Busy Bean Cafe

I don’t actually know what they serve here but my imagination tells me they have the smoothest and most seductive coffees, complimentary watercress sandwiches and they arrange little watering cans with flowers sticking out of them on your table while you read the Sunday Business Post.
They have desserts you can only dream of, chocolate fondus with an all you can eat marshmallow policy.
A whole open buffet of shellfish that you can pick at while you’re waiting for your coffee to be made. You can crack open a king snow crab while sampling the latest Guatemalan roast.
Yes in my imagination the Busy Bean Café spares no expense in leaving you satisfied beyond all belief!

First time in this café, great prices for an Irish Breakfast!!!
I picked the ‘Jumbo’ for € 5. Got 2x toast, white pudding, a hash brown, black pudding, 2x sausages, fried egg and a rasher. Not too bad… Although if the plain black coffee (€ 2.50) had been included in this deal I would have given 5 stars and recommended to all my student friends!
The only thing I didn’t like were the sausages, not nice-​tasting at all, and oddly chewy. The rest of the fry was grand. And the puddings, both b&w, were divine!!! Will come back here! :)

I had breakfast and the food is as cheap as the quality and the cleanliness of the place. Stickie, stinkie and the food… soggy french toast! a very simple dish and unbelievably saltie bacon. They are in a perfect location, surrounded by great coffee shops like carluccios, coffee house… they only needed to make something unique that noone else around is doing like a little french cozy place with an amazing little menu with great french food, instead they have in the 10 square meter, an open fridge like in a supermarket just walking in so they make sure you get the cold first and close to the 4 tables they have and then all having an over all dirty look and not enjoyable meals. I walked in because I assumed it’d have something different. Definitely not going back.

Move over Stone Age, we are now in the Scone Age. The Raspberry Scone age to be exact, and what a time to be living.
I walked past this place quite regularly in the morning without going in but the scones visible in the window eventually lured me to my crumb-​laden doom. The Razzy scone is € 1.85 with butter and jam free. It’s a monster scone and you will be well and truly sconed after eating one.
Their breakfast sandwich of 2 sausages, 2 rashers and fried egg for € 4 take-​out is good stuff too. Especially since a basic rasher sandwich is € 3 sure you’d be mad not to shell out the extra euro for the full monty.
Edit 8^th April: Just finished another raspberry scone. It was awesome.

The Busy Bean is a great, welcoming wee café on Molesworth Street. It’s a bit off the main route but well worth the detour for the coffee alone. They tend to get very busy at around lunchtime though and the place gets packed very quickly.
They make great coffee and also do soups and sandwiches, which I haven’t tried yet. The prices are reasonable and the coffee for sure is good. So if you can get a seat this is a great place to take a wee break and enjoy your coffee. Leinster House– the Irish Parliament– is just down the road from here and it’s a good starting point for the Royal Hibernian Shopping Centre as well.

This place is always busy, they picked their location incredibly well. They are right opposite the bureaucratic mecca that is the passport office. A place were you spend hours waiting and staring at things angrily.
I got a soup, he got a sandwich. Reasonably priced, decent portions. The service was good considering how packed it was. Try and find a seat before you go up to order, that is assuming that you are not eating alone. If you are alone, make sure you can find a place first because it’s not fun trying to eat soup in a standing position.