Fothergills

This is a rating for just one of their products. For every birthday party, family gathering, bar mitzvah and funeral (ok, maybe not the funeral) at our house, I am dispatched to procure a Gâteau Dyanne from Fothergills. Comes in two sizes, big and guaranteed coronary. It is the most divine cake ever invented and well worth the nearly 30 quid for the heart attack version. Be warned, though, they’re sold frozen and need to be thawed out gently for a few hours before consumption so not for the lat minute impulse buy. As a dessert after a hearty family meal, it can’t be beat.

Cakealicious!
If you’re looking for a mouth-​watering cake for dessert, the selection here is delicious. How to choose between the almond tart and the lemon cheesecake you ask? Well you shouldn’t. Buy both, you know they’ll be finished in no time.
The selection of pre-​dinner nibbles is also plentiful. The cheese counter offers a myriad of tasty (and smelly) options and the shelves are stuffed with pesto, vinaigrettes, chutneys and coffee (the fancy stuff).
Fothergills also has yummy lunch-​snacks, like pizza slices and delicious sandwiches, where you can choose your own toppings (meat/​cheese/​veggies). The mushroom Vol-​au-​vent is also amaaazing!

Quentin is very right. a place like Fothergills brings to mind the saying \a second on the lips a lifetime on the hips!’, but what a glorious second that is. The shop is stocked with delicious goods, my favourite of course being the baked variety. The cupcakes are absolutely divine and make you want to go back for more. Since all the cakes/​pies/​pastries are all homemade, if you’re feeling really cheeky it’s a great place to buy a baked item and pass it off as your own … not that I’m saying anybody would ever do that, but let’s just say if you were in a jam! Without a doubt a goldmine for someone with a sweet tooth!

Awah common… I’m on a diet!!! It’s just not right that this sort of place exists; I have just put on 3 pounds just reviewing the photos I took!
Yes, this is the enemy of the short fat and balding male rapidly reaching middle age, it is Fothergills, a shop filled with everything from a frankly obscene selection of the most appetising pastries known to man — including those squares of short bread covered with caramel and topped with chocolate… Excuse me… I need a moment alone…
Ahem… cakes… they do cakes as well and jam — I took pictures of the jam shelf, just to show you they take this sort of thing seriously… and quite right too.

Yes, sometimes Its a tough station being a Yekp scout, dib dib. No only do we have to review all of Dublin’s most interesting and noteworthy places but more often then not try out some of the better restaurants and foodie places in this town.
On foot of this, we have a street in Rathmines that has not one but three deli’s. Fothergills is the smaller of the three and prob the least well stocked. As Food and Vine is a proper grocery/​health shop so Fothergills is always gonna be the poor cousin. As well as the grub and some tasty looking cakes in the fridge at the entrance, it has a deli and all the posh food you could ever want.

Having a child’s birthday party or a load of friends over for a fancy dinner? Fothergills covers all these areas.
Having grown up with it around the corner from me, I have a lot of experience of this bakery with its mouth-​watering food. My mum has bought us birthday cakes that we will cherish as a childhood memory, with our names and ‘happy birthday’ iced on top. But she has also been able to pop down and pick up a dessert for a dinner party, that always receives many compliments at the end of the night.
They sell rich chocolate cakes, apple tarts, lemon meringue pie and more heavenly desserts. You can drop into the store and buy these on the day or put one on order.
What is great is that they also sell lovely jams and freshly baked croissants, cookies and muffins.
The only problem I have about it (the reason it isn’t 5 star) is that there can sometimes be long queues (I guess not a bad thing if you look at it one way!) and the staff aren’t always the friendliest. Also sometimes the fresh items, croissants etc, aren’t always freshly baked. They still taste fine but you know other times they are better.