“I don’t think there are many industries where the work itself keeps being reinvented and redesigned.” – Emmet Connolly, Director of Product Design at Intercom.

A lasagne pizza is something you might expect to see on a Buzzfeed round-up of the world’s most outrageous artery cloggers, but The Yarn’s version is actually beautifully restrained and thoroughly comforting.

Charlotte Quay has everything it needs to succeed: a great view, a talented chef, experienced leaders leading the charge and an already loyal fanbase. All they need is for Dubliners to get over the psychological barrier of eating off the beaten track.

The take-away offerings at newly opened Piply are radically different to the norm. Garrett Fitzgerald talks to us about the philosophy behind his healthy new food venture with business partners Eamon Lynch and Alex Gartland.

Monterey Bay, Lindsay Hattan’s accomplished debut novel, defies easy categorisation.

Atmosphere is a quality that can’t be contrived. Some restaurants just have it, oozing out of every nook and cranny, and Da Mimmo’s has it in spades.

A waterborne commute is an intriguing and eminently realisable prospect. Reg McCabe asks, “What if Dubliners could commute by boat?”

Idlewild is a very pretty bar, and it even boasts an extremely bright staircase on the way up from the toilets, which makes you feel slightly like you’re ascending to the afterlife, potentially to hang out with another dead Quaker businessman.

A volatile retail atmosphere hasn’t deterred Chupi in setting up shop. As her multi-award winning jewellery brand continues to grow, Chupi carved some time out of her busy day to talk to Totally Dublin about the big plans that she has for this latest project.

It’s the penultimate week of our fabulous Summer competition with Il Posto. Win dinner for two with wine*! Entry details here!

Summer’s coming to an end and so sadly is our fabulous competition with Il Posto. It’s the final week of our summer competition with Il Posto to win dinner for two with wine*! Details here.

The book is so over-the-top DeLillo that it finally winds up being one of his best.

It is rare for a pub’s greatest selling point to be its carpark but O’Shea’s Dodder-adjacent sun-trap seemed to be the establishment’s primary draw over the last few years.

I was expecting a laid-back, fun pizzeria and instead I got a stilted, grandiose white table-clothed restaurant. Perhaps it was an off night? Or perhaps Manifesto needs a boost of fresh energy.

Hailing from Tuam, Oh Boland have been releasing mildly demented garage pop since 2013. We spoke to singer and guitarist Niall Murphy about the academic life and the particular ennui of the Irish countryside that fuels his music.

The celebrated Dublin boutique Om Diva recently launched a new store, 2nd Space, to showcase the work of emerging local designers. An avid supporter of young emerging designers, Ruth Ni Loinsigh is excited to discover new talent to stock in 2nd Space. Her goal is to give undergraduates and recent graduates a platform before they leave college, so that they may have real life experience of the fashion industry, rather than being thrust straight in out of academia.

“I wanted to combine a light approach to flavourful food, with hints of worldly ingredients from Middle East and Asia, inspired by the fusion of Australia.” We check out the results at Buckle Up, Katie Gilroy’s new venture.

“My relationship with bureaucracy hasn’t always been comforting”. Irish artist Gary Farrelly has declared autonomy in the underbelly of Europe’s capital.