The most colourful gnocchi we ever have seen, a seasonal hash with serious effort, and not one, but TWO knock out sweet treats. These are the five dishes we'd most like to hunt down in the city this week...
1) Seasonal hash, Two Pups Coffee
Two Pups Coffee in the Liberties and now Fairview are true bastions of brunch, and we'd gleefully hand over our cash for their latest seasonal hash. This one has a base of confit garlic roasted potatoes, and is topped with a burnt butter cauliflower purée, roasted cauliflower florets, two poached eggs and finished with (read it with us), paprika and chilli hollandaise.
2) Chicken salad, Lotus Eaters
Calling this plate a salad might be a stretch, but it's cold and has a vegetable so we'll give Lotus Eaters a pass. Their poached chicken with cucumber in its highest form aka pickled, topped with peanut rayu is something we'd happily return this soon to try. Read our once over here.
3) Ube gnocchi, Hang Dai
This super colourful purple sweet potato ube gnocchi is Hang Dai's latest creation and it screams Samhain. They serve it with a soy mascarpone MaPo sauce (wowza), and the whole thing is getting us excited for spooky season.
4) Ferrero Rocher cake, Bakeology
Argentinian bakery Bakeology in The Liberties is best known for alfajores and empanadas, but their cakes shouldn't be overlooked. Their latest Ferrero Rocher version is a shortcrust pastry shell filled with chocolate cream, topped with crunchy hazelnuts, and it looks much better than its muse.
5) Fig and pistachio tart, Elliot’s
It's fig season baby and Elliot's have popped this little tart on our feeds to remind us how delicious these floral sticky fruit bombs are. As usual with this Dublin 7 bakery, these aren't likely to stay on the counter long, so get there early folks.
