Cathedral Cafe — Restaurant in Dublin

Food: The cappuccino glass is a bit old you can see from the handle that its color is off already, the foam was not set and fluffy but just small bubbles and runny. The tuna melt was a great choice of bread and the perfect cheese hasn't had a good combination of string strength and stretch on a melted sub in a long while the only downside was the lettuce was ruined it was too moist in the melt you never warm lettuce it's a kitchen rule everywhere and everyone knows that. Would replace a lettuce with a different ingredients to make that perfect tuna melt they have a huge potential with that choice of bread and cheese. As for the carrot cake the extra-sided yogurt was a bit too much for decoration and didn't add much flavor, sometime simple is better. The cake by itself tastes wonderful no need to add anything! Service : Took a bit longer to serve but it's just because that's only one person on the whole place not sure if it's usually the case or low on staff for the day but if that's one person on the entire coverage it's a bit too much to handle, I admire the idea for independence but busy days on like this or even on less sunny days it should be taken as a consideration, not to overwhelm yourself. Atmosphere : An old-style coffee place that has a cool and cozy feeling. Kinda makes you feel like you're entering a home and not a coffee shop. Which it's a unique style....

EDIT Owner has suggested I am mistaken in identifying Cathedral Cafe, which is incorrect. I visited in 2018 and my account is accurate. She mistakenly claims I mentioned the older woman “shouting”, or that I “had a dream there”. As she clearly takes the time to read all reviews, praising the good and gaslighting the bad, I would suggest she read them a second time and perhaps consider the criticisms more closely rather than patronising her customers. I didn’t think it was possible for my opinion of CC to get any lower, but the Owner has ensured it. It has been suggested the Owner is harvesting false 5 star reviews, which I cannot verify, but her responses here do not inspire confidence.

Wrong order brought to table twice (by an older woman who didn’t appear to work there?), then my juice went to the wrong table. Poached eggs were overcooked and watery, rest of dish not very tasty. Owner didn’t seem to care about the service or dish; carelessly tossed her hand in the air and said “Eggs… benedict” to the waitress (older woman), as though it was a first 😅 Shame as the place was a...

Unfriendly to anyone outside their own. Food was good to be fair. But the Iatmosphere and service was poor

: Can’t reply to their comment without doing it this way.

1. fair enough you may have many different people working for you. The weekend we went there was an older Irish woman and another who seemed Irish but may be part Eastern European

2. the issue was the “Mammy” who mainly did the coffee machine. She continually gave horrible looks towards my partner and made us feel very unwelcome

3. two regulars came in 15 mins after we had ordered. I know they were regulars because whilst we got, “what do you want?”, they got “ah hello Joe, how are ya, do you want your regular.” They even waited for 10 mins for his fried to arrive and he ordered the same. They both happened to order the same as us. Yet 10 Mins later. These two Irish men got there breakfasts and we had to wait another 20 mins to a point where my partner said we should just leave.

Rude and hostile considering people are coming in to pay them for food whilst on holiday. Good luck for the future. I hope dublin...