Brendans Coffee Shop

It is recorded that Saint Brendan the navigator set out upon his journey to find the garden of Eden somewhere around the year 512AD. With this in mind I set out in 2015 to find Brendans Café for a full Irish Breakfast.
On Brendans journey he is said to have encountered a sea monster… on my journey a man in a sleeveless jacket menacingly drove a forklift truck along the path in front of us like something from Mad max.
The voyage ended in the sitting down in this unassuming haunt for a very enjoyable breakfast set in the heartland of old school Dublin.
They actually serve Brennans batch bread with the breakfast aswell as a shot of Orange juice to wet the whistle and a mug of tea/​coffee.
Places like Brendans Café are great, it will never try to be anything that it is’nt and it will never need to either. It is more than enough, the large breakfast at € 8.50 is a real charming plate of food and I have to say that its refreshing to visit the kind of Café that has been doing the same thing right for quite a long time and hopefully will continue to fry up a storm for many years to come.
Brendan even said «Well done» when I paid. There was something nice about the whole experience and I will be making a voyage here again in the near future no doubt.

Sure I was only MAD for a hang and cheese sangwich. I passed by Brendan’s just as the taciturn owner was shutting up shop for the day, and asked for a take-​away toastie. Five minutes later, I was the proud and salivating owner of a batch bread toasted sandwich, presented in a Brennan’s bread wrapper to keep it warm and then in a brown paper bag! Now that’s taking a toastie seriously. I’m going to swing by early some morning to check out the brekkie.

Brendan’s Café mainly serves the workers from the Fruit and Vegetable Market across the road — its open from very early in the morning until around 2 pm or maybe 12 noon on a Saturday, closed on a Sunday …
It is a great place — hasn’t changed in maybe 30 years with a feel that it could be back in the mid seventies! 100% authentic, it serves a voluminous breakfast which is very tasty and cooked freshly for you … though if you like toast with no butter — better to warn the staff beforehand :)
A place I regularly bring visitors for something real — it never fails to make a positive impression!