Lunch in Drumcondra: What to Order from Our All Day Menu

Looking for lunch in Drumcondra? Our café at 94 Drumcondra Road Lower serves an all day menu seven days a week: sourdough tartines, toasted sandwiches, high protein bowls, soup of the day and a chicken burger. It’s the kind of lunch that works for a quick break from the desk, a catch up with a friend or a slow Sunday.

Here are all ten lunch dishes on our menu, with prices, plus our opening hours and a few tips for ordering. Every price comes from our current menu.

When we serve lunch in Drumcondra

The all day menu is served whenever the café is open:

• Monday to Wednesday: 10am to 4pm
• Thursday and Friday: 10am to 11pm
• Saturday: 9am to 11pm
• Sunday: 10am to 4pm

Breakfast runs until 12.30 on weekdays and 1pm at the weekend, so an early lunch can still be eggs. On Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings from 6pm, the café becomes The Lovely Wine Bar.

House tartines: 4 open sandwiches

A tartine is an open sandwich. Ours are made on toasted sourdough and served with rocket and a house dressed salad. You choose the topping:

1. Burrata, €11.95. Buffalo burrata with roast tomato crush, basil and pesto oil.
2. Smoked salmon, €16.50. Smoked salmon with pickled red onion.
3. Avocado and egg, €12.50. Avocado, boiled egg, pickled red onion and chili peanut rayu.
4. Panko chicken, €13.50. Panko chicken, tomato concassé, Baby Gem, chipotle dressing and streaky bacon.

Our burrata comes from Macroom Buffalo in West Cork, made with milk from a grass-fed herd of buffalo.

House special toasties

Our house special toasties are hot toasted sandwiches, and there are three:

1. Roast chicken and stuffing, €12.95. Irish roasted chicken, herb stuffing, cranberry mayo and Gold River leaves.
2. Pastrami, €14.95. Pastrami, horseradish mayo, pickles, Cheddar and Gold River leaves.
3. Ham and cheese, €11.95. Dubliner Cheddar, carved country Irish ham and Ballymaloe chutney.

If you like the toasties, similar fillings come as cold sandwiches and wraps on our catering menu for office lunches.

Bowls, soup and a burger

For something lighter, or something bigger, the rest of the all day menu has you covered:

1. High Protein Bowl, €9.50. Boiled egg, roasted chipotle chickpeas, greens, tahini, fermented chili, pickled red onion, tomatoes and mixed leaves. That’s up to 15g of protein before you add anything. Add panko Irish chicken, smoked salmon, avocado or buffalo burrata for €6.00 each.
2. Soup of the Day, €6.95 a bowl or €3.50 a cup. A seasonal soup with toasted sourdough and Irish butter.
3. Chicken Burger, €15.50. A brioche bap with chicken breast, crispy bacon, cheese, mixed salad and slaw.

The Lovely Granola, American style pancakes and our house sausage roll (pork, black pudding and apricot) are served all day too.

Lunch in Drumcondra on a budget

A good lunch doesn’t have to cost a lot. A few easy combinations:

• Under €10: the High Protein Bowl (€9.50), or a bowl of soup of the day (€6.95) with an Americano (€3.65) for €10.60.
• Soup and a toastie: a cup of soup (€3.50) with the ham and cheese toastie (€11.95) comes to €15.45.
• A treat: the smoked salmon tartine (€16.50) with a flat white (€4.10) comes to €20.60.

For the kids, our Little Adults menu is available all day: sausage and eggs (€7.50), sausage and crispy baby potatoes (€8.50) or little pancakes with strawberries, banana and Nutella (€7.50).

Coffee, drinks and something sweet

Every lunch goes better with coffee. An Americano is €3.65, and a flat white, cappuccino or latte is €4.10. There’s chai and matcha latte (€4.65), breakfast and herbal teas (€3.50), and cold drinks such as orange juice (€4.15) and San Pellegrino (€3.00).

To finish, our pastries and cakes include croissants, scones, cinnamon buns, brownies, millionaire squares and cookies, and the lemon or marble cake slice is a gluten free option.

Why have lunch in Drumcondra with us

We cook with Irish produce from suppliers we know by name: Annalitten free range eggs from Castleblayney in County Monaghan, award-winning sausages from P O’Connell, black pudding from Dunnes of Wicklow and buffalo burrata from Macroom. It’s the same kitchen that makes our full Irish breakfast.

We’re on Drumcondra Road Lower, a short walk from Croke Park and two doors from our sister café, Bread & Butter. If you’re feeding a whole team rather than yourself, read our guide to office catering in Dublin 9.

Frequently asked questions

Whether it’s a quick bowl or a long lunch in Drumcondra with friends, we’d love to see you. Have a look at the full menu and come in any day of the week.