Bad Ass Café

Advantages: Convenient location and good food
Disadvantages: Confused orders, they pack you in

The Bad Ass Café is an American diner style restaurant famous for its burgers and its high profile rock star connections. Apparently the establishment was visited by none other than the great Bruce Springsteen (Sinead O'Connor also worked there as a struggling musician...but I don't like her as much!) and it is easy to see why (referring to Bruce, not my dislike of Sinead!). Unusual features include the colourful, animal themed (if that's what you ...
...part of Ireland. The Bad Ass Café is located in the Temple Bar district on Crown Alley. For those without maps this is just off the main square in Temple Bar (which is identifiable by its large outdoor eating areas for the restaurants bordering the square). Alternatively ask for directions to 'The Temple Bar' pub which is no more than a minute's walk away. This location is convenient because you can jump straight from the café to Dublin's most popular ... Read review

Advantages: Tourists from everywgere congregate here
Disadvantages: Busy

...Temple Bar is situated directly south of the river Liffey and is in the heart of Dublin life. Tourists from all over the world congregate in the pubs and bars, making the streets constantly alive, making it nearly impossible to venture into a public house after 8pm. If it’s action you want this is the place, with a constant buzz of street performers combined with the immediate recognizable Irish music coming from open windowed pubs. In the daytime streets are just as congested with many tourist souvenir shops compacted together. Do shop around though as things can be brought at different priced in close proximity. The Bad Ass café should be visited as Sinead O Conner used to work there and it’s just the right place to stop when hunger calls.... Read review

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Advantages: The friendliest city in Europe
Disadvantages: Weather - lots of "liquid" sunshine

...heralded the death knell for many of these smaller establishments, as they were either taken over by big business or turned into much larger and upmarket concerns. This has left Temple Bar very much from the same mould as London’s Covent Garden, although it beats it hands down in the quality of the Guinness. ~ ~ The numerous pubs still exist, and many have, in all fairness, managed to successfully avoid the headlong rush into commercialism, and still retain their unique Irish “flavour” and atmosphere. Try the “Temple Bar” itself, Oliver St. John Gogarty’s, O’Sheas Merchants, and my own particular favourites, the Porterhouse and the Palace Bar. (see my separate opinions, plug, plug) There are also restaurants of every flavour and nationality, such as the Bad Ass Café, the distinctly Irish Gallagher’... Read review

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