East & Dublin

A treasure chest of everything you could possibly want with witty and pretty children’s clothes, excellent food goods from the renowned Avoca Café, elegant knitwear and original crafts.

Part of Dublin’s charm lies is its excellent selection of hip, elegant boutiques with eclectic designer names giving each a highly individual feel. Try Tulle in the George’s Street Arcade; Costume on Castle Market; Ave Maria on Clarendon Street; Rococo in the Westbury Mall; and Smock in Old City, Temple Bar.

A massive 3,500sq ft showroom filled with high-quality handcrafted crystal.

Try the inner Dublin suburb of Ranelagh for chic clothes stores, maternity wear, and delis; Donnybrook is good for upmarket boutique Havana as well as delis, galleries; further south Blackrock has a cluster of good clothes shops and a weekend market; Dun Laoghaire is a bustling town with a rake of clothes shops, two shopping centres, and a good weekend farmer’s market in the People’s Park; the nearby Glasthule is now a buzzy shopping destination with famed deli Caviston’s.

Excellent women’s designer store stocking an eclectic range of top-name labels.

As well as producing good quality silverware with cutlery, gifts and jewellery, Newbridge also creates an extensive range of homewares, as well as a quality range of glass and cutlery from Irish designer Paul Costelloe.

A craft and coffee shop housed within a recently restored 19th century building.