Walter Mitty Coffee Project

Really good atmosphere with old school music, nice products, tasty coffees and efficicent staff!
You can write something on the wall, here customers create the decoration !
Just test it !

Very good coffee, extremely friendly staff, cool interior, benches outside, and a graffiti wall! Excellent.

Not to be even more pretentious than the normal Arts Block ilk to which this café was no doubt updated with the express point of attracting, I must admit that I take umbrage — YES, umbrage! — with its deceptive appearance; done up to resemble some sort of independent establishment with local loyalties, Walter Mitty’s is a part of the Café Sol chain.
Feat. the same scorched coffee, tasteless pastries, and okay food.
I’d say that Mitty’s should get bonus points for being less of an eyesore on Dawson Street than its previous incarnation or the nearby Starbucks, but all of that is ruined by the insidious suspicion that the whole thing was a bastardly marketing trial for the Walter Mitty film that came out recently. This suspicion was only heightened by the posters and «handwritten» quotes that plastered the walls up until its release.

This is a very cool coffee shop close to Trinity. One of the first things you may notice about it is the scribbled wall where you can immerse yourself while having your coffee.
I was afraid it was going to be too hipster even for my own taste, but the place is quite casual, the staff are very cordial and you may even end up chatting with someone from their diverse clientele — like cool college students or curious tourists — while sitting at the long tables.
They offer filter coffee along with the espresso based drinks, however for a place that has «Coffee» on its name the dark bean juice they serve here isn’t something that’ll blow your mind. It’s just ok, somewhat bland even.
That being said, I may go back if I’m in the area looking for a coffee, because the atmosphere inside is very inviting and not too noisy or fussy.
Ok coffee + nice people + cool room = 3 solid stars :)

I had a seriously tasty sandwich with some seriously nice salad here the other day. I like the overall feeling of being here but it wouldn’t be the best coffee shop in the world for stopping to read your book or anything. I’ll have to come again but from what I’ve seen so far, I like it.

Fresh, Cool, friendly and excellent value — I’ve stopped here a few time en route to work for a breakfast on the go and I’ve been very happy both times. Bakery item and a coffee for around € 4 is a great option, knocking a star off as the Tall cappuccino on visit two was a bit on the weak side but the short the first time perfectly hit the spot.

Slightly disappointed that the coffee wasn’t that memorable but the scone selection was! I had the pear :) and my boyfriend ordered the berry (it had a berry baked in the center!)
Love the interior wall and all its doodle loveliness.

went here on a mission to escape the corporate coffee shop chains (i still love you starbucks).
i very much fancied the interior design even down to the rusty chairs! i forgot to write something on the wall so i’ll have to add that next time. something original like « Unilocaling is helping» ahah, i crack myself up. (:
anyway on a more serious note, their prices seem pretty cheap. i bought a hot chocolate & some sort of biscuit, raisin chocolate cake & it was like € 4.45.
they also have sandwiches and a very small (i think two) selection of salads. i can’t comment on the sandwiches but they were pre-​wrapped so definitely not made fresh when you order.
my conclusion though is that it’s a very nice place to go for a coffee if you wanna escape a busy environment & is perfect for studying, which my friend & i did, ily math.

I really want to love this place for some reason; it’s close to where I work and the staff have been friendly when I’ve been in. But yet I’ve given it a go a few times now and I’m still on the fence of love or simply like.
The coffee is nice. The time I stopped for lunch I looked for a veggie option in their sandwiches, but all they had was a pretty standard goads cheese wrap so I opted for the tuna and cheddar. It was filled with with a pretty standard tuna mayo mix which was okay, but came with cous cous salad which was excellent. They have a varied pricing range for the sandwiches and different prices for toasting/​eat-​in/​take-​away — I had to ask because prices unfortunately aren’t displayed anywhere on the food counter (or at least haven’t been when I’ve been in!).
The décor is trendy, perhaps a little too much so, but where they really suffer is with a lack of seating. Couples and duos were squished and sharing small tables when I was there. It’s seems very much geared for groups of students which is unsurprising given it’s location, or for solo customers not eager to linger on the single couches down the back. It’s definitely not somewhere I would choose to go if I wanted a cosy catch up session with a close friend.
I’ll likely be back to try the other lunch offerings and maybe that’ll tip me one way or another!

This café is a nice little addition to Dawson Street.
Was impressed with the latte art. The barista somehow managed to make a teddy bear in my coffee!
The décor is relatively simple, but quirky. There is a white wall (well it was once a white wall) and markers of various colours hanging from string from the ceiling so that you can write whatever you like on the wall which is fun.

This place is where the Café Sol used to be on Dawson St but I definitely prefer this independent and quirky addition to the caffeine-​scene. The table and chairs appear to be’re-claimed’ and it looks like the floor was never finished (all part of the shabby chic look, no doubt). The wall behind me had lots of graffiti on it but I was too busy wolfing down my cinnamon and berry scone to notice the wall until I was leaving! I got a hint of cinnamon in the initial bite of the scone but no more… a shame, as I do like my cinnamon! The decaf Americano was good, and it was nice to get the option of an 8oz cup (€ 1.50); you can add milk yourself from the milk bottles placed on each table — nice touch! They have a loyalty card too. I also purchased a sandwich to take away (soft brown granary bread with proper crusts, and real tuna instead of tuna ‘paste’, mayo, cucumber, red onion, sweet corn and cheese). It was tasty and as if you’d made it at home, i.e. no nasty E numbers or unpronounceable ingredients. Walter, I like your game!

Adding a star to this review as yesterday I was coerced by my other half into trying the red berry tea… and it was bloody gorgeous! Only 2 quid as well — fair play to you Walter Mitty, I’ll be back to you for sure next time I’m in the mood for tea!

Can I take this place back to Edinburgh with me?
Walking the cold, cloud covered streets of Dublin I was looking for a café I couldn’t find and stumbled upon Walter Mitty. The little scones in the window winking at me, the faint sound of the whirr of a coffee machine, the interior — oh so cool. A mix of granite, long wooden table tops, and a big graffiti wall that was once blank save for the words ‘SO MUCH SPACE SO LITTLE IMAGINATION’ but which has since been covered in colourful graffiti, by the pens hanging on strings from the ceiling.
I wandered in and asked if they had wifi, and that I would take a chair. «A cappuccino?» «No, sorry, that’s my accent, a chair.» A bit of bumbled confusion, but in the process, I realised the staff and baristas are ridiculously friendly, quite cute in their confusion, and welcoming.
Oh and what’s that? Green tea? Oh wait, green tea with ginseng? I was drawn in by the alluring aroma of coffee. I stayed for the green tea with ginseng — the perfect coffee alternative for a morning pick me up.
Breakfast specials such as porridge with Irish oats, yoghurt with compote and toast. Sandwiches laid out, almost hidden by the stacks of very thickly-​cut cakes. Oh gosh yes.
The wifi workd, the seats were comfy, and it’s warm.
The sandwich I had for elevenses? A pastrami, emmental and saurkraut splendour. Really big and filling. But oh, if only I’d waited till 12noon when the lunch options came out. Quiche, fritatta as big as my face, salad — it all looked fresh and really healthy and delicious.
This is my kind of coffee shop. If I lived in Dublin, I’d come here often — and if I’m visiting again, this is likely where I’ll go.

I must confess that I was on my way to Fixx when I encountered this new café. Always one to sample a new coffee place and having a shameless addiction to that jitter-​inducing substance I went in to have a look.
What struck me was the cool exterior. It has a really retro (as much as I hate that word) look and is nothing if not original. The inside is no less bonkers. The interior looks like a café and an art installation had a lovechild with a big wall on the left filled with doodles and phrases written in marker. The floor looks like they left it as-​is with no carpet or wood but just the bare concrete. Not sure if that was intentional or they haven’t gotten around to flooring the place yet.
As for the coffee I am sad to say I was underwhelmed. It was slightly too bitter and the cup was a little too small. No doubt to «preserve the flavour» or something similarly pretentious. While it earns an extra star for originality, Walter Mitty’s nonetheless smacks of coffee elitism.