Cheap Eats in Dublin: Where to Eat Well

Updated 29 October 2026.

Fish and chips at Gallagher’s Boxty House in Temple Bar now cost €27. That place used to be on this list. It isn’t any more.

Cheap food in Dublin does still exist. If you’re happy with a slice, a toastie or a plate of rice and dhal, lunch costs about €5. A proper sit-down plate costs €12 to €15. The cheapest food is mostly north of the Liffey, on Parnell Street, Capel Street and Abbey Street. Temple Bar has a few honest exceptions, and they’re listed first because that’s where a lot of hungry visitors end up.

Prices were checked against each place’s own menu or a dated listing in October 2026. Five places come from The Irish Times’ search for a genuine €5 lunch in January 2026, and their prices are from that piece and marked. A few places don’t publish prices online, and they’re marked. Menus change, so treat the numbers as a guide rather than a quote.

The list at a glance

Place	Area	What to get	Price
Falafel	Temple Bar	Palestinian falafel plate	€13.90
Sano Pizza	Temple Bar	Margherita	€13.50 (Uber Eats)
The Mongolian Barbeque	Temple Bar	Single lunch bowl	€13.90
Disndat	Dame Court	Toastie and Tayto	€5 (Jan 2026)
Mini India	Westmoreland St	Dahi tikki	€4.99 (Jan 2026)
Offbeat Donut	Westmoreland St and stations	Double dozen	€42 for 24
Pablo Picanté	Clarendon Market	Bean and cheese burrito	€8.25
Beanhive Coffee	Dawson St	Full Irish with a drink	€15
Bambino	Stephen St Lower	Cheese slice	€4.50 (Jan 2026)
Xi’an Street Food	South Anne St	Xi’an burger	€8.50
Masa	Drury St	Tacos	Not published
Bunsen	Wexford St and others	Burger	€8.95 to €12.95 (Jan 2025)
Dicey’s Garden	Harcourt St	Carvery or BBQ	Not published
Dall’Italia Pasta Bar	Camden Market	Build-your-own pasta	Not published
Sprezzatura	Camden Market	Fresh pasta	Not published
Lovinspoon	Frederick St North	Full Irish	Not published
Kimchi Hophouse	Parnell St	Lunch set	€14
Pho Kim	Parnell St	Pho ga	€12
Super Asia	Parnell St	Ten spring rolls and a cup noodle	€5 (Jan 2026)
Ayla	Capel St	Kısır wrap	€4 (Jan 2026)
Umi Falafel	Mary St and George’s St Arcade	Falafel wrap	Not published
Govinda’s	Middle Abbey St	Rice and dhal	€5
The Back Page	Phibsborough	Pizza and a pint, Mon and Tue	€15

Temple Bar and around Dame Street

Temple Bar is the most expensive part of the city to eat badly in. These are the places where the bill still makes sense.

Falafel Restaurant

The place is just called Falafel, on Essex Street East in Temple Bar. It does the falafel three ways (Turkish, Palestinian and Iraqi), as a wrap or on a plate with salad, pickles and hummus or baba ghanoush.

It used to fit under €10. It doesn’t now. The Irish Times reviewed it in January 2026 and paid €13.90 for the Palestinian falafel plate, with starters from €6 to €11 and grill plates from €12 to €18. A meal upgrade (chips and a soft drink) is €5 more. Still fair for Temple Bar, and the room is fully wheelchair accessible, which is rarer around here than it should be.

11 Essex St E, Temple Bar, Dublin 2

Sano Pizza

Neapolitan pizza on Exchange Street Upper, on the Dublin Castle side of Temple Bar. It’s usually busy, which is a fair sign for a pizza place in a part of town with no shortage of bad ones. Vegetarian and vegan pizzas are on the menu, and there’s a second Sano in Ranelagh.

The old “from under €7” price is long gone. Uber Eats lists the margherita at €13.50 in October 2026, and delivery menus tend to run higher than the counter, so expect a little less in person.

1-2 Exchange Street Upper, Temple Bar

The Mongolian Barbeque

The Mongolian Barbeque (it now signs itself The Mongolian BBQ) has been on Anglesea Street since 1996. You fill a bowl with raw meat, seafood, vegetables and sauce, and the cooks stir-fry it on a big round grill in front of you.

The single lunch bowl is the cheap option, at €13.90. All-you-can-eat lunch is €19.90. Dinner is all-you-can-eat only, €22.90 before 7pm and €24.90 after, which takes it off this list. Go at lunch, between noon and 4:30pm.

7 Anglesea St, Temple Bar, Dublin 2

Disndat

A pub on Dame Court, between Dame Street and South Great George’s Street. The Irish Times called its lunch possibly the best value they found in January 2026: a red cheddar and ham toastie with a packet of cheese and onion Tayto for €5. A toastie and a pint was €10.

It’s a pub, so you get a seat and a roof, which counts for a lot in November.

Dame Court, Dublin 2

Mini India

A small Indian snack shop on Westmoreland Street, between O’Connell Bridge and Trinity. The Irish Times paid €4.99 in January 2026 for dahi tikki: two fried potato patties with tamarind sauce, green chutney, yoghurt, red onion and thin fried noodles. Spicy and good, they said, but not very filling. There are a few seats, or take it with you.

Westmoreland Street, Dublin 2

Offbeat Donut

Not a meal, but it’s on Westmoreland Street, and its kiosks at Connolly, Heuston and Pearse stations make it the easiest thing to grab before a train. The only price on its own site in October 2026 is a deal: one premium dozen and one classic glazed dozen for €42, which works out at €1.75 a donut if you can find 23 friends.

5 Westmoreland St, Dublin 2, plus station kiosks and shopping centre branches

Grafton Street to Camden Street

Pablo Picanté Burrito Bar

A burrito bar in Clarendon Market, the little lane between Clarendon Row and South William Street. The burritos are big and the menu is short.

Most burritos now cost €11.15 to €12.99. The cheap one is the bean and cheese, at €8.25. There are two more branches, on Baggot Street and Dawson Street. Clarendon Market opens at noon every day and stays open until 10:45pm on Fridays and Saturdays.

4 Clarendon Market, Dublin 2

Beanhive Coffee

A café on Dawson Street. The full Irish is €15: two rashers, two sausages, a fried egg, beans and bread. Any hot or cold drink is included, which is what makes it work.

The longer plate with white pudding, hash browns and mushrooms is the Super Breakfast, at €17.50. Vegetarian and vegan breakfasts are also €17.50. Coffee here is good enough to come for on its own. There’s more on breakfast in the all-day breakfast guide.

26 Dawson St, Dublin 2

Bambino

New York-style pizza by the slice, at 37 Stephen Street Lower, with a second shop at 18 Merrion Street Upper. The Irish Times paid €4.50 for a large cheese slice in January 2026.

Seating is limited and the lunchtime queue can be long, so go early if you’re on a short lunch break.

37 Stephen Street Lower, Dublin 2

Xi’an Street Food

Food from Xi’an in northwest China, on South Anne Street off Grafton Street, with branches on Suffolk Street and North Earl Street. The signature dish is biang biang noodles, wide hand-pulled noodles, but at €15.50 to €19.50 they’re over the limit for this list.

Order the Xi’an burger instead, which is roujiamo: braised pork in a flatbread, €8.50. Hot oil splashed noodles are €9.50, and so is the spice bag.

28 South Anne Street, Dublin 2

Masa

A taqueria at 2-3 Drury Street, on the corner with Stephen Street Lower. Tacos come out as they’re ready, and you eat at the window tables or the counter.

Masa doesn’t publish its prices online, so check the board before you order a round. It opens at noon on weekdays and 1pm at weekends, and stays open until 10:30pm on Fridays and Saturdays.

2-3 Drury Street, Dublin 2

Bunsen

A burger chain that keeps its menu short on purpose: hamburger, cheeseburger, a few sides, milkshakes. No brioche theatre. Burgers cost €8.95 to €12.95 according to Time Out in January 2025, so check the board before you add fries and a shake.

Bunsen now has eight Dublin branches: Wexford Street, Dame Street, South Anne Street, Temple Bar, Baggot Street, Ranelagh, Phibsborough and Blanchardstown. The old advice on this list still stands: start with Wexford Street.

36 Wexford St, Dublin 2

Dicey’s Garden

The beer garden bar attached to the Russell Court Hotel on Harcourt Street, with a carvery, a BBQ menu and bar food every night. It has a late bar and a DJ every night. Unless you want to eat with a few hundred students, avoid student night.

The old €7 carvery and €2 BBQ prices on this list can’t be confirmed, and Dicey’s doesn’t publish its food prices online. Can’t say I’m a massive fan of Dicey’s Garden Club (its official name), but it has always been cheap for the location.

21-25 Harcourt St, Dublin 2

Dall’Italia Pasta Bar

A pasta bar in Camden Market on Grantham Street, where you build the dish yourself: pick the pasta, the sauce and the toppings, and the kitchen does the cooking. It’s cheaper than most Italian places in the city. There’s a second branch on Talbot Street, near Connolly Station.

Prices aren’t published online.

Camden Market, 1 Grantham St, Dublin 8

Sprezzatura

Handmade pasta in the same Camden Market building as Dall’Italia, made with Irish ingredients. It’s a sit-down restaurant rather than a counter.

Prices aren’t published online. Lunch runs 12:30pm to 3pm on weekdays and dinner from 5:30pm, with all-day service at weekends.

5/6 Camden Market, Grantham St, Dublin 8

Parnell Street, Capel Street and Abbey Street

This stretch of Dublin 1 has the cheapest good food in the city centre. Parnell Street in particular has Korean, Vietnamese and Chinese places within a few doors of each other, five minutes’ walk from the top of O’Connell Street.

Lovinspoon

A breakfast café on North Frederick Street, at the top of Parnell Square. It does big fry-ups (rashers, sausages, black pudding, eggs, beans), plus pancakes for the sweet-toothed.

It doesn’t publish prices online, and none were available for this update. Reviewers through 2025 call the big breakfast good value, and one suggests the smaller size if you’re not that hungry. It’s closed on Mondays and Tuesdays and shuts mid-afternoon the rest of the week, so don’t plan a late brunch.

13 Frederick St N, Dublin 1

Kimchi Hophouse

A pub with a Korean restaurant attached, on Parnell Street. The restaurant describes itself as the oldest Korean restaurant in Dublin.

At lunch, the Hansang set is €14: rice, kimchi and either a sizzling pan-fried dish or a stew. Mandu (Korean dumplings) are €6 as a starter, and kimchi jeon (a pancake) is €6.50. It’s open for dine-in and takeaway.

160-161 Parnell St, Dublin 1

Pho Kim

Vietnamese, at 162 Parnell Street, a few steps from Kimchi. Earlier versions of this list called it Pho Viet. The menu is long: pho, bánh cuốn, salads and seafood.

Pho ga (chicken) is €12 and pho bo (beef) is €13. Three fried spring rolls are €4.50, which is the move if you want something under €5. Try the Vietnamese iced coffee.

162 Parnell St, Dublin 1

Super Asia

An Asian grocery on Parnell Street (there’s another on Aungier Street) with seats inside. The Irish Times got ten spring rolls and a cup of instant noodles for €5 in January 2026. The spring rolls alone were €3. It’s a cheap lunch, not a nutritious one, and nobody is pretending otherwise.

Parnell Street, Dublin 1

Ayla

A grab-and-go spot on Capel Street. The Irish Times paid €4 for a kısır wrap in January 2026 (bulgur wheat salad with pomegranate molasses and fresh vegetables), and €5 with a baklava. There’s nowhere to sit, but it was the most nutritious of their €5 lunches.

Capel Street, Dublin 1

Govinda’s

A vegetarian Hare Krishna restaurant on Middle Abbey Street, a short walk from the Spire. You pick from the day’s curries and it comes with rice and dhal.

Rice and dhal alone is €5. A small takeaway box with two mains is €8. Sitting in, a vegan plate is €11.45 and a small plate with three vegetarian mains is €12.45. It closes early (7pm most days, 8pm on Fridays and Saturdays), so it’s a lunch and early dinner place.

83 Middle Abbey St, Dublin 1

Umi Falafel

Falafel wraps and mezze plates, at 4 Mary Street just off Capel Street. There’s another branch on the south side, in George’s Street Arcade, and one in Rathmines. The Dame Street branch is listed as permanently closed, so don’t go there.

Prices aren’t published online.

4 Mary St, Dublin 1

Phibsborough

Phibsborough is a 15 to 20 minute walk north of Parnell Square, or a few stops on the Luas Green line to Phibsborough. Bunsen has a branch here too.

The Back Page

A sports pub on Phibsborough Road with pizza, ping pong and a games room. On Mondays and Tuesdays, 5pm to 7pm, a pizza and a pint cost €15. It opens at 4pm Monday to Wednesday and at noon Thursday to Sunday.

199 Phibsborough Rd, Dublin 7

Removed from this list

• The Pieman Cafe on Crown Alley has closed.
• P Mac’s on Stephen Street Lower has closed.
• Gallagher’s Boxty House in Temple Bar is still open, but mains now cost €27 to €38.

Quick answers

Where can I get lunch for under €10 in Dublin city centre? Govinda’s on Middle Abbey Street (rice and dhal, €5), Bambino on Stephen Street Lower (a slice, €4.50), Xi’an Street Food on South Anne Street (Xi’an burger, €8.50) and Disndat on Dame Court (toastie and crisps, €5).

What are the cheapest places to eat in Temple Bar? Disndat on Dame Court is the cheapest sit-down option, at about €5. Falafel on Essex Street East and Sano on Exchange Street Upper cost around €14 a head. The Mongolian Barbeque’s single lunch bowl is €13.90.

Where can I eat cheaply on the north side? Parnell Street has Kimchi Hophouse, Pho Kim and Super Asia within a few doors of each other. Ayla is on Capel Street, Umi Falafel is on Mary Street and Govinda’s is on Middle Abbey Street. In Phibsborough, The Back Page does pizza and a pint for €15 on Monday and Tuesday evenings.

For the rest of a cheap trip, see Dublin on a budget, the fish and chips ranking and the guide to world food restaurants.