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Epicurean Food Hall

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  • 29-04-2004 9:59pm
    #1
    Skr4wny
    Registered Users Posts: 229 ✭✭


    Never knew this place existed until I read about it here as I would seldomly be down around Liffey St. Had a day off today though and I went down to check it out. All I can say is it's the dogs bollocks!! Couldn't get over the variety of different places to eat from, and the variety of food on offer.. Will definitely be making sure to pop down again when ever I get a chance.
    Had a lovely pannini from La Corte there today. Still can't believe I never knew about the place.


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    Sarsfield
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,359 ✭✭✭Sarsfield


    I know I'm in the minority here, but I don't like the place at all! Any food I've had there has been fine, but I find it a very uncomfortable place. And since Burdocks opened, the whole common area smells of fish & chips. And Lindens wins shop has gone too which is a shame. They had the very nicest staff and a few interesting wines.


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    dee mm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 62 ✭✭dee mm


    Yeah La Corte are pretty great really, but have to say I agree since Burdocks opened i cant spend much time there.


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    mambo
    Registered Users Posts: 697 ✭✭✭mambo


    There are 4 buffets (indian, italian, greek & chinese) operating in the Epicurean, and all 4 are charging EXACTLY the same prices, i.e.

    €9.50 for "all you can eat" (large plate)
    €7.00 for "one time only" (smaller plate)

    If there are separate companies, surely this hints that there is price fixing going on?

    Even if they are the same company, does appearing to trade as 4 separate buffets mean the same rule applies?


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    olaola
    Registered Users Posts: 4,139 ✭✭✭olaola


    LOVE La Corte & Taco Taco. Don't really go near any of the rest of them. Is Christophes still there? And It's Bagel moved to Arnotts.


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    Biff11
    Registered Users Posts: 86 ✭✭Biff11


    Christophes is gone.

    IMO the standard of food has gone downhill greatly in the last few years. It used to high quality fresh type food but now it's very processed unhealthy type place.


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    RoadRunner
    Registered Users Posts: 1,937 ✭✭✭RoadRunner


    taco taco is the best mexican food in ireland


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    Dubdude
    Registered Users Posts: 507 ✭✭✭Dubdude


    This place is awful, I was in it once and would never bother returning...


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    giftgrub
    Registered Users Posts: 1,309 ✭✭✭giftgrub


    Biff11 wrote: »
    Christophes is gone.

    IMO the standard of food has gone downhill greatly in the last few years. It used to high quality fresh type food but now it's very processed unhealthy type place.


    Totally agree with you. my work keeps me in the city center a lot and i always used to pop into the food hall for Christophe's. I kind of got to know him and the other fella Joe.

    The food hall just isn't the same anymore, it seems to offer the kind of food you'd throw into yourself at 4am after a feed of pints.

    Christophes up in smithfield is still as good though, was in there recently with the family


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    Saruman
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    RoadRunner wrote: »
    taco taco is the best mexican food in ireland
    No its not, its at my house :D

    Actually there is a stall at the Temple Bar food markets on Saturdays that does proper Mexican food and on Lord Edward street, opposite copper alley is possibly the best actual Mexican restaurant in Ireland. Mainly a lunch place though.


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    Gary ITR
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    Crepes and Creme was the best place in there. Not for the food, for the two girls that used to work there.......

    I worked on Liffey Street years ago and ate there all the time, not mad on it now at all


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    mambo
    Registered Users Posts: 697 ✭✭✭mambo


    giftgrub wrote: »
    The food hall just isn't the same anymore, it seems to offer the kind of food you'd throw into yourself at 4am after a feed of pints.

    Perhaps, but it's better than the food court in the nearby Jervis Centre, which is one fast food chain after another.


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    murrayp4
    Registered Users Posts: 969 ✭✭✭murrayp4


    Biff11 wrote: »
    Christophes is gone.

    IMO the standard of food has gone downhill greatly in the last few years. It used to high quality fresh type food but now it's very processed unhealthy type place.
    Completely agree----

    Cavistons: gone
    It's a Bagel: gone
    Christophes: gone

    Replaced by a chipper at the front door and a load of all you can eat buffets


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    Red Sleeping Beauty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,443 ✭✭✭Red Sleeping Beauty


    I'll echo the criticisms above. It's been steadily declining in the last 3/4 years. There's been so many open and then closed a short while later, what do you call them? eh... food shops? There was some place called Falafel but I only ever saw it open once, the place that does baked spuds has been about half a dozen other things lest even a wine bar!

    The Mexican place is gorgeous but their prices have gone up over the years and the quality necessarily hasn't. Lovely staff though. I'm assuming they're actually Mexican.


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