrying a cutlass ... see? Exactly the same.
Anyway, more on pirates later, four stars for The Kiosk: mysteriously positioned, mysteriously named and frequented by mysterious cyclist types The Kiosk is really unique and well worth a visit for the altogether ponderous experience that it is. read more