Munchies

This is a really great value spot for lunch, they have a few seats but mostly cater to the lunch at the desk/​in the park crowd. Massive range of sandwhiches/​bagels and wraps, all customisable and seemingly all really generously filled– A big range of options and always made fresh. The ingredients on offer all seem to have been well prepared and don’t seem to suffer from the droopey ‘i’ve been sitting here all morning/​since yesterday’ look that many sandwich deli’s fillers adopt. Friendly staff, quick, good value and convenient… and in a bit of town which can be none of the above.
**Presently Dawson street is a mess of roadworks and temporary fencing but I’m sure it won’t last forever!!!

Munchies is an Irish owned chain with several branches around the city. This branch on Dawson Street is fairly tiny but has enough room for you to sit inside or out on the pavement although I’ve never actually seen anyone eating /​drinking in.
The «munchie brunchie» (bacon, sausage, egg) which is available on gluten free bread has saved me from a hangover more times then I can count. They have a good range of sandwiches for breakfast or lunch and do a good coffee — not bad value either
The only negative of this branch (Dawson street) is the staff. I always say a big good morning and please and thank you and never get a response — they just stare back and look so incredibly unhappy and bored. They actually depress me ! I was a patron of the other Munchies on Baggot Street for years before this one opened and they are the total opposite — full of fun and smiles and very friendly.

Update now that Dawson St is going to be disrupted with Luas cross city works — Munchies is STILL good value, especially as you can ‘customise’ your sandwich with as little or as much as you want and it’s all great tasting stuff they use in the sandwiches — which is more than can be said for Costa down the street ! (See seperate review) Dawson st may be disrupted but it doesn’t mean your stomach needs to be, keep the faith !