The Butlers Pantry

Healthy, wholesome interesting take away food. Staff are knowledgable about food available. Coffee is excellent and service is always friendly and pleasant. Quite a frequent customer here the staff is always so pleasent

To start with I’d like to note that my next statement might seem a tad obvious given the star rating I’ve given but here goes: I like the Butlers Pantry!
And why, you might well ask? Because every single thing about it is nice. The food, the service, the fact that it hasn’t turned into a big shop selling crap and has rather stayed as a small shop selling good things. It is a shop that allows for buyers remorse only in the sense that you wished you’d bought more.
I realise at this point that I should probably talk about the food but frankly that’s been already so I won’t bother. What I will say is that they have the best, most incredibly phenomenal chocolate brownies that the world has ever known. Also the coffee they sell is good stuff too!
On another note the staff are perfectly wonderful. They are friendly, they are helpful and they actually seem to enjoy working there. Having said that, if I got to sit with chocolate brownies all day I’m fairly sure I’d enjoy it too :)
You might wonder why I only gave 4 stars. The answer is that they don’t appear to do macaroons any more, or at least they didn’t the last time I went in. A small thing but a thing nonetheless.

Scones.
Goats cheese tartlets.
Focaccia.
Pâté.
Delivery.
Fabulous.
With just enough space for the deli case and drinks stand, the tiny shop that is Butler’s Pantry on Sandymount Green seems hardly the place to find an artisinal baguette des campaigns and rich chicken liver pâté; but take a peek at the specials or get a whiff of their fresh baked bread and it all becomes clear –this is the stuff of which dreams are made of.
For local lovers of the freshest, warmest scones (with jam and butter), ring up first thing in the morning for the inside tip on when to expect delivery from Butler’s larger bakery. Then rush down, buy up a bag full and get thee back to bed with a cuppa cha and one of those crumbly, buttery masterpieces.
While most on-​site offerings are geared towards the lunch crowd (its position on the green makes it ideal for stocking up on picnic treats) customers can also order multi-​course meals from the extensive menu.
Prices are dear if thought of as takeaway, but as restaurant quality meals almost everything is well priced.
A further note for carb lovers; as the website now attests, the good souls at Butlers are baking that incredible bread on Sundays –just what your fry up was waiting for.

CRUD!!! The inlaws are coming to dinner in 47.5 mins and I totally forgot and went out shooting pool with the lads instead! I promised «er indoors» I’d create a mouth-​watering feast fit for royalty and having looked in the fridge there is very little I can do with half a tin of catfood, a mouldy cucumber and jif squeezy lemon… or is there… no, no there really isn’t.
Not to worry. In sandymount is a shop designed for just such occasions, The Butlers pantry make all their own foods, put them into neat little foil trays and give you very exact cooking including instructions on how to make it look like you did it yourself… well, reheating instructions, you’ll have to do a bit of acting too.
They also do a range of deserts including pies and cakes that look very much the way you would expect them to look if you were an accomplished pastry chef at home… not processed, home-​made. These desserts are very very good, do not tell mother in law you made it yourself, if she believes you she’ll ask for the recipe or worse still want to watch you recreate your masterpiece.
The shop is not particularly cheap but the foods are really good, pricing think reasonable restaurant (12 — 14Eur per main including sides)