Boland's Coffee Shop — Restaurant in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown

Grossly underscoped for the hordes of people arriving on weekends. Far too few staff- and those that are there look stressed out of their minds. Queues are biblical: people have to rearrange themselves endlessly to make way for other customers searching in vain for somewhere to sit, or for staff trying to beat a path to the kitchen. The place is seething with bodies. By the time you get to pay- in my case for a bottle of water after 25 minutes- whatever goodwill you had has long since gone with the wind. My advice is to act like an Apple superfan awaiting the release of a new iphone: start camping out three days before. That way it should be relatively quick to get your coffee when the moment of...

Fine for what it is, but nothing on offer here is made with a mind towards quality. profit is very clearly the goal. The coffee isn't good and the milk wasn't steamed well. Cakes straight out of a box and probably defrosted too. Grand for a quick bite or drink if you're out for a walk and don't have any other choice, but there are plenty of good coffee shops in the very close vicinity that you'd be better off...

We called to see what time they were closing at and we were told 6pm. We got there at 5.20 and we wanted to sit down for a quick coffe and we were told that it had to be a take-away coffee. We told them we´d be 10 minutes max but they said they were ´tidying up already´. Disgraceful when I had called in advance and went to that place on purpose. Also coffee if absolutely vile and 5.80 for a very average...