This place makes me wish I lived in the Liberties, only to be closer by! Having been here for both breakfast and lunch I can firmly say that it’s a great spot for both. No fuss, no overly fancy stuff, just good and healthy food with good ingredients and lots of flavour. … the favourite here is without a doubt the cinnamon roll!
- Dún Laoghaire DART station, 2003
- Two more homes in the city since
- Now: Carman’s Hall, the Liberties
From a DART station to the Liberties
The idea in 2003 was simple: give people better food than they could get nearby, by making as much of it as possible from scratch, every day.
More than twenty years and two moves later, the café has settled on Carman’s Hall, and the idea hasn’t changed. The bread for every sandwich is baked each day. The hummus, the relish, the soup and the coffee syrups are all made in the kitchen. Now it’s for everyone in the neighbourhood.
“Our goal hasn’t changed, offering great food and coffee but now to everyone in the community.”
The coffee
Bell Lane Coffee, roasted in Mullingar. The house bean is Busasa, a single-origin washed coffee from Burundi.