3FE's Grand Canal Street café is the Dublin coffee business's flagship location, with a menu covering breakfast through brunch and lunch. Its website offers table reservations and a click-and-collect service for this branch. Beyond the café, the company sells coffee and brewing equipment online, including blends prepared at its Dublin roastery.
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Coffeeangel has served specialty coffee from ten Dublin cafés since 2004, its beans roasted weekly by Bailies in Belfast. It donates five percent of profits to local biodiversity projects.
Best for Specialty coffee across ten Dublin cafés
Coffeeangel has operated in Dublin since 2004, building a ten-café chain around a straightforward supply-chain choice: rather than roasting in-house, its coffee is roasted weekly by Bailies in Belfast and delivered to Dublin within days, so the beans in the cup are rarely more than a week off the roaster. The company treats that short roast-to-cup window, more than any single blend, as its core differentiator.
The chain's newest location opened on Shelbourne Road, adding to nine existing Dublin cafés serving both house blends and rotating single-origin coffees. Coffeeangel also commits five percent of profits to local biodiversity initiatives — a specific, stated percentage rather than a vague sustainability claim — and offers free delivery across Ireland on orders over €35.
Two decades in, the chain's pitch remains narrow and consistent: fresh-roasted coffee delivered fast, from a named external roaster, across a small but growing number of company-run Dublin cafés.
INDUSTRY & CO is an independent Dublin design retailer combining homeware, jewellery, apothecary goods and a café. The range centers on homeware, jewellery, and apothecary items from local Irish designers and European, USA, with production associated with Ireland.
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Teeling opened at Newmarket in 2015 as the first new whiskey distillery in Dublin in more than 125 years, reviving distilling in the Liberties. Guided tours run every twenty minutes and finish with a tasting, backed by an on-site shop, the Bang Bang Bar and the Phoenix Café.
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