Lolly and Cooks

5 Stars for Cuteness
5 Stars for Niceness
and 5 Stars for making me a coffee that gives me the feeling that I’m being cuddled by a bowlful of sugar coated bunny rabbits.
Get your coffee or cakes here if you want to smile all day long!
Their soup is like getting a big warm hug from Hagrid next to a fire lit by his little dragon Norbert!
Sometimes when I get my lunch here, I need to balance out the extreme loveliness by getting a dirty chip butty from Abrakebabra after work.
Ugghhh dem feels!

This review is solely for the cupcakes. My lord. Have you had one? I insist you try. Last Friday I had the coconut raspberry one for my breakfast. If that isn’t the most stand-​up way to start your day I dunno what is. Except maybe a Mississippi Mudpie one?! Both have happened. Both brightened my day, gave me a spring in my step (sugar high) frosting on me lips after it was done (double value), and a calming haze after (sugar low). Also they’re pretty. Just. So. Pretttyyyyyy.

Granola with natural yogurt and two compotes, one mix berries and one apple, plus some fruits — perfect breakfasts!

I used to love Lolly & Cooks. Their cupcakes are unusual and different, along with other cakes etc.
However, more often than not lately I find I order a gorgeous looking cupcake only to discover it is stale/​hard. They may feel they are saving money by selling off older cupcakes but it just leaves me not trusting them and not bothering to buy their cakes anymore. They will lose customers if they carry on selling off stale cupcakes, I certainly won’t be going back again any time soon.

Love this place for lunch. Great food at the very affordable price. Menu changes every day, but I think it’s quite easy to find something you would like.
Never had a sit in, always getting take away. Staff is friendly and generally cool.

No better place to grab your work lunch — you will be afforded an array of hot food (one selection a day), salads, sandwiches, sausage rolls, soups… all from a tiny stall.
A queue tends to form but it moves very quickly with friendly and efficient service. Paid € 6.50 for a large beef daube and mash, so very good with generous amounts of beef!
Cupcakes are to die for too — so good that I got over a dozen specially made to spell out my proposal to my other half!

Stopped at St. George’s arcade and had a quick bite here. We shared the ham, cheese & tomato quiche and a salad. The quiche was so tasty and flavorful! Our salad was a spring mix and our server offered us a little bit of all the salads — we opted just for the greens and quinoa. Thought that was nice of her to allow us to taste all of the salads. So yummy! We left with full bellies and a smile.
Thank you! Staff is very sweet and courteous.

Has the best cupcakes in the fair city. The icing is so soft it melts right away without that artificial
sugary taste you get in other places. They also have a unique approach on the sausage rolls, also
worth trying.

Great location to grab a coffee to go and have a little walk around the Arcade! They offer a special, between certain hours you can take away a coffee and cupcake for € 3.50.What a steal. Great coffee, amazing cupcakes in every flavour under the sun, made fresh every day at their main shop.

This Lolly and Cooks stand in the George’s Market Arcade has seating for two or three max and I use it for takeaway lunches.
They have two pasta options each day in a very filly and good value medium size or the ridiculously big large size which I got once as I thought I was hungry enough. I wasn’t.
Other options include sandwiches, soup, a daily special which is above the stand on a board, several tasty salad options every day and the savage roll, which is amazing. I think they’re pretty good value as the food is filling and really quite tasty.
Then of course there are the cupcakes… lovely flavours and you can properly taste them. They’re not all fur coats no knickers like some of the icing heavy cupcakes that have appeared in the last few years which are very pretty to look at but utterly tasteless. The bun itself is moist, flavoursome and there is enough but not too much icing. Try the blueberry. It’s a thing of beauty.

Came here with a Rate My Area voucher to get a hot drink and desert.
I got an apple toffee cupcake which was pretty good – a bit dry of a cupcake and a bit tough of frosting, but better than most other cupcakes I have gotten from eateries before. I also got a hot chocolate which was really good – just warm enough that it warmed me up, but not so bad that it burnt me.
Service was good and I guess faster than it used to be (based on past reviews), but he was talking to other people about a management change.

There’s nothing better than a good friend, except a good friend with chocolate. Due to the depressing Irish summer days, not to mention we just got completely soaked we were in desperate need of a cheer up chocolate treat and a chat. We found shelter at the South George Street Arcade at Lolly and Cook to treat us with one of those incredible pretty looking and mouthwatering cupcake…
I had the gluten free Chocolate Fudge cupcake which was to die for… my friend took the Banoffi one and was totally satisfied with it too. I say 2,50 for such a treat is good pricing but even better they do a happy hour any hot drink and choice of cake for 3 euro Monday to Friday between 11−12am and 3−4pm I will definitely go back for this…
The staff was really friendly and passed on some extra napkins for our soaked-self’s and the million of chocolate crumbles ;)
After enjoying the cupcake the rain did not seem too bad after all and it brighten up our mood, like there is nothing a chocolate treat cant heal ;)

Just ordered a slightly over priced sandwich. While the ingredients looked super tasty, the bread was far from fresh — disappointing I’m afraid. While the service and menu is great, the food really let them down.

They used to have great cupcakes, fresh buttercream topping, inventive flavours, bit pricey but worth it.
Shame to see that standards have dropped. Got a blueberry cupcake the other day with tea, and the frosting was hard and the cupcake dry and cold. They must have been refrigerating older cupcakes and selling them off. Are people not buying enough any more?
For that price I expect a freshly-​baked, soft cupcake and not a stone. Probably won’t take the chance again.

Oh my good God… I have a fairly glutonish routine every morning where I head down to Centra for a) a sausage sandwich b) a sausage roll or c) two jambons… But that’s all changed since last week I discovered the most AMAZING sausage roll IN MY LIFE… I consider myself a connoisseur of pastry covered sausage meat, and I could never ever possibly insult my taste buds by having one other than Lolly and Cooks. They come in Three flavours, and I opted for Apple this time, soooo yummy, and they’re massive… I’m gonna turn into a real little porkie (pardon the pun) after this find… Also tried the curry chickpea soup, mmmmmmm!!! Great, because I have quite an unusual allergy to poultry, and more often than not most soups contain chicken bouillon for flavour so I was very pleased that I could savour this taste explosion too!!!

Yes i love my food, and i love when a place does one that one thing, you cannot resist. Lollys has it with the Savage Roll. The name says it all, not just a sausage roll, its more than that… Ask for it heated, get a coffee and sit down at the little counter and enjoy. If you have any room left, go for a raspberry and coconut cup cake. yum.

Upgrade! Their coconut and raspberry cupcake is now one of my favourites. Light sponge, delicious frosting with just the perfect amount of sweetness and a raspberry on top. Looks adorable, tastes even better. Yes, the mini ones aren’t as good value for money (€ 1.50 vs € 2.50 for average) but they are a guilt free bite of heaven…

There’s no faster way to feel treated like hand-​picking your own cupcake at Lolly and Cooks.
Oh sure, you can try and act the adult, ordering your delicious coffee and sausage roll (srs bsns in its own right) muttering over the dessert case «Oh, the kids will love these.» but let’s be honest… after all, you’re among friends… you’re here for the cake. Those frothy, brilliantly coloured, well dressed desserts that really aren’t desserts –just habit forming.
The problem isn’t just that there’s such a huge selection of these fresh-​baked angels, it’s that you can’t really take them with you. Just three steps out of George’s Arcade with two cuppy cakes and they’re gone… with just the flecks of icing at the corners of your mouth showing they were ever there.

I was needing a serious cupcake fix and made a beeline for this cute counter situated at the Drury Lane end of Georges Street Arcade. It was hard to decide which cupcake to get, and I even started to get distracted by the luscious brownies, coffee cakes and apple breads in the case. But I was there on a mission, and settled on the raspberry coconut while my friend got the ginger and lime.
Both treats were delish! The cake was moist and springy — a sure sign of freshness — and the frosting was rich and creamy. I found my cupcake, however wasn’t exactly as advertised. I expected a raspberry flavored cupcake with raspberry bits inside but what I got was a vanilla cupcake. There was a raspberry on top, but that didn’t seem enough to call it a raspberry cupcake. It was too delicious to be peeved about, so I let it go.
The ginger lime cupcake was very nice also, and it was more of a traditional gingerbread as opposed to a ginger-​flavored cake. The lime came from the lime icing on top, which was scrumptious.

I have just come back from New York and along with the jet lag I bring with me a weakness for really good cup cakes! And I have found my first favourite place already.
This counter has opened at the Drury Lane end of the arcade and it is just so cute and sugar coated. The cupcakes are the perfect balance of good moist cake and just the right amount of icing. The flavours are also spot on with blueberry one being just lovely!
The also do gluten-​free in flavours, double chocolate, raspberry and coconut, banoffee and ginger and lime. Their cupcakes are freshly baked in store, € 2.50 each or € 12 for six. They do soups and cakes too and you can sit and eat at the counter and look at all the cool ponce about the Arcade!