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MurdyWurdy

Nandos in DL is opening on the 25th September

stehyl15

MurdyWurdy wrote: »

Nandos in DL is opening on the 25th September

Could they not have taken any longer

Aard

stehyl15 wrote: »

Could they not have taken any longer

I'm sure they've done it as quickly as possible. It's hardly in their interests to delay.

errlloyd

Aard wrote: »

I'm sure they've done it as quickly as possible. It's hardly in their interests to delay.

MacDonalds in temple bar was built in about 15 minutes, Nandos in DL has taken like 9 months.

Larbre34

errlloyd wrote: »

MacDonalds in temple bar was built in about 15 minutes, Nandos in DL has taken like 9 months.

Nothing like that at all, its about 3 months since the hoarding went up around the old harbour bar

Mick Murdock

I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure they were working on it back in March as some friends of mine were visiting on St. Patricks Day and asked me what was being demolished..

stehyl15

Motion picture in dl has moved out to the main street beside the 2€ shop

errlloyd

Larbre34 wrote: »

Nothing like that at all, its about 3 months since the hoarding went up around the old harbour bar

Indeed there was obvious exaggeration on both ends of my post. But, and I say but. I heard of people getting job interviews there in June. And i certainly remember hoarding around April or March.

Anyone

stehyl15 wrote: »

Motion picture in dl has moved out to the main street beside the 2€ shop

Probably a good move, that shopping centre is just a graveyard for business's.

dublinman1990

Tabnabs wrote: »

Marks Models have moved from the top floor of the shopping centre to the ground floor. Hopefully they see enough increase in business.

That has moved to the middle floor of the shopping centre opposite O'Briens Sandwich Bar & the re-located "Images" store.

leemaree

There's three new shops opened in DL SC. One is called cosmetics beauty or somthing like that where the fish shop used to b for nibbling ur feet. The other one is where the sony centre used to b and it's is called my images. The last one is called Dizzile. I think. And Motion Picture is moved opposite Pennys

rubadub

MurdyWurdy wrote: »

There's a new butchers opened next to Tesco Ballybrack, where xtra vision was. There's some good deals and the meat we've eaten so far is nice

Still no 10 chicken fillets for €10 deal though!, I think they would clean up if they did it. There is no weight on most stuff so its quite hard to compare to tesco's prices, its also hard to compare their own packs easily. They had deals on chicken fillets, I think 6 for €7 and 10 for €12, the 6 works out cheapest per fillet.

They also quote in pounds, not sure if thats even legal, but I wonder if they are hoping people will round up and figure a pound of meat is 500g rather than 454g, so they would look more favourable than tesco. They could be shifting loads if they wanted, which would attract me more, knowing its likely to be fresher.

I see Deerings in Killiney shopping centre now have 5 fillets for €5, to match eurospars price.

uch

rubadub wrote: »

Still no 10 chicken fillets for €10 deal though!, I think they would clean up if they did it. There is no weight on most stuff so its quite hard to compare to tesco's prices, its also hard to compare their own packs easily. They had deals on chicken fillets, I think 6 for €7 and 10 for €12, the 6 works out cheapest per fillet.

They also quote in pounds, not sure if thats even legal, but I wonder if they are hoping people will round up and figure a pound of meat is 500g rather than 454g, so they would look more favourable than tesco. They could be shifting loads if they wanted, which would attract me more, knowing its likely to be fresher.

I see Deerings in Killiney shopping centre now have 5 fillets for €5, to match eurospars price.

We've bought meat here twice and on both occasions it had to be dumped, even the cat wouldn't eat it. Both packs well within BB date, but the stink off them when opened/cooked, don't know if it's cross contamination or what, but I won't be buying there ever again.

frash

uch wrote: »

We've bought meat here twice and on both occasions it had to be dumped, even the cat wouldn't eat it. Both packs well within BB date, but the stink off them when opened/cooked, don't know if it's cross contamination or what, but I won't be buying there ever again.

Did you say it to them?
Bought some marinated chicken from them a couple of days ago (my first purchase there) and it was lovely.

MurdyWurdy

Any meat I've bought from there has been lovely, as good as many other butchers. I've been impressed. They have a good new loyalty scheme too.

There's a similar butchers called discount meats or something like that opened in Bloomfields as well

Fratton Fred

MurdyWurdy wrote: »

Any meat I've bought from there has been lovely, as good as many other butchers. I've been impressed. They have a good new loyalty scheme too.

There's a similar butchers called discount meats or something like that opened in Bloomfields as well

I would call it a Shop that sells meat, rather than a butcher's Shop.

MurdyWurdy

Fratton Fred wrote: »

I would call it a Shop that sells meat, rather than a butcher's Shop.

True, there is no behind space with butchers, just shelves of pre packed meat. Good point

Fratton Fred

MurdyWurdy wrote: »

True, there is no behind space with butchers, just shelves of pre packed meat. Good point

I know it sounds a bit pedantic, bit those places aren't much more than pile it high sell it cheap meat counters, as opposed to a proper make/prepare it on site butchers.

SimonLynch

Mr simms sweets to open in The Square (Pavilion Swords and Dundalk too apparently)

frash

MurdyWurdy wrote: »

There's a similar butchers called discount meats or something like that opened in Bloomfields as well

The burgers in his "free burgers" deal are disgusting rubbery yokes

stehyl15

Superdry is too open in dundrum

stehyl15

Not really a opening but eurospar in killeny and dalkey is too become a supervalu and spar in stillorgen is too become a centra

youcancallmeal

What appears to be a new restaurant called the Joshua Tree has opened beside McGarrys pub in Harold's Cross

the groutch

Insomnia opening shortly in Deangrange, in one of the new units on the corner that replaced AIB.

krattapopov

Cafe Spirit in Belarmine, which shut down unfortunately, is now being replaced with 'Firestone Cafe Bar' - hopefully will be good for the area.

Synode

Starbucks open in Rathmines the last couple of weeks

BabysCoffee

Synode wrote: »

Starbucks open in Rathmines the last couple of weeks

Where in Rathmines?

Synode

On the main street. Beside the newsagents / old xtra-vision store

MurdyWurdy

A new shop has opened next to Butler's in Dundrum Town Centre selling china doll things. It's seriously creepy!

Mick Murdock

MurdyWurdy wrote: »

There's a similar butchers called discount meats or something like that opened in Bloomfields as well

Pretty sure it's called The Meat Outlet? Think they're based in Santry.


A friend of mine who works in the butcher trade was telling me that the majority of Chicken Fillets (like those 6 for €7 deals mentioned above) are imported from Holland.

I notice in that Bloomfields place that all of their items are marked as 'Origin: Ireland' but there's something very generic about their labelling.
Does anybody know the legitimacy of this? I notice their non-meat items like potatoes etc. also have this label.

Does anybody else care either way?