The Butlers Pantry

Love it, worth the price — the rasberry roulade is awesome, the pies are fantastic and the staff is friendly and have given me discounts (without me requesting it) on several occasions.
The pies and cakes here make perfect individual treats (small slices) or the perfect gift when you go to visit the Mammy and Daddy (for example). They also make ready meals and have other things in the shop, but I am all about the cakes and the pies, mmmmmmmm…

I was looking for a gluten free cake and very happy that the Butler’s Pantry would obligingly order one in for me… and while it was expensive it was certainly worth it.
However I was in a bit of a hurry (desperately hoping I wouldn’t be clamped!) and the simple transaction seemed to take forever. The price of my cake was unknown and so a call had to be made to one of the other shops. And really it was all done quite quickly, but I found myself jigging up and down holding on to the urge to ask them to hurry up. Had I been at my leisure I might have perused the other tasty morsels on show but the nerves prevented it. i got my cake and didn’t get clamped — its the kind of story dreams are made of!

What a great little shop! unique too, in my eyes!
its such a small shop but it gives so much pleasure to my tummy and taste buds anyway, not so much my waistline!
the deserts in here really are divine, the coffee cake is my favourite, you just buy a big cake of it and start eating when you get hoe and you have to share it with everyone around you otherwise you will end up eating the whole thing yourself!
I love how its called the butlers pantry too, you always see films where butlers help out the master of the house in cheating and lying and covering up. that’s what this shop does too, it cheats in your cooking, it makes you lie and say you made it yourself and it covers up your inability to cook anything quite as tasty as you would get in this shop!

‘Common. Have a bite. Those chocolate-​chip cookies wont eat themselves.’
It’s hard to resist the temptation when passing this beloved shop in Donnybrook, which caters mostly to those with a discerning palate and money in the pocket. Since I am a fan of gourmet eatables, but on a tight budget, a trip to Butlers happens only on special occasions.
I was therefore thrilled to find out they have posted lots of yummy recipes on their website, like the duck salad, haddock and leek pie and Chocolate fondant.
You like to be a little creative in the kitchen? Wanna surprise the hell out of your friends? Yes? So, what are you waiting for? Hurry into the kitchen, man!

Although it may sound like the title of a saucy Victorian novel, it is in fact a saucy little food shop, where the ladies who lunch get the fixings for well, lunch. But also dinner parties, tea parties and other occasions where finger sized food is appropriate. A party after a gastric bypass surgery, for instance.
Dishes include chicken liver paté, crab cakes with lime and chilli aoili, coq au vin, beef stroganoff and loads of cakes and desserts — stick them in the oven and no-​one will ever know you didn’t make them yourself.

The following is the type of mistake you might make if you’re trying to break into the glittering south side social scene:
«Sa-​andr-​ah, dah-​ling, you remember that exquisite Valentine Cucumber Cream Canapé you served at the garden fête, you must give me the recipe. I’m having the ladies over for bridge, you see»
«Oh, don’t be so silly, Su-​us-​ah-​n, I ca-ah-n’t tell you, It’s a secret!»
Don’t let Sandra pull the wool over your eyes, and you didn’t hear it from me, but any and all fancy party food in South County Dublin that tastes too good to be believed comes from the Butlers Pantry.

Not the Butlers Pantry I usually frequent but in times of need (when the one close to home is sold out of beef wellington) I go here.
There’s nothing like a home cooked meal, particularly when you haven’t had to cook it… and if you are cleaver there is very little in the way of clean up too… yes I’m a pig, I’ve been known to eat from the foil packaging!
This is the place to go to impress a new date with your home cooking (just dont let him /​her see the packaging.