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[health-and-wellbeing-dublin-blog]

Vegan Restaurants that you should visit in Dublin

Finding it hard to find a restaurant that meets your dietary needs? Especially Vegan restaurants? We’ve done the research for you and has compiled a few restaurants to satisfy your hunger. 

1. Govinda 

The Govinda has an array of menus that is coeliac-free and caters to vegetarians and vegans alike. The cuisines are a mixture of European influences and Indian. 

If you are on a budget on this holiday, this restaurant might be the one for you as their menu is of affordable prices. With their main course only costing €9.50. There are currently two locations, one in Abbey Street and Aungier Street which are pretty accessible. 

2. Yamamori (Or any Japanese Restaurant) 

We know what you are thinking, isn���t this a Japanese restaurant? Yes, you are right. Although Japanese cuisine and Vegan does not go hand in hand and is more synonymous with sushi and raw fish. Just about any Japanese restaurant that you will find caters to vegans and has vegan options (although not usually stated). 

For instance, miso soup, tofu steak and soba (made from 100% buckwheat) / udon (100% wheat) noodles are all vegan-friendly options.

[dduane]

Hey DD, in a turn of absolutely terrible luck, I misplaced my passport in Dublin and will be spending a day to a week searching for it/waiting for a replacement. Would you happen to know any great places that you'd recommend I visit while I'm trying to stave off my inevitable panic and horror at my own bad luck? xx

Oh jeez. What a turn of events! Commiseration offered.

Here are some things you might do.

In the city:

Take a morning or afternoon to run around the National Museum branch at Collins Barracks. Plenty of interesting stuff over there. Also: don’t forget the old “main branch” of the Museum in center city on Kildare Street. That’s where the Celtic gold items are. Lean against the cases and droooool like the rest of us.

Go to Trinity College Library and see the Book of Kells. (Also mock George Lucas for stealing its design for the Jedi Library without crediting the original. Naughty George.)

Go visit St. Stephen’s Green and say hi to the ducks. Lunchtime is good for this. Grab a bag lunch from one of the sandwich places down toward the park end of Grafton Street.

Check out Christ Church Cathedral, which is extremely handsome. Visit the tomb of Dean Swift, writer’s writer and satirist of satirists, finally all comfy someplace where (as the tombstone says) “savage indignation can no longer lacerate his heart.” Be there for the choir if you can.

Do a river or harbor or canal tour! Or maybe you’re feeling goofy enough to take one of the Viking Splash Tours. They have vehicles that go in and out of the water, and they take you around the main sights in town, and you get to wear a horned helmet and wave a plastic sword or axe and yell ARRR at people. This strikes me as highly therapeutic. :)

Outside the city:

Get out of town on the DART – take it down to Bray and walk the seafront. Or go up north to Howth or Skerries and soak up the small-fishing-village vibe.

Or: Grab the Luas down to Dundrum and wander around the big shopping centre there – some nice stuff there for windowshopping and some good places to sit for lunch. (If using the Luas, make sure to buy a Leap Card from one of the machines – you’ll save significantly on fares.)

Or: If you feel like going so far north and have the cash for the train, catch the Enterprise up to Belfast (they’ve just refurbished the rolling stock, finally) and check the place out. If you go up there, right across from Great Victoria St. Station is that queen among pubs and National Trust site, the Crown Liquor Saloon. Go see the tile and the mirrors and the mosaics and the rest of the art. They pull a fair pint, too, though some will feel it’s overpriced. – There’s also the new Titanic Quarter, which is worth looking into.

Now having said all that: I am genuinely slow on the uptake today, because the very first thing I should have thought to say to you is: If you’re stuck in Dublin for the next week, you are about to be stuck in the middle of the St Patrick’s Festival. This is, well, a mixed blessing. There will be a million cool things going on. There will also be a LOT of people in town. A LOT. If you have trouble with crowds, you may want to be aware that last year there were something like half a million visitors in for the Parade. Everything gets insanely crowded, and in some places prices will get jacked up, sometimes ridiculously. Keep your eyes open.

Finally: Food in town, and pubs: Gotham Cafe is great (say hi to David and/or Jackie for us): best NY thin crust pizza in the city, and much more. Food’s good up at Porterhouse Central at the top of Grafton Street. Half the time when Peter and I are up in town, we’ll wind up in one of those two places. Also enjoyable: (I’m not going to link to these – Google them, you’ll find them): Monty’s of Kathmandu (in Temple Bar): Yamamori and Yamamori Noodles: The Counter (fabulous modular/build-it-yourself burgers): Pichet (French, super): Chez Max at Dublin Castle (Palace Street: best steak frites in town): The Port House (tapas and sherries etc): Brasserie Sixty6 (bistro stuff): The Exchequer (gastropub and cocktail joint par excellence): Thai Spice (down Talbot Street behind Busaras). Favored pubs: The Oval Bar (off O’Connell Street north of the river): The Brazen Head (oldest in the city – a pub has operated on that site since the 1100s or thereabouts): The Long Hall (”the wizards drink there”): Neary’s, off Grafton Street (note bronze arms sticking out of the wall like something from La Belle et la Bete): Davy Byrnes (aka “The Moral Pub” in James Joyce)(good oysters there, too): McDaid’s (aka “The Morgue”: apparently it was, once) near the Westbury Hotel: Bruxelles, ditto: The Bailey in Duke Street: and a bit new, Mary’s Bar (& Hardware) across from Brown Thomas in Wicklow Street.

…Anyway: enjoy!

[dadosrosa]

#montage #layout #friends #dinner #fun #alotoftalking photos by @cteresa8 (at Yamamori Noodles)

[danielrosiakowski]

at Yamamori Noodles https://www.instagram.com/p/BoKDfFiApzCPcWPT9mx2Hjm7GxhE6ywuvN6zRk0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=17h198khx1tbi

[jbeer-en]

Feast on Japanese Food at Yamamori and You Could Win €100 – It’s a No Brainer!

#beer #JapaneseBeer [thetaste.ie]Whether is be a comforting bowl of chunky aromatic noodles at Yamamori Noodles, a sunny afternoon enjoying the freshest, fluffiest sushi at Yamamori Sushi, a rare Japanese whiskey or beer at Yamamori Tengu, or late night nibbles and drinks at Yamamori ...

[ameerjoshua]

Pre-theatre dinner @izakaya_official . ❤️ this place. (at Yamamori Noodles)

[30-days-of-exciting-stuff-blog]

Day 5: Humans Need Not Apply [Exhibition]

I put this project on hold while in Dublin, because as much as I love writing about awesomeness living it to the fullest feels even better and I felt that in that particular case it involved me spending my evenings with my brother rather than with my computer, and pub crawling rather than Tumblring. I could probably write an enthusiastic post about every single thing I saw there, including well-known highlights such as Kilmainham Gaol and St-Patrick Cathedral (see that terribly caricatured tourist who takes pictures of absolutely everything while bouncing with excitement and seems to genuinely believe that Guinness tastes better in Ireland and that rain makes Dublin look even nicer? That’s me). But as there is probably quite a lot of reading material available about them, instead I’ll focus on an exhibition we basically walked into while visiting Trinity College. It’s called Humans Need Not Apply and it’s on display until May 14th at the Trinity College Science Gallery.

To sum it up, it’s about robots. Lots of them. Useless robots. Artistic robots. Pet robots. Masseur robots. Talkative robots. My brother and I fucking love robots (and the multiverse and weird science, but that’s another topic…). It would probably take ages (and break the magic) to describe everything, but here are a few of my favourite AIs:

The Mindfulness Machine is a drawing robot which artistic decisions are based on its mood. The robot’s mood stems from a complex algorithm taking into account the number of people watching, the date, the weather, the ambient noise, and various obscure variables. When the robot feels happy and stimulated, it uses bright colours, whereas a depressed mood will lead it to draw in black and brown shades. Should it be stressed because of an overcrowded gallery watching it, it may even add shaky, stressed dark lines everywhere before adding colours. Unfortunately, my phone was slowly joining my camera in death when we got to that point, but I still managed to take a few pictures of the Mindfulness Machine and its art.

61% stimulated, 99% happy VS 50% stimulated, 20% happy, stressed. The Mindfulness Machine displays more variety in its artistic creations than I do. As far as I’m concerned, when I’m happy I draw monsters. And when I’m sad, I draw monsters.

Another interesting attempt to create an artistic AI is a software playing duets with humans on an electric piano. You play a few notes, the software takes over, and so on. Its algorithm supposedly enables it to recognize the chords and rhythms and improvise harmoniously. We had the opportunity to try it and, as musicians, we were both sceptical about its actual abilities: When you play only a few notes, and with a single hand, the improvisation is usually good (although always conventional… is musical audacity an exclusively human trait?), but the AI gets totally lost if you play something complex. Nevertheless, I really liked the idea, and look forward to hear an improved version of it!

I first wanted to post a video of me trying it, but my phone decided otherwise. Rebellious machines who hate humans are already a thing.

Machines seem to be more successful at painting, as the exhibition also introduces us to a project called The Next Rembrandt, which aimed at creating a painting that Rembrandt may have made, had he lived longer, using artificial intelligence. This resulted in a pretty convincing 3D painting, although it is unclear how much of the work was actually done by human designers giving precise instructions to the AI. Nevertheless, the ability of AIs to generate Rembrandt-looking creations is definitely food for thought when it comes to the meaning of art.

The AI-generated Rembrandt painting. These are expressive eyes you’ve got here, Sir.

A few creations seem to be aimed at depicting absurd aspects of human societies, such as the Humans Need Not to Count robotic arm that counts visitors with a clicker, or the Minimum Wage Machine that yields one cent every few seconds – the equivalent of Ireland’s minimum wage – when you turn the crank (which basically allows you to work for minimum wage if you have solid wrists and forearms, and are willing to pay for everything in the form of coins… don’t forget your wheelbarrow next time you want to pay your rent).

The exhibit also includes a dystopian history of combots (robot-computer hybrids) taking over the world, doing all the tasks and seeing human as annoying, imperfect, useless beings consuming bandwidth with their obsession for cat videos. We’re not here yet, but the number of cute pet robots at the exhibition makes me think that combots could actually take advantage of that permanent quest for cuteness, break the Internet and make the best of the existence of us damn dumb humans.

I mean, look at that cutie. We also met at the exhibition, and he took my heart forever.

If you have the opportunity to go to Dublin before May 14th, I strongly advise that you take a look at the Humans Need Not Apply exhibition. It doesn’t take long, it’s fascinating, it gives you an excuse to take a nice walk in Trinity College (and wish you were a student there), and you’ll have interesting stories to tell later on at the pub – if people hint that you may be too drunk and nicely suggest you to go home when you tell them about robots making art, they probably don’t deserve you. Oh, and it’s free (just like the Natural History Museum, but you’ll get to see robots rather than overly stuffed animals looking weird).

I mean, look at that hedgehog. It looks like a damn helium balloon.

By the way: The exhibition was named after a pretty interesting short documentary film released in 2014, describing a future where human labour will no longer be required and robots will be doing all the jobs. That makes me wonder why the exhibition included antisocial robots whose only job is avoiding each other. If there is a job based on doing U-turns when unexpectedly walking into people, just let me know so I can apply!

And also: If you happen to go to Dublin and like Japanese food, you probably should give Yamamori Noodles a try. A bit expensive, but worth it. I had marinated, crispy fried tofu with a mango and roast sesame sauce and stir fried vegetables (and there are loads of other vegetarian options), and my brother had teppan beef teriyaki. Now I feel like topping everything with mango sauce, and annoy everyone by telling them how good tofu can actually taste.

[jbeer-en]

Feast on Japanese Food at Yamamori and You Could Win €100 – It’s a No Brainer!

#beer #JapaneseBeer [thetaste.ie]Whether is be a comforting bowl of chunky aromatic noodles at Yamamori Noodles, a sunny afternoon enjoying the freshest, fluffiest sushi at Yamamori Sushi, a rare Japanese whiskey or beer at Yamamori Tengu, or late night nibbles and drinks at Yamamori ...