Housed in the 19th-century splendour of the former Weights & Measures Building on Harry Street, this is surely Dublin's fanciest offy. The cellars are jammed with some 800 fine...

Plush, elegant and painfully fashionable, BTs is popular with travelling celebs, rich kids and the local glitterati. There are more designer labels than you could shake a stick...

The first branch of the successful Italian deli and caffè chain to open outside of England, Dublin's Carluccio's does a good line in luxury Italian produce - from the fresh...

Not only is it impressive to look at (the building was formerly a John Rennie-designed tobacco warehouse) but this sleek new shopping centre is perfectly suited to Docklands'...

Despite an auspicious beginning (it was one of the first purpose-built department stores in the world when it was founded in 1853), Clery & Co has long since been overtaken by...

Fifteen minutes outside the city centre is the goliath of Dublin shopping malls, the Dundrum Town Centre. This pristine place is an unashamed temple to consumerism and gets...

The Dean & DeLuca of Dublin, F & B is the foodhall of choice among the city's fashionable professionals and fastidious foodies. Its warehouse vibe and rows of high shelves...

There was a time when the ILAC Centre was a byword for urban tawdriness, devoid of any charm, bereft of shops you'd actually want to set foot in. But those days are over....

With the kind of relentess mall lighting that makes you feel as if you are suspended in a permanent lightning flash, this starkly modern shopping centre may not be the most...

Always busy (and deservedly so), this appetising deli does a roaring trade in fine imported and own-made foods. Gorgeous fresh breads line the counter, salamis hang from the...

Occupying an enviable spot on busy Grafton Street with a smart black-painted storefront wrapping around the corner into quaint little Duke Street, this is a particularly classy...

Coolea, Desmond, Lavistown: these are just some of the wonderful Irish artisinal cheeses that have people lapsing into Wallace-like trances of dairy-induced ecstasy at this...

Looming over Grafton Street on the edge of St Stephen's Green, this overblown conservatory of a shopping centre makes up in convenience for what it lacks in charm. A wide...

Not to be confused with the cracking pub of the same name next door, this Whelan's is nothing more exciting than a reliable, city centre off-licence.