To get you in the spirit of Samhain, we've rounded up the spookiest and tastiest treats in this town for all you Hallow-Queen's out there. Eat, drink, and be scary because it'll be next year before you get another chance to get your hands on all of this...
Spooky bread, Noisette Artisan Bakery
These Jack-o'-lantern style loaves from Noisette Bakery in Rush are a very fun way to carb-load around All Hallows Eve. Never have we ever seen a spookier or tastier looking batch loaf.
Halloween croissants, Medialuna Croissanterie
Medialuna's black croissants are back and they look suitably killer. Stocked in spots all over the city, check their following list on their instagram page for places you can find these black beauties. Bone appétit!
Bram Stoker pie and Bloody Marys, No. 27 Bar & Lounge at The Shelbourne
In honour of Ireland's original spooky man, No. 27 Bar & Lounge at The Shelbourne are cooking Bram Stoker Pies (€25) inspired by a dish in Dracula, filled with slow cooked beef cheek, button mushrooms, bacon lardons and veggies. To pair with it they're shaking up a selection of Bloody Marys for €17, or you can have both for €39. The deal runs from 30th October through to Bram Stoker Day on the 8th of November.
Halloween afternoon tea, InterContinental Dublin
Dust off your broomsticks and head to Ballsbridge, where InterContinental Dublin are serving Halloween afternoon tea. There's a pumpkin ‘scary’ spiced cheesecake, ‘bloody’ blackberry bakewells, a milk chocolate ‘Hocus Pocus’ panna cotta and a ‘broomstick’ coconut cocoa bar with mango panna cotta. Running from 25th October until the 3rd November, their Halloween afternoon tea is €62, or €82 with a glass of champagne. Spooky and bougie.
Spooky Cookies, Slice
Slice in Stoneybatter are nailing the Samhain spirit with their cute spooky skeleton, ghost, and pumpkin cookies. Pair it with a pumpkin spiced latte for a one way ticket to Halloween heaven.
Beetlejuice Margarita, Saba
Not gona lie, Saba's special Halloween cocktail, the "Beetlejuice Margarita" is low-key terrifying. It's made with Espolon tequila, lime juice, sour apple and Midori to give it that luminous green glow, and check out those eyeball ice cubes. They're also running an “Embrace the Pumpkin” menu from October 24th to November 3rd so you can tick all your Halloween food boxes in the one place.
Pumpkin Spiced Latte, Tir Deli
Tir Deli on Hatch Street are serious when it comes to coffee, and if like us you detest the large coffee chains, but still want that Autumnal drink, this is the place to get your pumpkin spiced latté. They roast off the seeds and pulp from Irish pumpkins to make a spiced syrup, and combine it with Cloud Picker coffee and Village Dairy milk. Autumn coffee goals.
Pumpkin spice cheesecake, Meltdown
Pumpkin is this season's it fruit (yes you read that right), and it's currently in everything. These cute little ghostly pumpkin spice cheesecakes from Montague Street's Meltdown are bringing all the sweetness we want during spooky season.
Halloween cheese, Sheridans
This Halloween you really can have it all, including top cheese in spooky shapes. Sheridans are stocking Chällerhocker, a cow's milk Swiss-style cheese from Switzerland, the ghost-shaped 'Fabtome', and the bat-shaped Chauve Sourise. Your Halloween cheese board is now complete.
Halloween treats, Rustic Honey
Rustic Honey out in Cherrywood have all the Halloween sweet treats at the ready, including spooky orange iced cupcakes, bloody witch hat jammy dodgers, trick or treat chocolate fudge brownies, and gingerbread ghosts. Boxes of four are €10.50, which is scarily good value.
Nancy burger, Nancy Hands
We love Nancy Hands' nod to Halloween with their eerie version of their Nancy Burger. With a charcoal black bun and a slice of bacon as its tongue, it ticks all of the savoury Samhain boxes.
Pan de Muerto, Pickosito Northern Mexican Taquería
Ireland's not the only country with a national holiday dedicated to those who have passed. Mexico's version of Halloween - Día de Muertos aka Day of the Dead - is also being celebrated this week, and Pickosito Taquería on Mary Street are baking Pan de Muerto. The traditional circular Mexican sweet bread symbolises the circle of life, while the crossbones honour the departed.
Charcoal Latte, Brew Lab
Brew Lab are stepping up their latté art game with this spooky charcoal latte - a great coffee alternative for the spooksters that avoid caffeine. It's made with food grade activated charcoal so you can be Halloweeny and healthy at the same time.
Halloween Cocktails, Electric Circus
Electric Circus on Talbot Street are running a "Pick your Poison" menu in honour of Samhain, and this Blood Bag cocktail with vodka, peach schnapps, cranberry, orange and lime juice, sounds eerie-sistible.
