New Blood is one of the highlights of the Bram Stoker Festival which takes place this Bank Holiday weekend across the city. An arty party to top them all, New Blood is organised by Mary and John, aka Mary Nally and John Leo Gillen and features an array of installations, culinary treats and fancy libations, live music from Maria Somerville, This Greedy Pig on the decks and a dress code quoted as ‘Rihanna and FKA twigs run a club in The Matrix).

Throughout, the service is friendly and efficient, perfectly pitched for casual dining. Catch 22 should do well in the largely tourist and family trade of South Anne Street, though proper seafood enthusiasts used to shucking their own oysters and hammering crab claws may find the menu a little pedestrian.

We chat to Ashlie Brennan from the Meeting House to find out more about the restaurant, and also have chances to win a free brunch!

“When the French colonized Vietnam two incredible types of cuisine fused and they created some phenomenal dishes as a result”. Simon Cooper Béni Brasserie

September’s Bitesize features Raw Food plant based workshops, Cracked Nut Nutrition Balls, Newmarket Kitchen, Sett Food & the Dublin Coffee & Tea Festival

Weekender: |wiːkˈɛndə|– noun – what to do in Dublin this weekend.

Blocky, bold and sleek, Capulet and Montague’s artful jewellery has been gaining momentum since its inception in 2012 with recent accolades including the coveted Irish Fashion and Innovation Award for Jewellery Designer of the Year and the overall prize for Innovation. We met with Lisa McCormack, the Dublin-based designer and skilled craftsperson behind those attention-grabbing pieces.

Located in Baggot Street, newly opened café and patisserie Eathos specialises in healthy eating with an indulgent twist. Lisa Murrin who runs the café with her brother Peter talked to us about the global influences behind her new venture and her life-long quest to learn more about feel-good food.

Win tickets to see the Jordan Belfort, the Real Wolf of Wall Street, speak live in Dublin.

If you grew up in Coolock, Anne Byrne was a local celebrity – she is the owner of ‘The Van’. The crackled yellow paint of the van matched the colour of her house. It sat prominently in her garden, five doors down the road from my family home on Greencastle Crescent for my whole life.

Once again, Elaine Murphy has brought her trademarks of celebrating Irish produce in a relaxed and accessible setting, the cornerstones of her other businesses, The Woollen Mills and The Winding Stair.

Lock 6 is a very of the moment idea – a repurposed space (‘Construction Industry Federation’ reads the foreboding plaque outside), a cafe and bruncherie, a pop-up that’s gone and stayed-up. What Lock 6 transforms into on Friday and Saturday nights, the Canal Club, is an extension of lots of these ideas in utilising a space otherwise put to sleep for the day.

With an upbringing split between Galway and Hong Kong, Zoë Carol marries cultural and geographical influences with her sophisticated eye for design, creating distinctive yet collected clothing for the woman who takes-no-prisoners.

Eveleen Coyle’s Fab Food walking trails are journeys of culinary discovery, imparting insider knowledge of the best things happening food-wise in Ireland.

Curated by Gavin Wade, with Céline Condorelli and James Langdon, ‘Display Show’ is the first iteration of an exhibition project which seeks to examine the politics of exhibition and display.

Weekender: |wiːkˈɛndə|– noun – what to do in Dublin this weekend.

‘Because we change the menu every three to four weeks, and because there’s three or four other chefs in the kitchen there’s lots of ideas coming from every angle’.

July’s Bitesize features Fab Food Trails, Eat Street At Laya City Spectacular, Dublin Pop-Up at the Fumball Stables, IFWG inaugural Social Responsibility Award & a competition for Bloggers from Cono Sur